Behind-the-scenes from the pick up shoot of Portraiture.
Currently in post-production!
A little promo video my roommies and I made.
ExamiNation, the short documentary film I directed last year, has been doing very well this summer in festival circuits! It is being screened at four different film festivals this summer across the U.S. and in Australia!
Check out the film festivals it screened at-
The Sound of Someone Who is Going Away and it Doesn’t Even Matter
This is my final project for my Experimental Media Productions class. The concept was to combine projection and performance, something I’ve been interested in lately. The song is by Penguin Cafe Orchestra by the same title as my piece, except I added “even” to mine.
After the initial concept, the rest of the idea came from the song, which spoke to me very strongly. Without any lyrics, the song tells a beautiful story of somebody’s loved one leaving. The song is originally an 11 minute piece, but for the purpose of the class I had to shorten it to 4 minutes.
I wanted to tell the story of separation through visual means. The one left behind performs live with the one leaving in the video.
Here’s the rear-projected video:
Dancers: Rachel Molinaro, Parker Murphy
Director of Photography: D. D. Oh
This is a semi-documentary, semi-fictional experimental piece made for a class.
Featuring my friend, Tina Abraham.
This piece came to birth through an evolution of process. The idea was sparked from the mute character in the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I started off by meeting up a friend and not speaking the entire time, and only writing out on a notepad what I had to say. She’d speak back to me, and I sound-recorded that whole process. I played around with the material I gathered from that experimentation until I arrived at a reversed situation in which my friend, who is still “talking” in the video, is mute and I, the one that was mute, is now speaking the things I wrote down.
I’m thinking about who has the power in a conversation, how much can you say by not speaking, and how much an observer can fill in the gaps to make sense of a conversation with many holes.
Stop-motion animations made for Home Between Waves
An original play based on short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
As the space designer, I chose to incorporate projected stop-motion animations as part of the design and storytelling elements. They serve as transitional elements or ambient backdrops to suggest tone, setting, or imaginative moments.
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In order of appearance:
Materials include watercolor paint, sketch paper, tracing paper, wires, magazines, laser print cut-outs, and watercolor pencils.
I attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London this past term as an affiliate student. The completely structure-less system threw me off at first, but led me to explore more freely on my own, which brought me to experimentation, happy accidents and persistent problem-solving. I ended up with this video installation project, which I presented during the Fine Art Media seminar.
The project began during a frustrating period of feeling lost at the Slade, when I checked out the Mamiya C220 medium format camera just to play around and take pictures.
While playing with this camera, I became so fascinated with the mechanism of the camera and its viewfinder, which gives me a cinematic view of everything I point at. I began to video record the viewfinder itself using my digital camera.
Through some evolution, I arrived at building that wonky camera contraption that holds the analogue and my digital camera in place together. I walked around London with this, capturing scenes of the city, and I’d get so much attention from people. I got stopped multiple times with people asking me what in the world that is, or telling me it’s amazing, or asking to take a portrait of me with it, or even for a business card.
The more significant aspect of this work was the installation than the video itself. It took me weeks and many trials to eventually arrive at this state, and I think it communicates what I want it to.
For behind the scenes…
Cadence
A Studio 22 Production. Directed by Taylor Culbertson.
I was in charge of Art Direction, in collaboration with the Production Designer Blake Paine.
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