David Ullman

Although I am a film & video professional, this page focuses on my personal work. Click the dropdown menu under "Film" above for pages devoted to specific projects.

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Over the last 25 years, I've fallen into the practice of producing personal documentaries centering around my creative exploits. Early on, I was finishing making-of films started by other people profiling these independent art projects (Inertia: Remaking THE CROW). Other times, the documentation was planned from the outset and vital to the facilitation of the very undertaking chronicled by the cameras my pals and I turned on ourselves (Finding Rhythm). In 2017, I put together a documentary I knew no one but myself and a couple of the guys involved might ever see—just because I was so intrigued by the idea that a friend of mine had filmed a week-long tour with his band a decade before and never once looked at the footage (NJs and The Jeff 2008 Tour Documentary).

 

These ventures are sometimes vain, self-aggrandizing, and esoteric. They can also be critical, self-deprecating, revealing, and universal. I’m starting to see these stories as more than just those of myself, my friends, and family. More and more, I'm realizing there are countless creative people like us all over the world toiling in obscurity. They work long hours at their jobs and also make time for their art. These are folks who stay up late and get up early to tell their stories—and those of their friends and family—stealing the hours from comfort to create what they see, hear, and feel in their hearts.

 

I've been thinking a lot about the constants of music and filmmaking in my life as vehicles for self-expression, self-knowledge, and social connection. Over the last few years, I’ve been getting serious about a feature-length documentary that explores these themes called The Furious Light.