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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.