 He began making films in high school and went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Arts, with a central focus on experimental film, from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.Chel White began making independent short films after college, starting with a drawn-on-film animation titled "Metal Dogs of India" (1985).In 1991, White completed "Choreography for Copy Machine (Photocopy Cha Cha)", an animated film created solely by using the unique photographic capabilities of a photocopier to generate sequential pictures of hands, faces, and other body parts.