Jon Goldman is a filmmaker, animator and media artist. Since training at MIT?s Center For Advanced VIsual Studies in the 1980s where he received his Masters, Jon has produced documentaries and short
form animations for organization such as Al Jazeera International, WGBHLAB BOSTON, and the
Discovery Channel. For Al Jazeera He produced WILMA?S WARNING about the Katrina/
RITA storm surge and its role in high toxicity in the gulf region.
His newest independently produced film LAYERS OF LASAGNA about a comedian named
David Lasagna is currently circulating in the festival circuit.
As a media artist his work has been exhibited around the world primarily in the form of
large-scale inflatable sculpture that perform. These large scale events have been produced
for DisneyWorld, The Trump Taj Mahal, ABC-TV to name a few. Jon?s work is in the permanent
collection of the Smithsonian?s Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design. His work
is featured in several books including The Look of the Twentieth Century. He has been
called a digital renaissance man by the Boston Globe.
Jon Goldman received his undergraduate degree from Connecticut College with a B.A. in
Theater focusing on Directing and Design. While there he studied at the Eugene O?Neill
Theater Center?s National Theater Institute where he met Jim Uhls. He continued his work
in London, England, directing original theater works and staging environmental theater
productions there. But it was at MIT that he studied filmmaking with one of the father?s of
cinema verite, Ricky Leacock ( cinematographer for Robert Flaherty?s LOUISIANA STORY)
and computer animation with Betsy Connors.