Machete – Kisumontao documentary editing continues! Online release is pushed back until New Year’s Day – kick off 2015!!!
And don’t forget, Machete is playing First Night downtown at CAPA between 7 & 11 pm, 3 performances!
Licht Ex ~ 12/27
Since it is my birthday today, and I completed Licht Ex, one of my favorite pieces (which also screened during the April 2014 Gallery Crawl in downtown Pittsburgh), on my birthday in 2013, I thought I’d re-post it today!
New video: workworkworkwork
Re-edit of a collection of workers filmed by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, who studied workers’ motions in order to improve efficiency. He was also the central character in Cheaper by the Dozen.
Despite research into how to improve the ways in which workers do their work (Gilbreth wanted to improve conditions for workers, but some of his contemporaries just wanted to increase profits, rather than concern themselves with workers’ welfare), it still seems rather unnatural for human beings to be doing repetitive tasks, like a machine. In modern times, we hear about workers in factories being forced to do repetitive tasks in sterile conditions, without breaks or time to feel…human. Many have, sadly, killed themselves.
This is a short piece, showing the monotony and repetitiveness, seemingly driven by Gilbreth’s motion clock. It is also a study in early industry, which some may say was the beginning of the end of art in making things.
Machete Kisumontao at First Night 2014!
New Year’s Eve performances! I’ll be filming for the extended documentary at 7 & 8:45! Gonna be a fun time!!!
New video: pittsburgh lightscape – exp
Images I captured on my phone and point & shoot of downtown Pittsburgh lights + other night life. 🙂
Some photos blurred in such a way it reminded me of impressionist art.
And I layered some video taken on the incline and elsewhere to create some cool images.
Music: Orion by Livio Mosca from En Route! a compilation of French Electrodisco
Two new experimental films on the way!
While working on completing the Machete Kisumontao documentary short, I finished up 2 more experimental films, one called “pittsburgh lightscape” which includes footage I shot on my phone and point & shoot camera (lol) and “workworkworkwork” a re-edit of archival film about repetitive work.
Will post both soon!
Machete Kisumontao el Documental – Trailer!
From machetedoc.wordpress.com <– follow my blog here or there for email updates on this ongoing documentary project!
http://machetedoc.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/machete-kisumontao-el-documental-trailer/
Why Volunteer with NLA? video
I was honored to work with Rachel & NLA on getting this volunteer video completed – by volunteering to do it!
Machete – Kisumontao Documentary Project – New Site
I started a separate wordpress site for the upcoming Machete – Kisumontao documentary short due out by Dec 31, 2014 (with hopes for a feature in 2015).
The trailer for the short will be out in about a week!
Stay tuned here and you may also follow machetedoc.wordpress.com to get updates for that specific project. Â I’ll also be adding production information, stills and other updates there for sure.
My latest post to that site, which tells a little bit more about the project:
http://machetedoc.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/a-little-more-of-the-story/
Spinning Goat Productions 