Project: Sundance Co//ab Directing Core Final
Role: Director
Project Details: Part of the Sundance Collab Director's series, we were given three pages of dialog with the following rules: we weren't allowed to touch a word on the page.
Project: Alienation
Role: Writer, Director, Producer
Project Details: After her perfectly curated online life falls apart, influencer Ashlyn Vallée sets out to find out who she really is… by embarking on a UFO road trip. What else will she find? Cinematography David Auner, aac, promotional video featuring Isabel Hepburn Official film website: Alienation
Project: The Not
Role: Writer, Director, Producer
Project Details: 35mm. A reluctant bride is called away from her wedding reception by magical forces… Currently in post production. “The Not” on IMdb Starring Danielle LaRauf, Jose Infante, Brenna Dixon, and Brad Bishop. Cinematography David Auner, aac
Project: Snowbird
Role: Director, editor, writer, producer
Project Details: Short film shot on 16mm. Working with a minimal budget, created this piece from storyboarding through negative scanning, color correction and editing. Film aired on the Independent Film Channel in 2003 and was screened at the Cannes Film Market in 2005. Was recently included in a Boulder area filmmakers retrospective at the Dairy Center for the Arts.
Project: Bad Robot Productions contest- tie-in with Cloverfield promotion. The contest was to make a commercial for the fictional drink slusho.
Details: Grand prize winner of a custom Alienware laptop! This was a personal project. I served as director, producer, actor, editor, writer, 3D modeler based on 2D assets from the slusho website, texture artist, animator, and compositor, FX artist...
Role: Artist, photographer
Project Details: I’m fascinated by what we cannot see. Dark matter, non-visible-light astronomy, and the hidden dimensions just out of reach in our daily lives. These pieces are part sculpture, part painting, part macro photography, and part science. Using various techniques, I highlight the beauty found in the transparent stuff one would normally throw in the trash or wash down the drain. I have used this technique throughout my experimental 16mm films, as well. In still photography, I wanted to highlight the landscape quality found in these overlooked pieces of trash.
Project: "Sugar Shoot"
Photographer: Geneva Z. Bailey
Role: Sugar Vampire
Project Details: An exploration of the night and an unexpected sugar rush. Flickr album at Geneva Z. Bailey’s Flickr site
Project: My Two Brads (sitcom spoof)
Description: Comedy video group spoofing the sitcom genre explores the one-joke format. A woman has two roommates named Brad. Binge the whole series in less than ten minutes! Mostly an experiment in laugh track editing. Based on actual events.
Roles: Actor, director, writer, title sequence motion graphics, editor, sound fx, so much laugh track, visual fx.
Project: "The Galilean Satellites"
Role: Director, producer
Project Details: By far the most popular of my four-series 16mm film project dedicated to friend and mentor Stan Brakhage. The series employs recordings from the Voyager space probes, as well as more recent missions to the Jovian system. The sounds range from musical to chaotic. An abstract expression of the “personalities” of both the moons and the gods with whom they share their names, the series makes use of various plastics and liquid crystals, heated, stretched and tormented into life, just as these mini-planets are. It debuted at the New York International Film Festival and went on to play at over a dozen festivals all over the world, including most recently in South Korea.
Project: Talent Keyhole (Feature Film)
Description: Kassandra, a brilliant scientist, is recruited into a defense contractor's top secret SCIF where she's entangled in a dangerous espionage mission. Directed by Michael Lauter and starring Kris Luna, Karli Isabella Stunkel, Daustin Harvey, Janessa Ho, Jeremy Barnes, and Tamara Bailey.
Roles: Producer, FX Artist, Prop Master, Actor
Project: "Through The Looking-Glass"
Photographer: Geneva Z. Bailey
Role: Caterpillar
Project Details: A photographic exploration and artistic interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland world. I’ve never aspired to be an actor or a model. I’m usually more at home behind the camera, but it’s such a joy to immerse myself in another artist’s vision and “play.” I do it whenever I get the chance.
Description: My demo reel highlighting some of my 3D and VFX work. Work has appeared in several shorts and commercials and one feature-length film.
Tools: Maya, AfterEffects, Premiere, Unity
Project: "Balloon Warrior"
Photographer: Geneva Z. Bailey
Role: Warrior/Concept
Project Details: I’ve always been afraid of balloons. I know, it sounds crazy, but it’s a long story (and also a real thing- check out “globophobia”). I was about to embark on a solo journey halfway across the country and I needed a major self esteem boost. I was also studying for my black belt in Kung Fu. I had the idea to take some of my (not at all sharp) Kung Fu weapons and burst some balloons. My photographer wanted to capture the moment. However, the weather, light, weapons, atmosphere, were all so perfect we decided to turn it into a full-on photo shoot!
When I am not capturing moving images, I enjoy trying to create movement and electricity in still photography.
