“This is a pretty recent video compared to a lot of other posts lately, released about three months ago as of writing this. Definitely one of my favorite projects we’ve done, and strangely one of the more stressful…”
“This week I will be discussing the feature film Creep. If you’ve already seen it, then just go ahead and watch the sequel (Creep 2, also available on Netflix). If you’ve already seen both of them, then I don’t know what I can do for you. Go be pretentious somewhere else, this is my corner of the internet…”
“Inspired by the novel “The Double” by Jose Saramago, Enemy belongs to a unique, and probably pretentious brand of cinema. One seemingly disinterested with the audience as a whole, disregarding the concept of entertainment in lieu of being a meditation on the behalf of the director. An abstract, often on what it means to be a member of today's society, a single cell in service to a far larger organism…”
“I was lucky enough to catch Una during its limited run in theaters last year and it immediately ranked as one of my favorite films released in 2017. I am ecstatic to see that it is now available for viewing on Netflix, and available to a wider audience…”
“One common trait most great films have in common is harnessing each and every aspect of cinema as a medium, and focusing them all toward a consistent theme or tone. This week I will be examining the film Heaven Knows What, and its relation to this fairly simplistic formula….”
"This was kind of a tricky setup. The day before production, we decided we wanted the master to dolly in on the clerk and pan over to Tut as he reaches in to grab his room key. This meant that we couldn’t place any stands on the far side of camera where we were motivating the key from….”
"In late 2014, videos began to surface on the internet of a Norwegian man instigating fights with strangers in public. Taunting strangers into lashing out and assaulting him, his only clear goal seemed to be viral fame, which he quickly achieved. He became one of the countless “microsecond celebrities” internet culture has become so skilled at crafting…”
“This was only the second or third project we did after graduating and wanted to focus on shooting in a lot of natural environments, utilizing natural light as much as possible. I think there are only 12-15 shots in the entire video.”
"Released in the early 90s, Paris is Burning is more easily defined as an intimate and tragic portrait than a traditional documentary. Examining the burgeoning NYC drag scene of the Mid-80s, it is primarily driven by interviews with various founders of the movement. Although the film starts as an explanation of the New York Ball scene, defining terms such as "Voguing" and "Houses", it quickly becomes an intimate portrait of the figures who helped to define the drag movement as a whole….”
“This was my intro into not thinking about key and fill like a dummy, mostly thanks to suggestions from our gaffer Gilbert. This scene had a big wash of warmer-sodium light coming from key side, and then a police light gag playing as a backlight. This was in 2016, so southern AZ didn’t really have m18’s or skypanels or anything like that yet.”
"Krisha was the directorial debut of Trey Shults, who also stars as one of the leads. The reason I chose to start with this film is because if you are a filmmaker less successful than Trey Shults, then there is ABSOLUTELY at least one thing you can take away from this movie and apply to your craft.”