Halpern’s current film, ANGER (working title) is a work-in-progress which takes a look at anger in all its manifestations, positive and negative - from genocide to altruism, from annihilation to procreation, from the Mid East to Manhattan. Already in principle photography stage, this film is an intimate story of people dealing with anger provoked by a wide range of causes from personal loss to social crisis. Accented by POV and standard interviews of experts in bio-psychology, spiritual leaders, environmental activists and politicians, it uses media to expose media as the agent of misinformation it too often is and examines the phenomenon of anger ... as well as peace.

REFUGE is Halpern’s most recent media project portrays a contemporary history of Buddhism and a cross cultural picture of mind from an East/West Buddhist point of view.

Halpern lives and works in New York after having resided for 15 years in Europe.

BRIDGING- Halpern’s first large scale media sculpture was executed on the tops of New York City’s 7 largest bridges in collaboration with about 100 artists in 1977. The goal was to prevent terrorism from dominating media for one day. BRIDGING won the Best News Of The Year Award for WABC’s Eyewitness News, that year.

In 1988, with SMOKE SCULPTURE, Halpern engaged 1000 Europeans in sending cigarette smoke to cigarette factories. In 1989, he lived in a sealed glass container in Holland for 10 days breathing once per minute with 10,000 green plants- BREATHSCULPTURE. This event dominated the media for over two weeks. With FRESH AIR, Halpern’s mobile glass houses, more than 50,000 people breathed interactively with plants in Europe and the USA. FRESH AIR was seen in national news all over the world and was the symbol for a huge and successful environmental PR campaign for the Clean Air Act in 1990.

Halpern uses media as an empowering devise for individual and social creativity.