H. Paul Moon | Filmmaker

H. Paul Moon is based in Washington, D.C.  Via the moniker Zen Violence Films, he focuses on music and visual art documentary profiles.  He also creates experimental films of cities, landscapes and contemporary dance.  He teaches courses on documentary editing to emerging filmmakers, and manages a network of online communities at focuspulling.com keeping pace with newest camera technologies, lately virtual reality.  His body of work includes short and feature-length documentaries, dance films, and experimental cinema, regularly featured at film festivals worldwide.  He worked as a small camera specialist for a Paramount feature film starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, and as cinematographer for director Josephine Decker’s film in collective:unconscious.  His recent films include Sitka: A Piano Documentary, about the craftsmanship of Steinway pianos, and a feature-length documentary about the life and music of American composer Samuel Barber. He is currently finishing another documentary feature about Western folklife, cowboy poetry, and the American frontier.