Bear Damen is a filmmaker in heart and soul, living for the story and the image. He’s as lovingly obsessive over performance as he is over the use of lenses, film stock, and other technicalities of the medium.
While he’s always looking for a certain hypnotic quality on the visual surface of his films, the more visceral stories manifest itself in the deeper layers of his work. Through this, Bear knows how to leave an everlasting impression in the gaze of the viewer.
