When Allen quit his real job to take up filmmaking full time, he started what turned out to be the first film and art blog. Since 2001, greg.org: the making of has served as a platform for documenting his own creative process and for exploring the artists, projects and history that inspire him. As a contributor to the New York Times, Cabinet and other publications, Allen investigates the anomalies of making, showing and collecting contemporary art. He also once test-drove strollers for Slate.
Installments of The Souvenir Series, his 12-part documentary about memory, have screened at various film festivals, including Documentary Fortnight, Interfilm Berlin and Palm Springs IFF. He is currently preparing a documentary about the history of art and technology in the 1960s, which includes NASA’s first satellite mission Project Echo, Billy Klüver, Bell Labs and the early work of Andy Warhol.
He has curated exhibitions at Exit Art and The Drawing Center and has shown his work at Clementine Gallery in New York City. A longtime collector, Allen was also the co-chairman of the Museum of Modern Art’s Junior Associates. His wife is an astrophysicist. They have two kids.
