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Grocery
Store Wars
A Freerange Studios Production © 2005
directed by Louis Fox
This most recent movie project
was one of most fun I've done as work for hire. The loving
Star Wars parody was created by Freerange to convey the
plight of organic vs. the 'darkside' of genetically engineered
food corps in their quest for world domination. And what
a fun way to tell it- with food itself!
Freerange brought me in for my experience with miniatures
and puppet films. My main role was to design miniature sets.
This included some props and practical lighting- see pic
at left of the lit bar and flourescent drinks. Besides the
famous SaladBar set I also got to create the 'Millenium
Scallion' cockpit!
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Fear and Fun with
FIsh
A
DesmondIndi Production © 2003-2005
directed by Niffer Desmond
This animated
short is a journey into the gastric fears and fantasies of
one proto-simian. Motivated by hunger he sets out on a quest
for food, and in the process encounters obstacles from the
barely edible to incredible. Fantasy and reality collide to
blur the boundaries between eater and eaten, external and
internal, horror and delight. In the end who can say where
one ends and the other begins? It is a silent movie performed
with a combination of live puppetry, animatronics and stop-action
techniques, with plenty of incidental sounds and music. FFF
was completed in 2003 and is currently on the festival circuit.
It screened in the 2004 at the SF
indie Fest and will be in the IFFCT 2005 world tour festival. See
the FFF
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Puppet
'Margaret Freeman'
Find
the Commercial Album DVD at your
local music store (Virgin, Amoeba, etc) |
Margaret Freeman
1minute stop-motion animated video, 2004
directed by Niffer Desmond
Music by the Residents
'A wranglin ride of gutty machinery'
The 25th
anniversary of the Commercial Album DVD complements and completes
the project with an amazing collection of 56 one-minute films
based on the original 40 Commercial Album songs. The Residents
have also assembled a group of 42 visual artists from around
the world for production. I am one of four bay area artists
that were commissioned to make a video.
Margaret Freeman has been shown all over the world as part
of the touring show for the Commercial Album DVD. It made
it's local San Francisco debut in the 2005 SF
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Composite
from 'The New Day'
(photo by bulk foodveyor)
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The New Day
2003, work in progress
directed by Bulk Foodveyor
from the RK
site: 'The New Day is an example of No-Wave Science
Fiction Cinema. It is a featurette video piece which provides
grotesque, surreal satire and silly farce regarding work ethic
in the corporate environment, surveillance technology and
the medical-industrial complex..'
Due to unforeseen circumstances TND production is currently
on hold. In my role as '2nd unit director' for a particular
sequence, I did cinematography, editing and post digital tweaking.
This imparts a unique flavor apart from the rest of the film,
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Kristin
Lemberg as Slim Virginia
(photo: Elizabeth Gorelik)
See
RK
Corral for full info
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GoodGuy / BadGuy
An RK Corral Production
directed by Rajendra Serber
GGBG was performed live to a multitude
of audiences from 2001-2002.
It is currently being adapted to
film under the direction of Rajendra Serber. I have created
numerous composites, colorizations/corrections and special
effects in photoshop to bring shots together.
from the RK
site: 'GoodGuy/BadGuy is a space western featuring
over 700 digitally composited photographs, which serve as
the narrative structure for antic live performances by actors/dancers..
It begins with the pants-less hero GoodGuy / BadGuy (a space
cowboy responsible for maintaining a town's notions of 'good'
and 'bad') blasting into space. Upon his desertion, black
and white notions of good and bad eventually degenerate
into philosophical crises, unleashing a series of absurdly
ominous events, and climaxing in the destruction of the
town by an army of mutant cows..'
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Still
from title sequence
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Beanality
A BigDark Media production, 2003
directed by Scott Fegette
Beanality is a digital
video narrative short conceived and directed by Scott Fegette
as part of the Magic Bullet research team at Pixel Corps.
It is an experiment testing the filmic aesthetic capabilities
of post production for digital video, most especially using
the Magic Bullet software.
The finished title sequence was a collaboritive effort. Scott
layed down beat track and basic shot sequence (he was also
composer) and handed it off to Lyn Gaza and I to finish. We
added stop motion animation inserts, coffee drip overlays,
jittery titles, colorized palettes and lots of cool smeary,
motion effects. See the end result on Scott's
site |
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Characters Cobweb and Wankel
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A Clockwork Wormbinge
A Caits TrickFilm production, 2002
directed and animated by Caits Meeks
This Flash originated
animation is a beauty. Trickfilm commisioned me to create
incidental illustration and background collage for some
scenes, using drawings and photography. These meshed fairly
seamlessly with the plethora of whimsical art. You can see
the whole toon
online, don't miss it!
from the ACW
site:
'Ten minutes of sick-n-twisted style cartoon fun! Wankel,
a slack jawed, postal-theiving, mucous-dripping banana-slug
yokel, has been looting mailboxes throughout the Salinas
National Elf Reservation.. until art student Cobweb catches
him doing his dirty deed, and unwittingly finds herself
in the center of a devious hypnotic plot!' |
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Portion of cooking show set
(photo: Niffer Desmond)
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The
Cooking Show Pilot
A Mishap Productions show 2002
directed by Ryan Beebe
-Show description coming soon.-
A show pilot made for public access television in pre-production.
I acted as art director and set designer.
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