NARRATIVE
Shot on a Canon C100 with Rokinon Prime Lenses over the course of six months in Alma, MI, FUN BOX is an exploration of addiction and its effects on the student psyche. Inspired by Requiem for a Dream and speculative fiction, this film invents an object of abuse and lets malleable minds use it as they will.
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Official selection at Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase 2017 & Made-in-Michigan Film Festival 2017.
Begun as an exercise in rhetoric camera movements, this project for the Camera Media course at Alma College turned into a loosely plotted narrative on the fly. Shot one pushes in before the man pulls away to evoke closure, shot two arcs to reveal the man’s murderer in the back seat, and shot three features the murderer crossing into a new world in the push and pan as he turns himself in. Shot on a Canon C100, Canon 16-35mm at f/5.6.
Inspired by the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood and Ray Bradbury for the Post Worlds in Post Production course at Alma College, Zero investigates a future wherein hate speech is inhumanely criminalized. Shot on a Canon C100 with a Canon 16-35mm at f/4; digital newsroom created/green screen keyed in Adobe After Effects.
Shot on a Canon C100 with a Sigma 35mm at f/1.4, Search is an experiment in aperture and focus, wherein blown-out backgrounds and precise focus pulling were the goal. Search is also an experiment in Sound Design as all of the sound effects of the film were created from scratch in a single post-production foley session.
COMMERCIAL
Cadillac IMSA Driver Pipo Derani came to town to meet with students at Detroit's Cass Tech High School and spoke, with other guests, about the career possibilities for STEM students in Motorsports.
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Shot on a Panasonic GH5 with a 35-100mm lens and a 8-18mm lens in Detroit, Michigan.
2019 Indy 500 Champion Simon Pagenaud brought his race-winning car to the brand new Menard's Store in Metro Detroit to highlight this key sponsor for Team Penske.
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Shot on a Panasonic GH5 with a 35-100mm lens and a 8-18mm lens outside Detroit, Michigan.
Shot on a Sony A7II with Zeiss and Rokinon Prime Lenses, Celebrate Student Filmmaking is an advertisement for the 2018 Pine River Student Film Festival. Exploring the process of student filmmaking from beginning to end, it aired at the NCG Theater in Alma for a month leading up to the festival. I wrote, shot, edited, and completed post-production effects for this piece of a multi-media promotional campaign.
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Visit pineriverstudentfilmfestival.com for more information.
DOCUMENTARY
Created for the “Blindspots” project of the Camera Media course at Alma College, this micro-experiment attempts to discover Kracaur’s filmic writings on ‘refuse’ and the camera’s unique ability to display the unseen, especially the non-glamourous, and find new truth in it. Shot in Alma, MI on a Canon Rebel T5i with a Canon 40mm at f/2.8.
Written and created as the final film club project of the year, "Untradish Fish" is a mockumentary that explores the absurdity of professional sports, and the lengths one team of terrible fishermen will go to ensure their spot in history. Shot in Alma, MI on a Canon C100 with a Canon 24-105mm f/4; editing and sound by Patrick Mallett.
Shot in Rome, Italy on a Canon Rebel T5i, this short experiment explores the world underneath one of the oldest cities on Earth. Inspired by the writings of Italo Calvino, Underneath was edited on trains and busses during the Backpack Filmmaking course at Alma College, which traveled to four Italian destinations exploring Sensory Ethnographic documentary filmmaking.