Prior to his work as a Cinematographer, he worked as a Gaffer on many popular music videos for Korn, Brandy, Shaquille O'Neal and Ice Cube in addition to feature films such as Free Enterprise.

Making his turn to directing, his short film, Paranoid, which was adapted from the poem by Stephen King, has garnered overwhelming praise for its stylistic excellence as well as high praise and support from Mr. King. An even shorter effort, an amazingly terse 50 second horror project, Hunger was spotlighted as one of Director John Carpenter's favorites for a Halloween special he hosted on American Movie Classics and hailed by the New York Post critic Linda Stasi as her favorite of the show.

Holben followed up those with another short film, Descent, a thrilling tale of a woman trapped in an elevator with the man she witnessed brutally murder her best friend. Descent had an extremely successful run at the festival circuit playing all around the world and winning several top awards.

Taking a different turn, Holben is making his first feature film - a documentary - entitled CamGirls about some of the hundreds of young women who dedicate a website to their webcam images and spend a significant portion of their life online for the world to see. CamGirls is currently in post-production.

As a producer, Holben has also made three independent feature films in addition to more than a dozen short films and commercials. Additionally, he is a Technical Editor and frequent contributing writer for American Cinematographer magazine and the prominent trade newspaper The Hollywood Reporter.