Yopo – Motion Poetry by Method Studios


A Film by: Method Design
Directed by: Ivan Girard
Creative Director: Jon Noorlander
CG Supervisor: Ivan Guerrero
Executive Producer: Angela Lupo
Producers: Emily Schaeberle, Adrienne Mitchell, Heather Saunders
Coordinator: Elias Bermudez
CG Lead: Sari Rodrig
Animators: Matt Hackett, Will Robinson, Sean Curran, Carlos Sandoval, Paul Wei, Sam Crees
Rigging: Ohan Bracha, Frank Naranjo
Modelers: Brian Di Noto, Orges Kokoshari, Piotr Glabinski, Ohad Bracha
Lighters: Claire Yawen Chang, Hubert Wozniak, Kevin Lu, Michael Marsek, Eric Xi
FX Lead: Tomas Slancik
FX Artists: Zach Lewis, Jeongyeon Son, Vraja Parra
Compositing Lead: Robert Nick Dauphinais
Compositing: Dave Chen, Urpsh Otashevich

Motion Poems:
Executive Producers: Todd Boss, Egg Creative, Lisa Effuses

“Monsters” by: Dorothea Lasky
“Monsters” by Dorothea Lasky, from Awe. Copyright © 2007 by Dorothea Lasky. Reprinted by permission of Wave Books.

Sound Recoded at: Digital Island Studios
Voice over: Isabel Guerrero
Original Score: Don Fierro & Emily Hope Price
Sound Design: Don Fierro
Cellist: Emily Hope Price

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Lil Dicky – Pillow Talking feat. Brain (Official Music Video) by Giant Propeller


Lil Dicky Pillow Talking Music Video
Created by Giant Propeller – http://ift.tt/2cDVt6L

Written and Performed by Lil Dicky/Dave Burd
„Pillow Talking“ produced by Charlie Handsome and the Digital Rick Flair aka Digi

Directed by Tony Yacenda http://ift.tt/1KsXo5M

Starring Dave Burd, Taylor Misiak and Brain

Director of Photography – Alan Gwizdowski

Edited by Brian Vannucci

Production Design – Cody Fusina

Production and Visual Effects by Giant Propeller http://ift.tt/1vUx3sc

Executive Produced by Jordan Freda and Mike Bodkin

Produced by Tom Quinn

VFX and Post Producer – Oscar Velasquez

VFX Supervisor – Marek Jezo

First AD – Lyon Reese
Script Supervisor – Sara Geralds

Cast
Lil Dicky – Dave Burd
Girl – Taylor Misiak
Brain – Brain
God – John C Reilly
Soldiers – Owen Rousu, Derek Pratt, Carlos Lopez, Isaac Lopez, Kiyano La’vin, Nick Coolidge, Sean Carrigan, PJ McCabe

Crew
Camera First Assistant – Erin Douglass
Camera Second Assistant – Sarah Grenwald
MOCO – Simon Wakely
MOCO Assistant – Chris Toth
DIT (Digital Imaging Technician) – Daniel Woiwode
DIT Assistant – Alessia Assissi
Art Director – Taylor Frost
Set Dresser – Tao Grasham
Property Master – Taylor Wolf
Gaffer – David Cronin
Key Grip – Kevin Keirstead
Best Boy Grip – Vassily
Grip PA – Jason Kierstead
Wardrobe Stylist – Kassey Rich
Hair and Make Up Artist – Liza Lash
BTS Photographer – Yulia Shcherbinina
Office Production Assistant – Eric Cepeda
Set Production Assistants – Lars Slind, Alexxa Slind, Vickram Bhoyrul
Board Operator – Phil Gailer
Playback – Bob Tiwana
Choreographer – Ian Eastwood https://www.youtube.com/user/DJIcon
Casting by Kerry Baker
Catering by Diane Timmons
Animal Trainers – Barbara Edrington, Chris Edrington, Heather Long

Second Unit
First Assistant Director – Boma Pennebaker
Second Assistant Director – Colin Weinburg
Director of Photography – Steeven Petitteville
Camera First Assistant – Melissa Spom
DIT (Digital Imaging Technician) – Joe Hedge
Art Director – Joel Sappington
Gaffer – Ace Underhill
Key Grip – David Nunez
Best Boy Electric – Ian Crawley
Dolly Grip – Mikey Gilmore
Armorer – Logan Freda
Wardrobe Stylist – Heather Flores
Hair and Make Up Artist – Kseniya Durst
Still Photographer – Morgan Schmidt
VFX Supervisor – Marek Jezo
Production Coordinator – Rachael Campbell
CG Lead – Lubomir Timko
Lead Compositor – Adam Dusa
Compositor – Oliver Popellar
Matchmove and Roto Artist – Lhbomir Jezo
2D Artist – Rober Hruska
3D Artist – Raphaela Klein
Concept Artist – Byzwa Dher
FX Artist – Ondrej Polacek, Mikas Saduskas
3D Artist – Rober Spicuk, Tomas Krizan, Dominik Liscak, Oliver Otruba, Martin Kaperak, Lukas Jankovcin, Rudo Herstek, Erik Mascak
Animator – Tomas Danay, Andrea Jacevicova, Adam Sadion, Vladimir Krajniak, Lukas Figel, Marian Villaris, Standa Sekela
Animation – Samuel Puchovsky, Martin Durmik
Storyboard Artists – Mishi McCaig, David Green
Pre-Vis Artists – Vlad Streitsov, Omrah Menkes
Post Production Company – Giant Propellor
Colorist – Sebastian Perez-Burchard
Post Producer – Oscar Valezquez
Audio Post Services – Voodoo Highway
Sound Designer – Davis Brian Kelly
Re-Recording Mixer – Richard Segal

Thank you to MeUndies http://www.meundies.com

CASSINI’S GRAND FINALE by Erik Wernquist


CASSINI’S GRAND FINALE is a short film I had the great honor to produce for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) about the spectacular ending of the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn. It is meant as an inspirational and informative piece about what happens in the last months of the mission, and as a celebration of all that this historic spacecraft has achieved.

Here is an article from JPL on the production of the film: http://ift.tt/2nu8DYi

For the official JPL release of the film, please turn here:
http://ift.tt/2oYSEh2
or go directly to the official JPL YouTube video here:

For the official NASA release, please turn here:
http://ift.tt/2nZxl1a

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft (launched in 1997) has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004 exploring the giant planet, its spectacular system of rings and moons. Cassini was also carrying with it the European Huygens Probe which was dispatched after arrival and successfully landed on the moon Titan, becoming the first human made craft to land on a surface in the outer solar system.
In 2017 – after more than a decade of bringing home remarkably successful scientific achievements, discoveries and a treasury of gorgeous photos – the spacecraft is running out of fuel to maneuver. In order to protect the moons Enceladus and Titan, and their potentially life-bearing sub surface oceans, from possible contamination in the unlikely event of a future collision, it has been decided to take Cassini permanently out of service. This is done by crashing the spacecraft into the atmosphere of Saturn – but not without doing some amazing science on the way.
22 times, Cassini dives through previously unexplored gap between Saturn and its rings, collecting new data on the mass of the rings (used to help determine their age), measurements of Saturn’s gravity and magnetic fields (used to help understanding its internal structure) and sending home stunning views of Saturn’s clouds and the rings – seen from a closer range than ever before.
Even up until the very end, Cassini will bring home data, as it tastes the atmosphere of Saturn, just minutes before burning up and becoming part of the planet itself.

It has been an unprecedented honor for me to get to do this film. Being a passionate enthusiast of planetary science, Cassini is the one mission – more than any other – to define my interest in the field, as I’ve had the pleasure to follow its success, from start to end, for a major part of my adult life.

For more information about the Cassini mission and its Grand Finale, please turn here:
http://ift.tt/1rJDu0Q

CREDITS:
DIRECTOR – Erik Wernquist
PRODUCERS – Preston Dyches (JPL), Stephen Epstein (JPL)
MUSIC – Cristian Sandquist
WRITER – Preston Dyches (JPL)
NARRATOR – Stephanie Czajkowski
COLORIST – Caj Müller
EDITOR – Micke Lindgren
VISUALS COMPOSITING & PRODUCTION – Erik Wernquist
CASSINI MODELING – Svante Segelson
CASSINI SHADING, TEXTURES & DYNAMICS – Per Jonsson
SATURN BACKGROUND PAINTINGS – Greg Martin
TITLES – Mikael Hall
ADDITIONAL TEXTURES & BACKGROUNS – Svante Segelson
ADDITIONAL COMPOSITING & PARTICLES – Mikael Hall

Thank you NASA, JPL, ESA and the entire Cassini/Huygens team for making such a wonderful, successful and inspiring mission.

And especially; thank you Cassini, and farewell.
The solar system will feel empty without you.

Headless by Sebastian Sdaigui


A candid portrait of three hedonistic queer performers living in New York

http://ift.tt/2o4WvZ8

STARRING:
Jean Carlos Pinae
Cesar Garcia
Infinit Coles

CREDITS :
DIRECTOR : Sebastian Sdaigui
PRODUCER: Alanna Harrington
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Chelsea Donini
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Carol Garlick
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Toryn SeaBrooks
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Geoffrey Taylor
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Conor Murphy
1ST AC: Megaera Stephens
1ST AC: Sam Wolff
EDITOR: Jordan Rosenbloom
BOOM OP: Fernando „Frandy“ Castillo
SOUND DESIGN: Mihir Chitale
COLORIST: Josh Bohoskey
ANIMATION: Rebecca Shapass
FONTS: William Cooper

MUSIC:
Princess Nokia „Tomboy“
Death Grip „LSDXOXO“

PRODUCTION : GOODFORNOTHINGFILMS

NOWNESS 2017

MAMI WATA · WOZA by Mami Wata


“Woza” („Come“ in Zulu) tells the story of an African surfer who has been taken as a lover by the African water spirit Mami Wata. It features 22 year-old Transkei surfer, Avuyile Ndamase.

Client: Mami Wata
Agency: Mami Wata in-house
Creative Director & Art Director: Peet Pienaar
Copywriters: Peet Pienaar, Nick Dutton, Andy Davis

Production company: Pantera (Buenos Aires)
Shot and directed by Pato Martinez & Francisco Canton
Producer: Manu Aguer
Music Composer / Sound Design: Vittorio Giampietro
Color Grading: Oisin O’Driscoll @ The Mill (London)
Underwater DOP: Calvin Thompson
Talent: Avuyile Ndamase, Holly Armstrong

Special thanks:
Jaco Bouwer
Samora Chapman
Maximo Bustillo
Stefan Naude
Alex Morrison
Linda (security)

Featuring Music by BCUC (Soweto) “Asazani”

Howler Monkey by Meier & Erdmann by Víctor Doval


Official videoclip for the track Howler Monkey by Meier & Erdmann Released on the Moniker Eggplant Label (http://ift.tt/2ggzIX4). Video created by Victor Doval (http://ift.tt/1nYHP7y).

The video shows a landscape created synchronously with the music. The generation of the visuals is based on the sound spectrum. The diverse frequency bands have been used to algorithmically define the visual parameters such as geometries, materials and lightings.
Through this sonic analysis and spectral decomposition each element and texture of the track has been visually processed.
The whole sequence has been created in a procedural way where the definition of every part has been based on mathematical integrations.
To manage all this data flow I worked with Processing and Blender. The Blender add-on Sverchok has been the cornerstone in the creation and transformation of the geometry.

The initial idea came from the understanding of music as a temporal journey, a changing landscape that is perceived via the ears. The track Howler Monkey written and performed by Meier & Erdmann invites the listener to travel through the subjective/individual and the abstract.
The harmonic evolution of the track is associated with a 24 hour time lapse experienced in 290 seconds. From sunrise to sunrise the video offers a dreamy trip that opens doors for contemplation and to emotions the track might evoke.

Check Meier & Erdmann’s album – The ‚Howler Monkey‘ LP: http://ift.tt/2oR3yJG

Check my other procedural works and gif experiments: http://ift.tt/2p1DIjf

Check Meier & Erdmann on soundcloud: http://ift.tt/2oT0MUp

IDAC by Casimir Nozkowski


Screenings:
2016 Hot Docs Film Festival premiere
2016 Rooftop Films
2016 Vassar Filmfest
2016 Iron Mule Film Festival
2017 Sarasota Film Festival

Synopsis: When I was leaving for college, my aunt Dana told me I had a cousin I’d never met who was matriculating in the same year as me. We shared classes and had friends in common but for some strange reason I never introduced myself. All during college, and then into the real world, through a decade of overlapping connections, we never met. This film is an examination of that hesitation and an attempt to understand why I never made the easiest connection in the world… until it was too late. Through archival footage and re-enactment of the era in question, IDAC is ultimately a documentary about what was happening on an unconscious level and how distant a relative can be even when they’re right in front of your face.

Written/Directed/Edited by Casimir Nozkowski
Music by Alexander Strung
Sound Mix by Tod Chapman
Color Grading by Phil Choe @ Nice Shoes
Featuring Hannah Bos, Amanda Duarte, Erin Edmison, Josh Henderson-Cox, Greg Glassman, Thomas Nozkowski, Joyce Robins
Thank you Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Production Notes: I’ve made over 100 short films, many of which examine issues of family, the blurry line between fiction and non-fiction and the sometimes disturbing, sometimes hilarious ways our memories fail us. IDAC is an autobiographical documentary which is a genre my movies (or at least parts of them) often fall into. The key with autobiography in my opinion is to avoid being sentimental at all costs. This does not mean you can’t be funny or can’t be authentic and personal – it’s just that it being your story does not automatically make it interesting. On top of that, IDAC also considers the way we dream and the way dreams can invade our everyday life – which is another subject matter that can easily steer a film awry. So making IDAC was exciting because once mindful of all these pitfalls, there was an enormous feeling of restraint that coursed through the documentary’s production. My hope is that people who see my film IDAC recognize familiar moments and feelings from their own lives: memories they can’t quite explain, people they think they know and dramatic, life-defining events that upon further scrutiny don’t exactly add up as neatly as they once thought.

See more of my films at vimeo and at casimirnozkowski.com

Mile 19 by Big Pup Film


Some people run for exercise and others for competition, but Johnnie Jameson runs to heal. Whether it’s the barista at your coffee shop, the valet parking your car, or the mailman who comes to your door, there are extraordinary people behind every ordinary job. Johnnie is one of them.

For more information visit: www.mile19.com

Featuring: Johnnie Jameson
Director, Editor: Vincent DeLuca // Big Pup Film
Producer: Jemma Davis
DP, Editor: Karee Maxson // Big Pup Film
Associate Producer: Trevor Hall
Additional Camera: Zach Gouz
Music Supervisor: Dan Gross
Audio Post: One Thousand Birds
Sound Supervisor: Andrew Tracy
Sound Design/Mix: Calvin Pia
Production Managers: Ethan Downing, Hayley Pappas
Colorist: Gabriele Turchi
Visual Effects: Sam Sullivant
Production Secretary: Timothy Miller

Music By:
„I Ain’t the Same“ – Alabama Shakes
„Be My Girl“ – El Goodo
„Man on Fire“ – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros