Tag: Film
Video taken from a train in Toronto, and overlayed together. Reverb and space are added to the audio to create the dreamscape feeling.
Newlight ~ 2023
Preview of new work: Decolonizing the analog medium through a digital space: Not by narrative or subject, but through reconstruction.
Yellow, cyan and magenta wash over the digital flow to create the idea of a film negative, windows become the perforations, and the vertical movement indicates film threaded through the light of a projector. Low hum vibrations echo the sounds of the mechanical device.
Inspired by Stan Brakhage “Mothlight” with the idea of grief as motivation, and giving life through new processes.
New work taking shape, footage and audio I recently shot in Carberry, Mb. Finding a balance between atmosphere and visuals by remixing audio and layering noise over the footage. My goal is to emphasize the tension through the framing and sound design, building the audio as the character moves into the woods.
Shot with Canon EOS R, utilizing a DJI Ronin Stabilizer.
Taking a different approach to portraits, creating something a bit atmospheric through the audio with some dynamic black and white static shots. This one was my Dad. Glad to work with him and get out into the woods to shoot some really fun footage.
“The shutter is clicked… the flash goes off… and they’ve stopped time… if just for the blink of an eye.” – One Hour Photo (2002)
“No tears please, it’s a waste of good suffering” – Hellraiser (1987)
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)
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.
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