Nico loves to tell stories.

As a set decorator for narrative works, he uses objects to paint the picture of a character’s inner world. His recent decoration credit for the feature film FAMILIAR TOUCH won a Film Independent Spirit Award after premiering at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, where it also won several prizes. 

He is a member of IATSE Local 44. See select art department credits here. 

As a director of his own projects, Nico plays with a blend of media and techniques such as collage, sculpture, found imagery, and animation. Dissolving the boundaries between biological and mechanical, physical and metaphysical, insight and insanity, his experimental film and video works explore the ecology of being — whether you’re a human, a stone, or a dragonfly. His films have screened in the US and abroad.

He is based in Los Angeles.

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e-mail: nicojdag [@] gmail [dot] com

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