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\/ individual films \/
A cycle of six short films, created between the beginning of the Afghan War and the beginning of the Iraq War.
format: DV video
software: Commotion, After Effects, Final Cut, Photoshop, Audition
Los Angeles, 2004.
Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
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.
Available on: youtube.com
Once upon a time there were three little sisters and they lived at the bottom of a well… An excerpt from Alice in Wonderland, adapted from a 2004 realtime installation created with Meg Schedel.
format: DV video
software: After Effects, Painter, Max/MSP/Jitter
Toronto, 2011.
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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.
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Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
>> #2 in a series of 6
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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Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
>> #6 in a series of 6
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.
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Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
>> #3 in a series of 6
I’d seen pictures of it before, but an especially dramatic photograph caught my eye on a magazine cover in the grocery store. It almost looked like another vegetable: a brilliant marigold-orange “fuel-air” bomb, the most powerful non-nuclear weapon on the market.
format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Painter, Final Cut, Audition
Los Angeles, 2003.
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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>> #4 in a series of 6
The painter in this short may think she’s only painting circles on the ground. But from our privileged vantage point, we can see well enough where it’s all going to lead….
format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Painter, Final Cut, Audition
Los Angeles, 2003.
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This little cartoon took ten years to finish. I drew it all out in pen and ink the winter of 1995, and didn’t get around to shooting it for exactly a decade. Here you go!
format: DV video
software: Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1995.
