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Yeah, everybody who’s been to film school has got a scratch film, but I’m partial to this one.
format: 16mm film
software: n/a
Amsterdam, 1998.
Archive for the ‘Student Film’ Category
Glasfilm
Sunday, January 1st, 2006The Pilot
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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This is one of two attempts I made to turn the text of a curious 1960s children’s book into a cartoon. Stay tuned…
format: DV video
software: Director, AfterEffects
Los Angeles, 2002.
Six Premonitions
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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Here are six very short films made in the six months leading up to the Second Iraq War.
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
Los Angeles, 2003.
Fickle
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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A curious little fragment. I rarely work with real film; the results always surprise me.
format: 16mm film
software: n/a
Los Angeles, 2002.
The Thief
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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The middle episode of an epic Super 8 trilogy; the other two parts are lost.
format: Super 8mm film
software: Premiere
Pittsburgh, 1997.
Jam
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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This was my first, never-finished stab at 3D animation; I’ve got something a bit more modern coming up soon. In the meantime, while visually this thing wouldn’t pass muster as a turn-of-the-century game cutscene, I do like how the music turned out.
format: DV video
software: Maya
Pittsburgh, 1999.
One, Two, Three
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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This was an early compositing test, multiplying myself with hand-painted mattes. For me, the magical feeling was probably pretty close to what the first photo pioneers must’ve felt…
format: DV video
software: Premiere, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1998.
Fast Voyeur
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
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Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
I began to take a video camera out at night and peek into hundreds of other people’s windows, just for a few seconds at a time. I wasn’t sure quite why I was doing this…
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1999.
Manipulations
Monday, December 19th, 2005
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Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
If you search for a needle in a haystack for too long, you start to get bored, then tired, then angry. If you get angry enough, you might even throw the whole haystack away, but then you’ve lost the needle forever…
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1999.
An Iconoclast
Monday, December 19th, 2005
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Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
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.
