Archive for the ‘Live Action’ Category

An Iconoclast

Monday, December 19th, 2005

An Iconoclast
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The letters used in this short fell off a movie theater marquee one Sunday afternoon in the fall of 1998. They’d originally been part of some grand, meaningful words, but now they were stranded and helpless. So I gave them a new home.

format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1998.

Meal

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Meal
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This short is about an argument over dinner, an argument that goes around in circles. What’s unusual is that the dinner goes around in circles too; what’s eaten by one combatant comes out of the mouth of the other, so neither the eating nor the fighting ever has to end.

format: DV video
software: Premiere, Audition, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1997.

Open Quote

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Open Quote
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Have you ever looked at a sentence until it stopped making sense? For this short, I took a bit from a little-known Lewis Carroll poem, and repeated it until it lost any kind of meaning.

format: Hi8 video
software: Premiere, Audition, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1997.