H. Paul Moon

H. Paul Moon This is an occasionally updated news stream featuring the film work of H. Paul Moon H. whose work concentrates on the performing arts.

Paul Moon (zenviolence.com) is a filmmaker, professor and attorney based in New York City and Washington, D.C. He teaches editing, and manages a network of online communities at focuspulling.com and docofilm.com that keep pace with new camera technologies and documentary news. Major works include "Sitka: A Piano Documentary" (zenviolence.com/sitka) about the craftsmanship of Steinway pianos, and "

Quartet for the End of Time" (quatuor.xyz) about Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent WWII composition. Moon's first feature, an acclaimed and award-winning documentary about the life and music of American composer Samuel Barber (samuelbarberfilm.com), premiered on PBS, and he is currently finishing another documentary feature about Western poetry (westdocumentary.com). His ongoing bicentennial multimedia works on poet Walt Whitman are featured at whitmanonfilm.com. Moon's latest film is an operatic adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (scroogeopera.com), awarded "Critic's Choice" by Opera News as a "thoroughly enjoyable film version, insightfully conceived and directed" with "first-rate and remarkably illustrative storytelling."

Thanks to VIDEOBARDO for including "Beside Myself" in their 29th festival
11/09/2025

Thanks to VIDEOBARDO for including "Beside Myself" in their 29th festival

11/03/2025
10/31/2025

This might be the perfect way to spend Election Night, and we've got a resonant lineup for you of music, poetry and film.

Shooting the Brooklyn Bridge on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K in open gate format with 50mm Blazar anamorphic at ultra...
10/09/2025

Shooting the Brooklyn Bridge on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K in open gate format with 50mm Blazar anamorphic at ultra-wide 1.8x aspect ratio. Sadly, there's a tiny bit of vignetting with this EF-mount lens (and many like it), but I'll easily crop that out in post. Sadly, the BMCC6K continues to lack any desqueeze options besides 1.6x (but customers have been begging for this extremely simple technological fix for well over a year, ever since the camera's launch).

10/05/2025

This is the complete, uncut interview with renowned author and historian Michael Wallis that I filmed on October 27, 2012 in Altenburg, Missouri. You'll see…

09/29/2025

Tomorrow/Tuesday: Duo della Luna's "Dreaming Poetry Into Music" with new musical settings of poems by immigrant Dreamers (undocumented and asylum-seeking youth), and poetry from around the world. Tickets are $5 off for the 7:30pm event when you use promo code YAWP at bowerymusic.eventbrite.com - and BONUS: there will be a free workshop that same day at 4pm for all poets to bring their own written words and hear them in music (with a recording to bring home). See you there!

09/14/2025

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