Jayson Moyer
Director Producer Creative
Interdisciplinary Artist
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Bio
Jayson Moyer is a filmmaker, commercial director, producer and multidisciplinary artist whose work has taken him across the US, Asia, and Europe. A graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he began his career directing commercials with Believe Media and went on to direct more than one hundred spots for clients including Nike, Sony, Ford, Pepsi, ESPN, IKEA, Nintendo, and McDonald’s.His work has earned recognition from the Clios and Cannes Shots, but his approach has always centered on something simpler: how image, performance, sound, and rhythm can communicate a story with clarity and emotion.Over the years, Moyer’s work has expanded into television, music, live performance, and immersive art, including the Spike TV series Permanent Mark and the audiovisual concert experience Sonic Offerings.Now based in Southeast Asia, he works with musicians, artists, and cultural organizations in Cambodia on projects that celebrate and promote Khmer culture while continuing to explore new ways of telling stories across film, sound, and emerging media.
Khmer Encounters
Staying with the moment.
Over the past several months, I’ve been collaborating with Khmer musicians, artists, and tradition bearers on a series of simple films exploring Cambodian culture through performance, craft, and observation.The approach is intentionally minimal. Rather than building scenes through coverage and heavy editing, I’m interested in staying with a moment long enough to find its essence. Most of these films are created in a single take, allowing the rhythm of the person, the music, the environment, and the unexpected moments in between to shape the film.
The Mouth Harp Master
A portrait of an 85-year-old Khmer musician and craftsman preserving the tradition of the bamboo mouth harp.The interview was filmed in one continuous take. Afterwards, the camera stayed with him again as he transformed a raw piece of bamboo into a finished mouth harp, from the first cut through the final carving. No reconstruction. No repeated actions. Just the process unfolding in front of the camera.
Musical EncountersRather than approaching it as a traditional music video, the camera moves through the performance as an observer, allowing the musicians, landscape, sound, and atmosphere to determine the rhythm of the film.
Another collaboration built around the same idea: one performance, one continuous take, and as little interference as possible.These films are part of an ongoing exploration of Khmer music and culture, working directly with Cambodian artists to document traditions while also finding contemporary and personal ways of experiencing them.
Past Projects
This video uses AI to deliberately mimic the visual language of home shopping networks; flat lighting, over-polished skin, forced enthusiasm, and an eerily calm tone. By pushing realism just far enough, the piece leans into absurdity, turning familiarity into friction. The process isn’t about parody through exaggeration, but precision: recreating a believable world so the humor lands quietly, then lingers.
This is my presentation at the AI imaginaries symposium given at BACC 03.28.26.You can jump ahead to 1:10:18
Drawing on decades as a film director, I approach AI image and video creation with the same discipline as live action production; intentional framing, believable light, human texture, and narrative control. I now consult with clients on how to move beyond generic outputs, helping them develop refined prompts, visual systems, and workflows tailored to the specific needs of each project. Recent work includes a climate focused piece for a keynote at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, where I reconstructed a fictional 2003 natural disaster with documentary realism. I presented an AI imaginaries keynote and workshop at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in March of 2026.
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