CV
JAMES PARK SIEWERT
11 Hazelwood Ave.
Newark NJ, 07106
(510) 717-1331
james@glasseyepix.com
His personal work moves fluidly between live action and animation, as well as between narrative and experiential film. He is currently in post-production on his second film Appendectomy, an experimental drama about a young woman whose consciousness becomes untethered from her body while on hold with a collection agency.
EDUCATION
BARD COLLEGE — Film and electronic arts - August 2009 - May 2014
Received Sidney Peterson Award for Experimental Filmmaking
BARD COLLEGE — Philosophy - August 2009 - May 2014
Received Natural Philosophy Award
DIRECTING
November 2025 - “Tender”, Stop-Motion and Live Action Video 4:15
https://vimeo.com/glasseyepix/tender
March 2024 - “A Daisy Chain for Satan”, Live Action and Animated Video 3:53 Directed with Ewan Creed
https://vimeo.com/918685127
August 2022 - “Go On”, Animated Video, 4:54
https://vimeo.com/glasseyepix/sonicboom Vimeo Staff Pick
July 2022 - “Lady”, Music Video, 3:44, Directed with Annelyse Gelman and Auden Lincoln Vogel
https://vimeo.com/glasseyepix/lady
August 2020 - “TV”, Animated Video, 4:17, Directed with Jason Filmore and Simon Davis
https://vimeo.com/446481716 Vimeo Staff Pick
May 2020 - “Things Like This”, Animated Video, 4:05
https://vimeo.com/glasseyepix/thingslikethis Vimeo Staff Pick - Best of the Month
February 2020 - “Bed of Nails”, Short Video, 5:15
https://vimeo.com/glasseyepix/bedofnails
August 2019 - “AOKOHIO”, Visual Album, 31:46, Directed with Miles Joris Peyrafitte and Auden Lincoln Vogel
https://youtu.be/8pLGXbRs5dw
January 2018 - “Moto Komplete”, Video, 5:16
https://vimeo.com/glasseyepix/moto
April 2017 - “I Might Shout”, Video, 5:31
https://vimeo.com/glasseyepix/swoon
January 2016 - “The Past Inside the Present”, Short Film, 12:12
https://vimeo.com/188450930 Vimeo Staff Pick, Premiered at Slamdance and played 20+ film festivals
ANIMATION
https://vimeo.com/833339366/996c3ffdbb?share=copy
December 2022 - “NWA”, Music Video, 3:52, Directed by Jason Filmore and Simon Davis
https://youtu.be/SLqcPnKXolo
December 2022 - “Curtain is Closing”, Music Video, 3:55, Directed by Eva Louise-Goodman and Leah van der Werff
https://vimeo.com/772427207
June 2022 - “Black Tame”, Music Video, 3:54, Directed by Jason Filmore and Simon Davis
https://youtu.be/4jE9RphsR4c
October 2021 - “99 Jackals”, Production Company Logo
https://vimeo.com/glasseyepix/jackals
July 2021 - “Liquor Store”, Music Video, 3:05 Directed by Haley Appell and Daniel Iglesias Jr.
https://vimeo.com/578184062
March 2021 - “Adidas Originals”, Advertisement
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNsEXgeDBX7/
January 2021 - “A Small Antelope Horn”, 2:17, Advertisement, Directed by Jason Filmore and Simon Davis
https://vimeo.com/503130288 Vimeo Staff Pick
October 2020 - “Miracles”, Music Video, 3:31, Directed by Mick Soiza
https://vimeo.com/468307491
April 2020 - “Pink Dust”, Music Video, 3:42, Directed by Jason Filmore and Simon Davis
https://vimeo.com/patrickgolan/pinkdust
September 2019 - “Depraved”, Feature Film, 114 minutes, Directed by Larry Fessenden
https://youtu.be/kYc8SJ5Olbg
CINEMATOGRAPHY
https://vimeo.com/772427207
October 2021 - “Size Up”, Short Film, 15:36, Directed by Rigo Garay
https://vimeo.com/376694992
September 2019 - “Depraved”, Feature Film, 114 minutes, Directed by Larry Fessenden, Co-cinematographer: Chris Skotchdopole
https://youtu.be/kYc8SJ5Olbg
March 2018 - “The Ranger”, Feature Film, 77 minutes, Directed by Jenn Wexler
https://youtu.be/ONPclNVfqog
May 2017 - “Ilaria”, Short Film, 15 minutes, Directed by Minka Rose Bleakley
https://www.minkableakley.com/portfolio/ilaria
March 2017 - “Like Me”, Feature Film, 80 minutes, Directed by Robert Mockler
https://youtu.be/aKg60N8L0qA
September 2015 - “The Egg and the Hatchet”, Short Film, 12:55, Directed by Chris Skotchdople
https://vimeo.com/140004657
PRESS
https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2024/flux-fall-2024
July 2022 - Trippy new Panda Bear and Sonic Boom video subverts well-worn MTV tropes - https://www.creativereview.co.uk/panda-bear-sonic-boom-animated-music-video-go-on-pinball-james-siewert/
March 2022 - GEP Mindoc: James Siewert
https://youtu.be/AKrRIXtxBtk
September 2020 - Why rubberband. Shot Four Miles of Paper Images for Lewis Del Mar’s Animated Music Video ‘TV’
https://directorsnotes.com/2020/09/10/rubberband-tv/
April 2017 - Short Films in Focus: "The Past Inside the Present”
https://www.rogerebert.com/features/short-films-in-focus-the-past-inside-the-present
March 2016 - Slamdance Spotlight “The Past Inside the Present”
https://youtu.be/XbmFkXN8WRQ
Last Updated 12.25.2025