I’m a French / Russian film director, DP, steadicam op, still photographer (since 1997), art director, web / graphic / product designer, co-producer, co-founder of Ektaron & Idelekka and… wait, what does all that have to do with programming?!

I’ve lived with computers and have been programming “stuff” since 1989 (in Pascal ‍♂️ in then-Soviet Moscow). I’ve been working with JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Bash, AppleScript, XML, JSON, SQL, HTML, SVG and CSS… and bits of C and C++.

To me, programming is a tool, just like a camera. So I’ve written a ton of code, but mostly for:

• proprietary web sites
• back and front end solutions to image and video related problems we encounter in the cinema and photography world

Hence, not very open-sourceable or universally applicable (UTF8 IPTC recodes? AfterEffects ECMAscripts? PCM audio meta-data storage for year-long feature film shoots?)

I’m particularly interested in any tech that helps us automate tasks, improve user experience (code-driven UX design)… so we can focus on the few advantages we still have over machines: the newly created, non-regenerated stuff.