I Will Make the Film

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avid de Hilster made his first movie at age 11 with a windup, 8 mm film camera. Since then, he knew someday he would be making films. He never thought his first film would be a documentary let alone one that takes on Einstein.

David was born in Ann Arbor Michigan and was raised in Ohio where he had an idealic life in a Huck-Finn world full of fields, apple trees, and lots of imagination. Rarely watching television, David spent most of his child hood drawing, playing the piano and trumpet, and making lots of inventions. His art talents were recognized by age 8 and his science skills recognized in elementary school. From sculpture to film to pipe organs to a time-lapse photography machine, David never stopped.

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r. de Hilster went to Ohio State where he majored in mathematics and architecture, getting a master's degree in Linguistics concentrating on the area of artificial intelligence called natural language processing. David moved to Rio de Janeiro where he worked as a computer scientist, painted and drew, and rock climbed. There he met his future wife Doris.

Three years later, de Hilster moved back to the United States being called more to the artist side as inspired by Brazil, making a living as a computer scientist in the area of artificial intelligence. He started painting and was immediately picked up by the art and sales gallery of the L.A. County Museum of Art, one of the premier museums on the west coast where his paintings sold for thousands of dollars. He also started a samba school to indulge in his love of the complex rhythms of samba he learned to love in Brazil.

In 1992 in Long Beach California, he met physicist Dr. Ricardo Carezani who looked to David to help communicate his findings to the world. David helped found the Society for the Advancement of Autodynamics and put the physicist on the map. That is where David discovered the underworld of physics where things did not appear as pretty as they did in public. Physics was not as it seemed.

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n 2004, David de Hilster, frustrated that no journalist, writer, or filmmaker would take on the job, David decided to make a documentary film instead of his planned arts film. He took a seminar in documentary film making and now finds himself chasing his family and the physics underground around the United States.

David's talents are unique to the documentary and film business with his ability to cross from the technical side to the artistic side with ease. His science friends think of him as an artist and his artist friends think of him as a scientist. But you can be sure he is both.

Be sure to expect not only amazing scientific content that even his mother can understand, but for it to be presented in beautiful and unique ways that only David de Hilster could do.

Someone had to do this film. Why not the scientist, artist, musician filmmaker guy. You can visit his website at www.dehilster.com