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Spoon Dog
For the very few: "Spoon Dog" A Surrealistic, emotionally raw, nightmare. Intense surrealistic drama in the style of Lynch, Kafka, Luis Buñuel and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Not for the faint of heart. Written and Directed by Christopher Dinnan. |
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Here Lies in the afterlife
A funeral, the celebration of a lifetime. Granny is gone. Here we are before the great mystery of death, the physical death, inevitable passage we all WATCH NOW HERE |
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Immiscible
Two people fueled by love and hate fight to make their romantic interest work, but despite their efforts fail to find the touch that brought them together. |
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Forgiveness
A patient is attending a session with his hypnotherapist.The purpose is to travel back to childhood through the milestones of the whole past life.We can feel the conflict and the complexity.The theme is waking hypnosis.The first step is the pre-talk while the therapist prepares the patient for the long journey.Then comes the induction which is the familiarization and training to carry on with the journey.Last comes the regression towards the past while the patient tries to forgive-by force & the hypnotherapist's simulation-perpetrated sins & harm that was done by others to him.And this is the only means to live in peace and harmony.Latest will be future pacing in the trip back from past to the present and ultimately deriving conclusion for a peaceful, harmonious future.N*B: All scenes are illustrated in SFX, VFX and surrealistic atmosphere. |
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World Wide Women
"World Wide Women" is a video installation that focuses solely on its subject: the woman. Conceptually speaking, the video shows woman's evolution, as a person, from the dawn of time till present day. A woman is not defined by a man, nor by his actions. |
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What we do when we are alone
Drilling, scratching, pressing, investigation is "What we do when we are alone". The little things we never share with anyone, since they mostly arise purely by chance, quickly over and which seem to be incredibly intimate. Often we do not even think about it , we just do it. The film is a screen provide the enabling viewers during the look about themselves and to ponder one's own behavior with your own body . |
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Synthase
A journey through a microbial landscape reveals a bizarre and abnormally infectious at large. |
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Frequences
Frequence is a project that wants an immersive experience through a surreal world uniting sound and image to live an emotional experience. Frequence is a musical journey of a fictional musical instrument made by a group of 8 students from the NAD with video game tool. |
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Remember Cuba
A sexy journey through the memories of two lovers through one night in Cuba. WATCH NOW https://vimeo.com/145943977 |
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They Envy Animals that Roam
They Envy Animals that Roam is a short experimental piece addressing how humans are slaves for treasured paper and our constructed lifestyles that we've created as a result of our will to conform. It particularly highlights our desire for freedom in a very cinematic way. |
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Orientating
Orientating examines my complicated relationship to technology by kicking a video camera down streets in Chicago, recording its impact, until the machine is no longer able to record. The deliberate gesture of kicking the video camera devalues it, representing my frustrated everyday dependence on digital devices. I view the video camera as an extension of myself, an artificial sensory organ, and how it interprets the world. This experimental performance brings attention to the apparatus, its perception of me, myself and my relationship to the apparatus. These positions are inverted from the first-person perspective of the video camera, returning its distorted gaze back upon me. WATCH NOW https://vimeo.com/150624880 |
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Survivor
Inspired by the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' publications, engage with the story of Tanya Hayes, set to become the worlds 1st female US Navy Seal in history. Choose her weapon, her route and her ending. Private Tanya Hayes is a career soldier with a sad history. Her only family killed in the line of duty has resulted in a drug addiction she uses to fight the anxiety until its relapses take an unexpected turn in a training exercise forcing her to confront the torment of her brother's memory & exposing a military conspiracy. |
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Beating Death
An animated adaptation rotoscoped from the Academy Award nominated short film of 1968 "De Duva", that is itself a parody of, and homage to, several of Ingmar Bergman's most noted feature films, including "Wild Strawberries" and "The Seventh Seal". The fate of a brother and sister hang in the balance of a badminton game with death. |
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Splice Tape Decay
This cameraless animation is in part a study of the decay of film in our digital age. The imagery is applied, burned, painted, punched, scraped, scratched, smeared, and stenciled onto a variety of black & clear leader, print & neg, found footage, and old hi-con matt roll stock. Once created, the film imagery was transferred to a digital HD file at Technicolor in NYC on a Spirit. The imagery was then edited and enhanced via After Effects by Glenn Rinnier. The music is "Imperials" by Ratatat with additional sound design by Ricky Christian. |
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Nightmares
This animated exquisite corpse, or Anijam, was created with the students in my 2013 Experimental Animation class at Pratt Institute. The chosen theme for the anijam was nightmares and each student created a segment for the film that was both, a disturbing vision, and an example of an alternative approach to animation. They worked in any medium or style they wanted to create the film's body parts and then I stitched them all together with some lightning and screaming skulls. |
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Syncretic Noise
A man dances secluded from a city at battle with itself. Defying conventional logic and storytelling, layered soundscapes and symbolic visuals fuel the dark atmosphere. In a hyper society portrayed in time-lapses the dancer's natural motion continues across cuts over discontinuities of space from forest landscapes to gritty urban life. |
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OPHELIA DID NOT DROWN
OFELIA NON ANNEGA (Ophelia did not drown) is an experimental film which reinterprets with a surrealist twist the epic of the Shakespearean drama, but from the point of view of young Ophelia. The film was produced in collaboration with Istituto Luce Cinecittà - the national film archive devoted to the documentation of Italian society since 1927 - and integrates on a metalinguistic level heterogeneous and seemingly incompatible languages: the sociological national archive and original performance art designed and staged by Francesca Fini expressly for this project. |
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The Melancholy Spirit
Esoteric and existential art-film in which a model mentally unravels while working with an overbearing photographer and beings to questions her own mortality |
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Now Appearing in Bucharest
Bucharest may or may not be the Paris of the East, but it certainly is a daily dance between history and the present. In this short experimental film a montage of concert posters announcing upcoming performances dance their inevitable passage into the past... a meditation on the precarity of the popular… loose change from a libidinal economy. |
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Vanitas Vanitatum
"Vanitas vanitatum." (Vanity of vanities), inspired by vanitas painting and the imagery of tarot game, deals with the transition from life to death. Composed as a short visual fairy tale, it evokes the fugacity of beauty and the ineluctable and tragic aspect of ageing. This project is also a technical exploration of what could be called « motion photography ». Indeed, the smooth succession of the photographs breathes motion into them, which aims to create an intriguing mix between still and motion picture. WATCH NOW https://vimeo.com/142371393 |
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