From the North Shore of Chicago, Aiden's career in the arts began when he quit his corporate statistician job and moved to the French Alps while founding and editing the print literary magazine, Polycephaly. He now keeps a vegetable garden and a black cat with his girlfriend in Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles. He supports his increasingly expensive grappa connoisseurship working as a writer/director, location scout, and queen (honey bee) breeder.
He feels awkward about third-person autobiography, even in compressed, professional contexts.
As a film director, Aiden thinks holistically, composing all cinematic elements in thematic harmony. He reveals character through cinematography, soundscape, and production design as much as through dialogue. He has laid two filmmaking tracks: Allegorical Surrealism—studies of the modern man, steeped in aesthetic richness— and absurd comedy, lampooning the smug and self-righteous. He strives to make films that prompt critical thought rather than affirm comfortable assumptions, that provoke enigmatic feelings which evolve as they reverberate. Over the short film horizon he is manifesting genre-bending features.
His interests include cinema, literary fiction, world history, environmental conservation, sailing, mountaineering, beekeeping, fermentation, music, sports, linguistics, and philosophy.