Work in Films
- He worked as a music consultant for the 2003 film, School of Rock.
- The song "Happy Days" was featured in the Harmony Korine film, Julien Donkey-Boy.
- He scored the 2002 film Love Liza, directed by Todd Louiso.
- He has also scored films by Werner Herzog, Olivier Assayas, Shinji Aoyama, Kōji Wakamatsu and others.
- His own short films have been part of the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2005 Rotterdam Film Festival.
- His first three full-length albums for Drag City are named after three successive films by director Nicolas Roeg: Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession, Eureka, and Insignificance. His fourth Drag City album, The Visitor, is named for an album that appears within Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth, recorded by the film's protagonist Thomas Jerome Newton.
- He scored Kōji Wakamatsu's 3-hour long film United Red Army in 2007.
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