http://www.poenradtpictures.com/home daily 1.0 2024-11-26 http://www.poenradtpictures.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-01-12 http://www.poenradtpictures.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2023-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b1c218e4b0818d0b700eb5/2036fd03-e05d-4979-b47f-00cf7011c85a/Metropolis.jpg About - OLD & NEW “Poenradt” — however you may pronounce it — is the ancestral German spelling of my last name. It’s the name of risk-taking pioneers, who were themselves refugee immigrants in the early 1700s, seeking a new life in a new America that was still being formed. I’d like to think I’m doing something similar by striking out as a freelancer, founding something new, but never loosing a grip on the good that has come before. In film history, I was always inspired by another group of early German pioneers who forged a new cinema in the silent era and whose works still hold up today. My take on visual storytelling is to fuse together something old — principles of editing — and something new — an ever evolving modern aesthetic. – J. P. PENROD