Rule or Ruin (series)

August 23rd, 2012


(download mp4)

Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
\/  individual films  \/

A cycle of six short films, created between the beginning of the Afghan War and the beginning of the Iraq War.

format: DV video
software: Commotion, After Effects, Final Cut, Photoshop, Audition
Los Angeles, 2004.

Franklin

March 9th, 2012


(download mp4)

Available on: youtube.com | archive.org

A reading of the poem “Franklin” by Karen Solie, with realtime graphics created in Isadora and Processing.

format: HD video
software: Isadora, Processing, After Effects
Toronto, 2012.

Interregnum

December 4th, 2011


(download mp4)

Available on: youtube.com | vimeo.com | archive.org

Based on the extraordinary career of RenĂ© Carmille, history’s first known computer hacker. The government of Nazi-occupied France launched a ghastly and unprecedented experiment in information science: much of the Vichy bureaucracy, including the operation of the death camps, was automated with punch-card computers. However, the Nazis didn’t understand the technology’s potential vulnerabilities…

format: HD video
software: Flash, After Effects, Final Cut, Photoshop, Audition
Toronto, 2010.

More Than Winning

November 11th, 2011


(download mp4)

Available on: youtube.com | vimeo.com | archive.org

“They gave me a gun, a pick, and a hand grenade, and said ‘Win at any cost,’ and I said ‘Right.’ There’s nothing I love more than winning…” From a story by Susan Murray.

format: HD video
software: Flash, After Effects, Final Cut, Photoshop, Audition
New York, 2011.

The Mouth and the Vitamin

October 10th, 2011


(download mp4)

Available on: youtube.com | archive.org

This is one of a series of realtime animations we created for Jen Tsuei’s play Fantasias for the Immoderate. Two actors in microphones used the volume of their voices to control the video “puppets” in a program called Isadora.

format: DV video
software: Isadora
Los Angeles, 2004.

Sloth

October 10th, 2011


(download mp4)

Available on: youtube.com | archive.org

What’s a goat doing on the phone? He’s illustrating one of the seven deadly sins, of course.

format: 16mm film
software: n/a
Los Angeles, 2003.

Cave Bear

August 5th, 2011


(download mp4)

Available on: youtube.com | archive.org

A reading of the poem “Cave Bear” by Karen Solie, with realtime graphics created in Isadora and Processing.

format: HD video
software: Isadora, Processing, After Effects
Toronto, 2011.

Molasses Sisters

July 4th, 2011


(download mp4)

Available on: youtube.com

Once upon a time there were three little sisters and they lived at the bottom of a well… An excerpt from Alice in Wonderland, adapted from a 2004 realtime installation created with Meg Schedel.

format: DV video
software: After Effects, Painter, Max/MSP/Jitter
Toronto, 2011.

Outside the Box

June 12th, 2011


(download mp4)

Available on: youtube.com | archive.org

Something a little different–a live-action comedy sketch created with Nicole Stamp, starring Hayley Hudson, Ben Hudson, and Danielle Ayow.

format: DV video
software: Final Cut
Toronto, 2008.

Trip Down Market (annotated)

May 2nd, 2011


(download mp4)

Available on: youtube.com

A realtime recording made with GPS data and popcorn.js, based on the classic “actuality film” shot by Harry Miles in San Francisco, April 1906. Here’s the code used to create this.

format: website
software: popcorn.js, After Effects
Toronto, 2011.