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Created by running television static through a Painter script continually for three months, gradually drawing fantastic patterns and colors out of random noise. Commissioned by TAIS as part of the Eleven in Motion series, based on the paintings of Oscar Cahén.
format: HD video
software: Painter, Max/MSP/Jitter, After Effects
Toronto, 2010.
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It’s very rude to stare! Experimenting with my new Canon video DSLR…
format: HD video
software: After Effects, Flash
Toronto, 2010.
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Particle experiment with composer Carmen Rizzo, using footage shot at the Toronto Zoo and Centre Island.
format: realtime animation
software: After Effects
Toronto, 2009.
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A mostly true story about bugs.
format: SD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Painter, Audition
Toronto, 2009.
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Suddenly, a humble citrus fruit is granted absolute power over the universe. From a story by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
format: HD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
Toronto, 2009.Screened at SXSW 2010. (jury prize, Best Animated Short)
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Jessica Delfino is back with a helpful survival guide for those scary bear- and celebrity-infested woods…
format: HD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
Toronto, 2009.
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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.Screened at Rotterdam Film Festival 2009.
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Here’s a brand spankin’ new one, from a song by Jessica Delfino. She’s discovered a guaranteed shortcut to everlasting fame–watch and learn!
format: HD video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audacity
San Francisco, 2006.
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My cousins used to play this odd little game; they were about five and three years old at the time. The older one would pick up the remote control to the TV, point it at her sister, and say “Turn you off”–she’d obligingly fall to the ground and play dead. Then the remote changed hands, they’d change places, and the game would begin all over again. It was carried out with the solemn gravity of an execution by firing squad.
This short is a grown-up version of the same game, played with a grown-up weapon…
format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Painter, Final Cut, Audition
Pittsburgh, 2002.Broadcast on CBC TV 2002.
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Enoch receives a premonition of disaster, so he sets out to collect as many books as he can find, to preserve the knowledge of the world. But, lacking reliable divine guidance, all his careful preparations come down to a straight-ahead, all-or-nothing gamble….
format: DV video
software: Final Cut, Audition, Photoshop
Los Angeles, 2003.Broadcast on CBC TV 2005.
