ALL THE KINGS MEN

Do you have a hard time accepting things that are out of your control? Do constantly try to fix things that can’t be fixed or don’t need fixing? All the King’s Men is a tale that encourages us to accepts things that cannot be changed.All the King’s Men is one of the Directions to Enough series, an experimental, self-help video series. It presents guidelines for slowing down, becoming more present, and accepting difficult circumstances while maintaining high levels of creativity, productivity, and agency. These guidelines were first articulated during the Art of Enough podcast series. (Segment 5 – Directions to Enough – Jay Sullivan, 2018)

Each video in the Directions to Enough video series has several intentions: 1) communicate to the audience a useful guideline for improving psychological and emotional health, 2) explore and expand the strategies and motifs related to traditional instructional videos, 3) create a unique creative process where the production of the video creates improved psychological and emotional health for the filmmaker.

BIO Jay Sullivan studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and then went on to a 25-year career as a Producer and Creative Director in the commercial NY production industry. He's created media for print, online. installations and live events. He’s traveled to over 20 countries on four continents staging events and creating health-related video documentaries that featured President Jimmy Carter, Secretary of State Madeline Albright, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Ossie Davis, the Ye minority in the remote mountains of southern China, Bambara farmers in Mali, and teenagers in the favelas of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His commercial productions have been garnered a Cine Golden Eagle, NY Festivals Silver World Medal, Silver Screen Award and many other honors. Since 2011, Jay has created photographic and video art.