David Garden, MFA, Senior Lecturer at the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) School of Film and Television, teaches cinematography and film production. Garden spent twenty-one years working as a camera technician in the Los Angeles area motion picture industry. As cinematographer Garden photographed two 35mm feature films: Blue Skies Are A Lie (which was written and directed by Picture Sequence collaborator Gregory Ruzzin) and Almost Salinas.
David brings a scientific, technical and artistic approach to his courses. He constructs motion control, time-lapse camera equipment and has been using been using these systems on his own documentary and stop-motion projects as well in collaboration with other LMU faculty on significant university projects. One of which won a special merit award from the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. These recent collaborations have led to the design and construction of two “retro” vintage motion picture display systems, a tachyscope and a mutoscope. These projects were installed in the LMU art gallery and the LMU library.
David brings a scientific, technical and artistic approach to his courses. He constructs motion control, time-lapse camera equipment and has been using been using these systems on his own documentary and stop-motion projects as well in collaboration with other LMU faculty on significant university projects. One of which won a special merit award from the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. These recent collaborations have led to the design and construction of two “retro” vintage motion picture display systems, a tachyscope and a mutoscope. These projects were installed in the LMU art gallery and the LMU library.