
Here’s the newest edition of the Soapcast, profiling the co-directors of the 2012 Soap Factory Volunteer Biennial, KnownUnKnowns.
The opening is on Saturday night and I’m very excited for it because it will feature a brand new video installation of mine entitled ‘The Problems’.
From TSF’s website:
Taking cues from social, political, and personal experiences, KnownUnKnowns examines the search for truth and the fragility of that which we believe to be real. This exhibition of local artists will showcase a wide range of media including painting, photography, installation, video, and interactive works. From a memory-shredding machine to a simulated experience of life on another planet, the featured artists take a variety of approaches to push boundaries and decipher the nature of knowledge.
Hope to see you there!
Here it is! The video I directed for local band Wild Cathedral has now been released to the world.
Luckily for us, it got featured on the City Pages ‘Local Frames’ blog post yesterday. It was a hug pleasure to work with these guys and everyone who turned out onset to dance for us were absolutely fantastic and ready for anything.
Getting ready to shoot a music video for Twin Cities band Wild Cathedral. I’ve worked with Chris Williams, one of the two main singers and songwriters from the band, previously on Keys, in which he played the younger piano player who comes upon a warehouse full of pianos.
This time around, we’re still very much going for a ramshackle, cobbled together look on this set and so far I think it looks fantastic! What you see above is a very basic shot of what the laboratory set we’ve been working on for the past few days is turning out to be.
Getting very excited about this!
My buddy and erstwhile roommate Christopher Jopp is nearing completion on his first non-student short film, The Well.
During shooting, Chris appointed yours truly as the documentarian of the process, resulting in this piece which I shot and edited. (My voice also crops up in it once and awhile.)
It was really fantastic fun to make and brought me right back to my days of filming Behind The Scenes docs of my high school theatre productions.
So if anybody needs/wants some BTS action, you now know who to call.
Getting all tingly even just seeing my name in pseudo-print—
…[Melody Gilbert] runs through some other of her favorites including “Keys” by MCAD grad Ned Hurley “It’s just this beautiful film, about a piano in a warehouse…”
It plays next week at the St. Anthony Main Theatre as part of the first program of emerging filmmakers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
Info/Tickets Here.
Following a triumphant premiere of Keys at MCAD last Friday night, we set out in earnest the next morning on shooting Dreaming Paul, my Senior Thesis film.
Starring Danny Mason, Emily Lund, Josh Boertje and Tinia Moulder, it’s going to be a fantastically funny film.
MORE VIDEO UPDATES TO COME!
Another good ‘Keys’ production still.
Working with the tremendously talented Andre Durand, who is operating the camera and with the equally talented Grant West on the keys.