Bicycle Camera Test Footage

December 16, 2007

This is slightly long overdue - test footage from the first Bicycle Camera construction...the current version is at Film Rescue because the filmstock is too old to be developed normally. Hopefully, something came out of that process.

This version was driven by an aluminum gear, pushed by screws secured onto the spokes of the front wheel. Kind of an unstable design, but did the job just fine. However, the lens was pointed just ever so slightly too much at the sky...hence diminishing the desired effect of time-space distortion.

(click on image for test footage)

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Sundance 2008, Here We Come

A quick update, and a bit of good news. What was previously titled "Saturday Pictures" (and now titled "Lloyd Neck"), a short film directed and written by my friend, Benedict Campbell, and shot by your truly, was selected Sundance Film Festival. Which means I will be joining the influx of 20,000 people entering Park City, Utah, on January 17th, 2008. Very, very excited.

Very soon this film will be purchasable on iTunes. Seeing now that I have a week of break and only about six things to do, I can most likely squeeze in as much web update time as possible.

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5/4

New work. Shot on video in late November.

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Body Landscapes

April 24, 2007

A week and a half ago in Montreal, I was suddenly struck with the urge to make an abstract film narrative about different hair style/types as landscapes. It was a simple urge, and I felt compelled to make it immediately. The day after I returned to Providence, I gathered 12 people and began making this film (and later cut out one). The film is driven by a non-specific narrative progression.

Click on the image to view the film.

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Adorno on Film and Reality

April 18, 2007

"Since the abrupt introduction of the sound film, mechanical duplication has become entirely subservient to this objective. According to this tendency, life is to be made indistinguishable from the sound film. Far more strongly than the theatre of illusion, film denies its audience any dimension in which they might roam freely in imagination - contained by the film's framwork but unsupervised by its precise actualities - without losing the thread; thus it trains those exposed to it to identify film directly with reality [...] The required qualities of attention have become so familiar from other films and other culture products altready known to him or her that they appear automatically." (45)

Adorno, Theodor. Culture Industry (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics). Routledge, 2001.

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Internal Server Error

March 19, 2007

This is the second unstable server encounter. I apologize for any browsing issues.

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The Ice Apartment Project: Phase 1

March 18, 2007

Today, I filmed the first iteration of "The Ice Apartment" in a studio apartment on the East Side (thanks to Heather McPherson). A series of actions between four characters are shot from the four walls of the room. They will be projected, in an uncut, one-shot fashion, onto a small-scale ice room this Tuesday.

Here are some screenshots of the footage:

I had to fight the urges to do close-ups. There were some aspects of the scenes that warranted this kind of attention. I repeatedly reminded myself during the shoot: "alternative narrative. Don't cave into the conventions. Don't cave in..."

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