Jason@Tree

Director of music videos and commercials, please visit www.treefilmworks.com

New music video for Throw Me the Statue "Hi-Fi Goon" (Secretly Canadian).
Check it out at stereogum.com

Robbers on High Street and Lemon Sun (unsigned) videos added to MTV/Vh1/MTVU September 2008

Directed a TV identity for Fuel TV with a headless junkbot searching for his thoughts.

Represented for Commercials by Window Productions in AU

Work as a producer and as a director through Tree Filmworks

Favorite Music
Nirvana, Silversun Pickups, The Strokes, Caribou, Interpol, Yeasayer, Air, Belle and Sebastian, Jens Leckman, Bonobo, Quantic, Blonde Redhead, Cat Stevens, Flamming Lips, Midlake, Nick Drake, Phoeinix, Spoon, Animal Collective, The Teeth (RIP), Bill Ricchini, Paole Conte, Shins, Robber's on High Street, T-Rex, Slim Gailard, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, David Bowie, M.I.A., M83, Tapes' n Tapes, MGMT, Wilco, Grizzly Bear, Santogold,The Rapture, The Rolling Stones, Doves, Jon Brion, and an old song Willie Neson and Dolly Parton sang together.

Favorite Talent
George Greenough, Stanley Kubrick, Jack Johnson, Darren Aronofsky, William Eggleston, Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jeff Bridges

Interests and Activities
Love to surf, shoot photos and snowboard. Big on travel when time and money allow. Catching movies, coming up with ideas, writing treatments, shooting, editing, stop-motion animation, working with friends, surf cinematography, learning new things like large format photography. Getting focused, getting mental, hanging, flipping through magazines, architecture, getting heavy on the net with blog searches, road trips to New Mexico and Colorado. Learning how to build a house, getting primal, hope to live off the grid one day, giving back, taking a hike along the beach in Passamaquoddy or the old sunset loop.

Favorite Movies
The Warriors, The Birds, Creature from the Black Lagoon (underwater parts are amazing), La Dolce Vita, Rebel Without a Cause, Pickup on South Street, The September Sessions, Rosemary's Baby, The Virgin Suicides, The Shinning, A Clockwork Orange, Cutie Honey, The Graduate, Trainspotting, Chung-King-Express, Hard Boiled, Belle de Jour, The Goonies, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Dr. Strangelove, Paris, Texas, Edward Scissor Hands, Rushmore, The Big Lebowski

Favorite Books
The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Rum Diaries, Fight Club, Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World, Ham on Rye, 1984, A Brave New World, White Noise, Blood Meridian, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Down and Out in Paris and London, Moby Dick, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, The Road