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ABOUT PAULI grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When I was 13 years old my older brother brought home a Sex Pistols record and my entire musical universe changed. I was so inspired by the energy and the accessability of the music, I threw away my Kansas albums and started a band. My Father worked in advertising and I developed a fascination with media. My Mother is a dancer who studied and taught dance and movement. I see weddings as a dance that i choreagraph through camera movement and editing. All of this has shaped my style, the energy and enthusiasm of punk rock, the beauty and poetry of movement and the power and impact of modern media.Power and ImpactWhile in college, I saw the movie Koyaanisqatsi and it realigned my perception of art. I saw how music and media could be used in new ways to become the new language of art, and I wanted to be a part of it. I enrolled in film classes, did some experiemnting with the medium and got my degree in Mass Communications.The third AHA!After College I fell into advertising, working as a graphic designer and art director. In 1995 I saw a presentation on creating web pages with HTML. The ability to include images with test was the big innovation at the time. Here I had my third major "AHA!" (the first was the Sex Pistols, the second was Koyaanasqatsi). I saw past the limited content to the network underneath and it's potential. I knew the content would evolve and catch up and I wanted to be part of it. Boom and Bust I started creating websites and web media full time and founded Spiremedia in Denver. We went through the boom when the fish were jumping in our boat, and the bust, when we had to make hard decisions to keep afloat. We pulled through but my job was so far from the creative duties that I loved, I had to re-focus so I sold my half to my partner. The company is still going strong, a testament to the quality that we created there.The Fourth AHA!I took time off and went traveling. I carried a video camera with me and started to document the places and people that I saw. I would return from a trip and edit the footage into small vignettes. I had rediscovered my passion for film. This is one of fifteen short films that I produced.Tokyo Trains from pgeek and Vimeo. I was very proud to have this film screened at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. This was a big AHA, rediscovering film making. This is where I first saw Rachel Perry. But the 4th big AHA is when I realized that the world is a big place, full of wonder, and I did not have to live in the same country I was born in. In fact I knew I wanted to live abroad and experience more of the world. Documenting WeddingsMeanwhile, back in Denver, I started to film weddings. My first wedding I was a guest with a camera. I filmed my friends getting ready, I was with the groom and my friend Nancy had a camera with the bride. I put this together with music and my new career path was set. Here is my first wedding video. I shot my next wedding with Rachel and we were a team for 15 more weddings and a series of college recruiting videos. You can see those weddings here.Playa del CarmenIn 2005 I went to Playa on New Year Day and it wasn't long before I decided to stay. I sold my house and packed my car and drove down, arriving a week after Wilma. I spent two years building my business here and in 2007 I returned to Denver and found Rachel. We were both finally single at the same time and love bloomed. She came back to Playa with me and now we run PlayaWeddings as a tried and tested team.ABOUT RACHELI am a Nebraskan native. My father, a historian and English professor, gave me the gift of poetry (musical, visual, textual, and otherwise) and taught me life is always beautiful if you look at it through that lens. My mother is a first class creative appreciator and a risk-taker; she gave me my bravery. I escaped from Harvard University with a BA in English in 1997. I am currently finishing my Master's Degree in Video Production from the University of Denver. I came to film through theater, when I decided I'd rather be behind the camera rather than in front of it (most of the time). In 2004, my documentary Centripetal Visions was shown at the South by Southwest Film Festival, a big honor in the film world. Paul was there too, and we remember seeing each other there in the filmmaker's lounge. But we hadn't met yet.... I fell in love with Paul at a Mexican restaurant in Denver in May of 2004, though he didn't know it at the time. That summer we learned how to make beautiful, inspired videos together. Three years later, I am so blessed to have the opportunity to join the love of my life in this heart-centered work, making awesome films in an incredible place with an a-m-a-z-i-n-g person! Ê I love seeing people at their happiest. Everything is beautiful and blessed at those moments, and that's why I still love filming weddings. My personal work as a documentarian revolves around the moment when memory becomes story, catching serendipity on film, and finding the transcendent in the strange and small. |
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