Stay Close by Luther

Stay Close by Luther

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An underdog fencer from Brooklyn overcomes a gauntlet of hardships on the road to the Olympics. ** Directed by Luther Clement and Shuhan Fan Produced by Nevo Shinaar **NOMINEE – Cinema Eye Honors 2020** **WINNER – Directing Award – DOC NYC Shortlist: Shorts 2019** **Official Selection – Sundance Film Festival 2019** **Official Selection – SF Doc Stories 2019** **Official Selection – AFI Docs 2019** **Rooftop Films Summer Series 2019** **Official Selection – Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2019** **Official Selection – Chicago International Film Festival 2019** **Official Selection – St. Louis International Film Festival 2019** **Official Selection – Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 2019** **Supported by Tribeca Film Institute / ESPN Short Documentary Program** *ALSO WATCH ON* POV Shorts amdoc.org/watch/stayclose/ NY Times Op-Docs nytimes.com/2019/10/14/opinion/fencing-olympics-stay-close.html More info: https://ift.tt/2SrShxH

Uploaded 2019-12-24T15:09:33.000Z

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Rehearsal by Courtney Hope Thérond

Rehearsal by Courtney Hope Thérond

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A film crew for an upcoming feature film pushes the boundaries of consent during a courtesy rehearsal for its female lead. Written & Directed by Courtney Hope Thérond (www.courtneytherond.com) Director of Photography: Amanda Treyz Produced by Nicole Crespo, Courtney Hope Thérond, Jessica Mendez Siqueiros Starring: Jessica Mendez Siqueiros, Clinton Lowe, Alexander Chard, Alex Portenko Official Selection: 2019 BFI London Film Festival 2019 New Orleans Film Festival 2019 Encounters Film Festival 2019 Nashville Film Festival 2019 Athens Film + Video Festival 2019 Aesthetica Film Festival 2019 River Run Film Festival 2019 Indie Memphis 2019 Tacoma Film Festival 2019 Sidewalk Film Festival 2019 Oak Cliff Film Festival 2019 Charlotte Film Festival 2019 Woods Hole Film Festival 2019 Bushwick Film Festival 2019 Salute Your Shorts Film Festival 2019 SF Indie Film Festival 2019 DTLA Film Festival 2020 Tenerife Short Film Festival

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Rehearsal by Courtney Hope Thérond

Rehearsal by Courtney Hope Thérond

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A film crew for an upcoming feature film pushes the boundaries of consent during a courtesy rehearsal for its female lead. Written & Directed by Courtney Hope Thérond (www.courtneytherond.com) Director of Photography: Amanda Treyz Produced by Nicole Crespo, Courtney Hope Thérond, Jessica Mendez Siqueiros Starring: Jessica Mendez Siqueiros, Clinton Lowe, Alexander Chard, Alex Portenko Official Selection: 2019 BFI London Film Festival 2019 New Orleans Film Festival 2019 Encounters Film Festival 2019 Nashville Film Festival 2019 Athens Film + Video Festival 2019 Aesthetica Film Festival 2019 River Run Film Festival 2019 Indie Memphis 2019 Tacoma Film Festival 2019 Sidewalk Film Festival 2019 Oak Cliff Film Festival 2019 Charlotte Film Festival 2019 Woods Hole Film Festival 2019 Bushwick Film Festival 2019 Salute Your Shorts Film Festival 2019 SF Indie Film Festival 2019 DTLA Film Festival 2020 Tenerife Short Film Festival

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Max Cooper - LET THERE BE by Thomas Vanz

Max Cooper - LET THERE BE by Thomas Vanz

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Stream/download 'Yearning for the Infinite': https://ift.tt/2NYiIIQ Thomas Vanz: "For "Let there Be", Max asked me to think about the two key words "infinite" and "birth of humanity". Everything came naturally to this process I was working on, involving two types of liquids blending in forever, progressively. I choose to represent the light of Kabbalah that Max once told me about, blending a very luminous and pearly white with a very dark black. Once I had a satisfying shot, I added with Max a variety of neolithic paintings and illustrations spreading out from the center where the lights were coming from. The final result represents an infinite light spraying all over darkness, as the birth of reason and mankind." Follow Thomas on Instagram: https://ift.tt/2B9Pnl4 Max Cooper: "I wanted to start the project with the earliest visual example of the infinite I could find reference to - the bright white light of Kabbalah. The magician of liquid systems, Thomas Vanz told me he had a new secret recipe which could deliver what I needed, so I set about scoring to this idea based around what I know of Thomas’ work. The whole project functioned in this way, starting with my written descriptions of each chapter, then finding a visual artist to carry out that side of things, while in parallel I scored the music to the imagined final result. At some point down the line the first visual and musical sketches arrived and things could be refined at each end to marry the music and visual together seamlessly. The music for this chapter needed something with a feeling of grandeur and space, mysteriousness and mysticism. It all came down to some really sparse drawn out chords and plenty of different layers of saturation with pedals (plenty of Metasonix F1, Moogerfooger overdrive, Industrialelctric RM1N, Fairfield Circuitry Meet Maude, WMD Geiger Counter), with smatterings of more distorted hits running through a heavy (Big Sky) plate reverb to punctuate the scale even more. Visually, we complemented Thomas’ growing light animation with ancient cave painting imagery in order to tie the visual abstraction to the human story, and the birth of our yearning for the infinite. For the live show I use two layers of screens to first show the structure hovering in front of stage, then to slowly reveal the rear backlit screen and my position between them, as a means of slowly adding a 3-dimensional depth effect as the music and visual peaks." Follow Max Cooper: https://ift.tt/1TJ2kXv https://ift.tt/2XKbwmN https://maxcooper.net/

Uploaded 2019-11-21T12:59:39.000Z

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Max Cooper - LET THERE BE by Thomas Vanz

Max Cooper - LET THERE BE by Thomas Vanz

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Stream/download 'Yearning for the Infinite': https://ift.tt/2NYiIIQ Thomas Vanz: "For "Let there Be", Max asked me to think about the two key words "infinite" and "birth of humanity". Everything came naturally to this process I was working on, involving two types of liquids blending in forever, progressively. I choose to represent the light of Kabbalah that Max once told me about, blending a very luminous and pearly white with a very dark black. Once I had a satisfying shot, I added with Max a variety of neolithic paintings and illustrations spreading out from the center where the lights were coming from. The final result represents an infinite light spraying all over darkness, as the birth of reason and mankind." Follow Thomas on Instagram: https://ift.tt/2B9Pnl4 Max Cooper: "I wanted to start the project with the earliest visual example of the infinite I could find reference to - the bright white light of Kabbalah. The magician of liquid systems, Thomas Vanz told me he had a new secret recipe which could deliver what I needed, so I set about scoring to this idea based around what I know of Thomas’ work. The whole project functioned in this way, starting with my written descriptions of each chapter, then finding a visual artist to carry out that side of things, while in parallel I scored the music to the imagined final result. At some point down the line the first visual and musical sketches arrived and things could be refined at each end to marry the music and visual together seamlessly. The music for this chapter needed something with a feeling of grandeur and space, mysteriousness and mysticism. It all came down to some really sparse drawn out chords and plenty of different layers of saturation with pedals (plenty of Metasonix F1, Moogerfooger overdrive, Industrialelctric RM1N, Fairfield Circuitry Meet Maude, WMD Geiger Counter), with smatterings of more distorted hits running through a heavy (Big Sky) plate reverb to punctuate the scale even more. Visually, we complemented Thomas’ growing light animation with ancient cave painting imagery in order to tie the visual abstraction to the human story, and the birth of our yearning for the infinite. For the live show I use two layers of screens to first show the structure hovering in front of stage, then to slowly reveal the rear backlit screen and my position between them, as a means of slowly adding a 3-dimensional depth effect as the music and visual peaks." Follow Max Cooper: https://ift.tt/1TJ2kXv https://ift.tt/2XKbwmN https://maxcooper.net/

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ICELAND by Hyte Photography

ICELAND by Hyte Photography

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Twelve days in Iceland EQUIPMENT: Sony A7iii Sony A7riii 24mm 1.4 Sony GM 55mm 1.8 Sony Zeiss 24-70mm 2.8 Sony GM 70-20mm 2.8 Sony GM DJI Mavic 2 Pro PolarPro ND Filter

Uploaded 2019-11-10T22:30:30.000Z

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ICELAND by Hyte Photography

ICELAND by Hyte Photography

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Twelve days in Iceland EQUIPMENT: Sony A7iii Sony A7riii 24mm 1.4 Sony GM 55mm 1.8 Sony Zeiss 24-70mm 2.8 Sony GM 70-20mm 2.8 Sony GM DJI Mavic 2 Pro PolarPro ND Filter

Uploaded 2019-11-10T22:30:30.000Z

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