Andy had an amazing eye, human being, inspiration…
I’ve known Andy since 1999 when he placed an ad in the Village Voice “looking for a Dutch speaking editor” to help him with a planned documentary about his father. Which turned into his first film Urk that I edited in 2001. He worked at Ogilvy to make money to pay me and I worked on his Avid in his apartment.
On Sept 11 he came home to show me the papers that he found in the street that blew out of the trade center.
As fellow filmmakers we shared many adventures, ups and downs in our lives.
In 2004 he was “unembedded” in Iraq filming 2 documentaries again self financed with his advertising work and I made a blog from the emails he send to me and his other friends.
Go here for Andy in his own words from 2004 when he was working in Iraq.
(scroll to bottom for chronological order)
In 2006 we hiked in the Catskills a lot with a big group of friends.
