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The filmmaker's personal odyssey began at age 16 when he ran away from home. At 18, he became a seaman in the Merchant Marines working on the Pacific Ocean. By this means, and while studying in Europe, he visited 25 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas by the time he was 21 years old.
His activities have included playing rugby for many years, parachuting, and white water rafting down the Colorado. He has authored two books (both well-reviewed and little sold). He has painted. And he has studied acting under Charles Conrad and Stella Adler. He meditates daily.
His 18 years of university level education include over twelve years at Harvard University - where he is currently a Visiting Fellow on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences - and four years at the University of Southern California Cinema Department - where he earned an MFA.
His films have played in film festivals, universities and art museums all over the world, winning numerous awards including a CINE Golden Eagle and a Gold Medal at the Chicago International Film Festival. They have shown on network and public television and HBO. His first feature film completed in 1996 made its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Odyssey
ODYSSEY is a visual poem. It was shot in the Anza-Borrego Desert during a grueling, ten-day shoot with the reflected temperature off the desert floor at 140 degrees. The work portrays the odyssey of a woman/goddess/mankind, born from the sand, evolving from birth to innocence and then to growth, knowledge, pride and sin and, finally, through death to a transcendental reunion with her creator (the One).
The aim of the film is to heighten the viewer's spiritual awareness. This is a non-traditional film that attempts to reach and stimulate the viewer's inner being; to touch by non-literate means through the use of images, music, design and theme.
1986, 16mm, color/so, 15m
Barry.J.Hershey.-.Odyssey.1986.DVDRip.XviD-Malachi.avi 
Untitled 1987
UNTITLED 1987 challenges our common perception of reality, and, through cinematic means, suggests the possibility of a deeper and more profound reality. This meditative film poem explores the mystic's vision of the oneness of All through the use of camera, music, movement, color and light.
1987, 16mm, color/so, 7m
Barry.J.Hershey.-.Untitled.1987.1989.DVDRip.XviD-Malachi.avi Sound of Peace
SOUND OF PEACE is a cinematic meditation. Utilizing the deep resonance of the didgeridoo - played by Nawang Khechog, a former Buddhist Monk - the film gently, yet powerfully, transforms the viewer's sense of possibility for inner and world peace. A synthesis of viscerally experienced waves of sound and engaging images creates a calm and transcendant experience.
1997, 35mm, color/so, 7.5m
Barry.J.Hershey.-.Sound.Of.Peace.1997.DVDRip.XviD-Malachi.avi Filmmaker
This film is an expressionistic visual poem of one filmmaker's reaction to being a filmmaker.
"FILMMAKER is a designer-like work which transports the viewer from a static scene to high velocity passage to a precipitous end. The film is an effects-oriented demonstration of technical virtuosity that is just long enough to make its point without overstating its case." - Black Maria Film and Video Festival
1987, 16mm, color/so, 1m
Barry.J.Hershey.-.Filmmaker.1987.DVDRip.XviD-Malachi.avi Lucifer, God's Most Beautiful Angel
Lucifer was the prince of angels, the bearer of light. He placed his own beauty and perfection above his love for God. This sin of pride caused his fall to the darkest domain where, known as Satan, he struggles as God's rival.
This film poetically explores the Lucifer tale as manifested in man's realm.
1990, 16mm, color/so, 4m
Barry.J.Hershey.-.Lucifer.1991.DVDRip.XviD-Malachi.avi