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“Adventures of Power” Postcards from the Set, which Ari sent to his friends while making his movie, is now available as a free e-book, with pictures! Read Ari’s hardcore story of the making and distributing of “one of the funniest films in recent years” (NY Magazine). Tales of dealing with famous actors, crazy agents, lightning storms, Sundance kiss-asses and haters, copper-mining bosses, and more! Read it on your Nook, Kindle, Sony Reader, or iPad — or even on your iPhone. WARNING: Includes full-color pictures of Ari in short shorts!

Ari on Lost Berlin in NPR's Berlin Stories. Read the story or listen to Ari read it on NPR Berlin.

Ari's story about his trip to Serbia as a filmmaker before the fall of Milosevic. This article, translated into Serbian, was published in serial form by the premier Yugoslavian paper Danas, and is the inspiration for a new screenplay in development.

This essay analyzes Qawwali music's roots in Persian poetry, in the context of shamanism. Ari wrote it a few months after the events recreated in Helicopter, to honor the beautiful music that his brother had introduced to their mother and Bill Graham shortly before they died.

Ari's statement about his autobiographical film Helicopter.

Ari Gold, Adrian Grenier and Elvis Perkins talk about the void for Daniel Pinchbeck's Reality Sandwich.

His academic advisor at NYU refused to support the project. More than two years later, he accepted a Student Academy Award for his autobiographical film "Helicopter." This Los Angeles Times article written by Pail Lieberman and Michele Botwin follows Ari's journey from advisor-abandoned short to Student Oscar-winning film.