I was born into it. Fifth generation Montanan.

Ian grew into the wilderness the way you grow into a language: not by studying it, but by getting lost until you stop noticing you're lost. The camera was a way to translate, interpret, and communicate what I see.

Then I left.

Not to escape, but because staying felt like surrender to the worlds anomalies and ambiguities - and filmmaking was the key to unlock.

Resolving a decade of beautiful, disorienting global filmmaking has been a re-dedication to storytelling in the American West.

"Where a River Runs Through It"