John Dorr

As a filmmaker, Dorr wrote and directed several full-length dramatic videos including his debut, "Sudzall Does It All" (1979), "Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place" (about Dorothy Parker), "Approaching Omega," and "The Case of the Missing Consciousness." Since 1980, he worked on more than 100 video productions as a producer, director, cameraman and/or editor. Dorr's credits include Eric Bogosian's "Funhouse," Malcolm MacDowell's "The Oak Grove School," and the Lannen Literary Series, hour-long profiles of major writers and poets. At the time of his death, he had been working on a feature-length documentary on the making of Robert Altman's "Short Cuts." Dorr also wrote film criticism and articles on film history for various periodicals.