“No tears please, it’s a waste of good suffering” – Hellraiser (1987)
Painting has been an integral part of my practice. I enjoy the process; dipping my brush and letting the paint find it’s way around the canvas. A way to decompress, sort through new ideas and see the world in a different way.
My last post about Night of the Living Dead got me thinking about how our perception changes over time. Night of the Living Dead is such an iconic and groundbreaking film, a “new dawn in Horror Film-making”. And in the wake of our current political and social climate, Night of the Living Dead really exemplifies how our perception radically changes, and how one film can exist in two planes at the same time.
Night of the Living Dead, but make it Rorschach. As soon as I learned that NOTLD was public domain, I took the entire original film, layered, mirrored, and sped it up to fit into a tidy 30 seconds. Its giving me Event Horizon hell-in-space sequence, but whatever the feeling I really like how this looks and sounds (I played with the reverb a bunch to get the nightmare-ish audio)
Working on a new piece at my studio and it’s coming together so nicely. I use a lot of dry brush technique to get my blending game strong, so I’m really stoked with how this one looks. A few more layers and it’ll be ready.
I travelled to Toronto, where I participated in the Blood In The Snow Film Fest and Horror Film Lab, pitched my feature film idea and made some incredible connections. It’s been a busy time this month, new job and new opportunities for my film work. It’s been very amazing, slightly overwhelming, but amazing nonetheless.
“It was an evil house from the beginning – a house that was born bad” – The Haunting (1963)
Coming soon
Grainy Vhs footage in my studio, late at night. Images flicker and cut into each other and urge you to look deeper, as the drone of voices and noise build and build…
Always after a rain, always with rolling clouds overhead; the city looks so beautiful on a rainy night.
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