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This is an adaptation of a poem by Jeffrey McDaniel, who has some ideas for a few appropriately modern gods.
format: HD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
The Hague, 2007.
Archive for the ‘Major Festival’ Category
The Foxhole Manifesto
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007The Little Bird of Disaster
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
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This is a story about a little bird who claims to be able to predict the future. Don’t trust him.
The Little Bird of Disaster was developed at The Kitchen’s 2003 summer workshop. The speaking characters are real-time “video puppets,” controlled with Mark Coniglio’s Isadora software. The piece was actually performed, like they say, in front of a live studio audience (you can hear them in the background).
format: DV video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Painter, Isadora, Final Cut, Audition
Los Angeles, 2004.Screened at Rotterdam Film Festival 2005.
A Good Joke
Monday, January 16th, 2006
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This short is based on an old joke, a perennial in compilations of Jewish humor. Although the details differ between versions, the scene remains the same: a priest challenges a rabbi to a debate on the spiritual condition of Jewish people. But neither speaks the other’s language, and…well, I won’t spoil the punch line.
format: HD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
San Francisco, 2005.Screened at Ottawa Animation Festival 2006.
The Option of War
Friday, January 6th, 2006
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In this adaptation of an early Kafka story, a soldier is taken prisoner in the night by a pack of jackals. Offering a pair of scissors, they demand that he use the makeshift weapon to kill his sleeping friends. They overwhelm his initial, shocked refusal. Slowly, incredibly, he begins to see their point of view. He takes the scissors, and…
format: HD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Painter, Final Cut, Audition
Montreal, 2005.Screened at Ottawa Animation Festival 2005.
