Sketchbook 2000-2004
Sloth
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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.
Azharah
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This lovely sand animation was created from Hebrew calligraphy by Gil Omry, as part of Lauren Hartman’s play Out of Me and Into You.
format: DV video
software: Director, AfterEffects, Final Cut
Los Angeles, 2003.
The Judge
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This video was my first try at rotoscoping, created as a projection for a dance performance. The character here is a corrupt judge receiving his karmic punishment–which I imagine here as getting flushed down into some kind of supernatural plumbing.
format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Final Cut
Pittsburgh, 2001.
Battletank
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This is a bit of found footage from an old video game, slowed way down. Turn up the sound and take a look….there’s something going on here that I can’t quite explain.
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects
Los Angeles, 2003.
The Pilot
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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
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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.
Some People Never Learn
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Here’s a kinda-creepy collage of pictures and sounds assembled automatically by a Lingo script, all at least tangentially related to my childhood in Huntington, West Virginia. I’m really not sure quite what to make of it.
format: DV video
software: Director, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
Los Angeles, 2004.
Fickle
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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 Mouth and the Vitamin
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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.
Art of News
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I love this little opener I created for the Pittsburgh public-access show Art of News. The jack-in-the-box was puppeteered with wire rods that I painted out in Commotion, which worked out so well I’ve been looking for an excuse to do it again ever since.
format: DV video
software: Commotion, Premiere, Audition, Acid
Pittsburgh, 2001.
