Available on: youtube.com | vimeo.com | archive.org
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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Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
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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: Commotion, Final Cut, Audition, Photoshop
Los Angeles, 2003.Broadcast on CBC TV 2005.
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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: Commotion, AfterEffects, Painter, Isadora, Final Cut, Audition
Los Angeles, 2004.Screened at Rotterdam Film Festival 2005.
Available on: youtube.com | vimeo.com | archive.org
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.
Available on: youtube.com | vimeo.com | archive.org
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.
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Available on: youtube.com
“Is the nail attracted to the magnet?” “Yes!”
This oddly martial drill on the properties of the magnet comes to us from an old, damaged album of ’50s educational songs. I just couldn’t help imagining what the recording session must have looked like, and out came this little cartoon.
format: DV video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
Pittsburgh, 2002.
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This is a demo for a new video installation I’m working on. It’s like an old puzzle in a kid’s magazine–can you find all the eagles?
format: realtime animation
software: Isadora, Live
The Hague, 2007.
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This was created during the same Kitchen workshop that spawned The Little Bird of Disaster; the soundtrack was made with a 1960s analog computer and a brand-new upright piano.
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Final Cut
The Hague, 2006.
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Here’s a collaboration with composer Meg Schedel, recorded at San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique, a collection of early-20th-century mechanical musical instruments.
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects
San Francisco, 2006.
Isadora Live Camera Control
Jitter Color Organ (music by Celeste Hutchins)
PD Kaleidoscope
These are realtime recordings, with me triggering events by tapping keys in time to the beat. They’re tests for some upcoming projects using OSC (Open Sound Control), a nifty protocol for getting many different kinds of realtime sound and video programs to talk to each other.
format: DV video
software: Isadora, Max/MSP/Jitter, PD
Amsterdam/The Hague, 2007.
