Objects At Rest

explorations in audio and moving imagery

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  • RIFF: VITRVVIVS at the Rome International Film Festival

    VITRVVIVS screened during the Experimental Block at the 2009 Rome Georgia International Film Festival on September 11, 2009 at 11pm. I estimate that between 20 and 30 people attended the block. Many thanks to those that came out to see and support the experimental films at the festival. The live-action-stop-motion film cycle.break. by Stephanie Shadden was also shown in the Experimental Block and it picked up the award for best Experimental Film and it was well deserved. Congrats Stephanie!

    Mythic Journeys won the award for best American Documentary and…Mythic Journeys features the animation talents of Michael Granberry!

  • VITRVVIVS World Premier at RIFF 2009

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    VITRVVIVS will be screening at the Rome (GA) International Film Festival on Friday, September 11, 2009 at 11pm. It is part of the experimental block…and a nominee for that category!  I am humbled and excited that they selected my film.

    It looks like Mythic Journeys is also playing (and a nominee for american documentary) which includes animation by Michael Granberry!

  • Show me your movie poster…

    I decided to do a quick post of independent stopmotion animator projects with movie poster style marketing images. Send links for your project’s movie poster or others that I may have missed. My general rule for posting these is that the image has to take the form of your typical movie poster, teaser poster, or teaser card…web page banners and production stills don’t count. 😎

    Completed Projects

    Geralds Last Day
    Gerald's Last Day
    In the Fall of Gravity
    In the Fall of Gravity
    Man Drawing a Reclining Woman
    Man Drawing a Reclining Woman

    Teaser Posters and Projects in Production

    TICKS
    TICKS
    Let Sleeping Gods Lie
    Let Sleeping Gods Lie

  • 2008 Independent Animation Review

    Really cool animation-related news that took place in 2008.

    • Karl finished My Uncle’s Dental Health. Congrats Karl! I’m very much looking forward to his latest project (using binder clips – brilliant IMO) called Saint Ignatius the Beneficent.
    • Justin and Shel finished Gerald’s Last Day. Can’t wait to see it since they get a gold star for behind-the-scenes coverage with their blog, photos, and video postings.
    • Ron finished In the Fall of Gravity which I definitely want to see. OMG, he is also tinkering with 3D…check out is youtube channel!
    • Shelley continues with the Halfland project creating sets and details of beauty. Another gold star for production coverage with her tweets and blog.
    • Michael completed more of his Amberson’s series and also worked on the Mythic Journeys project…which looks fantastic!
    • Jeffrey continued to make progress on Unearthed which has great cinematography and lighting among other things. Check out the clips he’s posted thus far. He pushed through with his creative work in spite of mother nature’s decision to send more liquid wrath in his general direction!
    • Sven had his Monster Month book release party and also continued with creative animations…teasing us with experimental “landscape” animations…like that leaf or that ball…I want to see more! Look for his Let Sleeping Gods Lie project to pick back up in 2009!
    • Mike continued to provide instruction and share knowledge in animation/film via his blog and the forums. Now, if we could just see some animation…just a little bit…with those puppets!
    • Tak apparently continues to get contacted about Death of Matriarch screenings. He did mention another possible project that he might do which would be really…really…cool.
    • Justin held a fund-raising event for his next project Ticks. I’ll be very interested to see how that turns out. The teaser clip intrigues me. You can see his other films online!
    • Don finished three stopmo films in 2008! Storytime With Pram, Barrier, and Ether B.
    • Thank the stopmo gods that Lio finally got RSS feeds for stopmoworks (at least I only found out about it in 2008). Now I can catch up on his rants easier by using Google reader!
    • I finished Vitruvius and the pixels are resting silently on hard drives while I reflect on my three animations to date (Man Drawing, Sword, and Vitruvius) to determine what directions I want to pursue next.
    • If you finished an animated film or are starting one in 2009 or have news that I overlooked let me know so I can add it to the list.

  • Filmaking 2.0, Content and Metadata

    In my previous post I was pondering the impact of technologies on content in film-video productions. While searching for more examples of emergent or disruptive ideas regarding film-video making I ran across the Future of Cinema Debate on YouTube.

    It’s worth a watch, specifically for the ideas offered by Arin Crumley on the idea of metadata which he explains starting at approximately 03:19. His suggestion is a perfect example of the impact of technology on content which I referred to in my previous post.

    The moderator also touches on the concept of storytelling in new media not being so much an evolution of content but instead a mutation of content. I quite like the idea of content-hybrids or content-mutation.