Michael Galinsky

Michael Galinsky is a filmmaker, musician, photographer, and author. His first project "Malls Across America," a photographic exploration of mall culture at the sunset of the 1980's, was recently published by Steidl. After making that photographic journey, he started a band, Sleepyhead, and spent the next decade recording, touring, and documenting the underground music world in photos and on film. With partner Suki Hawley, he made the feature films "Half-Cocked" and "Radiation" (Sundance '99). Concurrently with Radiation, he published "Scraps," a book of photos and text about the '90's indie rock scene.

They moved on to documentaries and partnered with David Beilinson to create the production studio Rumur. Together, they have made a half dozen documentaries including "Horns and Halos" and "Battle for Brooklyn" - both of which were short-listed for the Academy Award in documentary. Michael was the recipient of a Guggenhiem Fellowship in film in 2012. He and Rumur are in post production on two longitudinal documentary projects, "The Story of Pain" which examines the stress/ illness axis, largely through the work of Dr. John E. Sarno, and "Conception" which deals with the ideas of nature vs. nurture.