The Guitar

a story about the instrumental stuff of life

After years of neglect left my antique guitar in need of significant repair, a luthier’s workshop offered me the unexpected opportunity to explore the parallels between my instrument and personal creative journey in this meditative short film.

*PLease note: being submitted to various film festivals, The Guitar is not available to the public. Please contact me directly with viewership requests.

It started with a tweet.

A tweet that Brian Koppelman — a writer I respect and consider as a mentor - boosted. I needed help fixing a guitar I’d neglected for far too long and didn’t know where to begin. His kindness connected me to a bunch of kind souls who all said the same thing:

“Go to Charley’s.”

So I went. And, there I found a magical little workshop where my Morning Pages practice (another thing BK turned me on to) collided with my filmmaking instincts.

I was itching to shoot something in there. But what?

When I began, I didn’t know the film would take me nearly two years to finish. Art is like that, I guess. Sometimes, even if the idea arrives in a flash, the process requires gestation. Time to foment. Such is the tug ‘o war between inspiration and resistance.

“Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”

—Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

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