the pains of being pure at heart - november 4, 2010

(photographed for discorder)

BETWEEN STARS & THE VANCOUVER FILM RACE

August was productive. Here's two reasons why:

BETWEEN STARS

Between Stars, starring Kate Crutchlow and Edison Skinner, is done production! There's many updates on the production front - many stories, many photos. Expect to see much more both here and on the tumblr in the upcoming weeks and months.

XOXO

This year, I participated in The 24 Hour Vancouver Film Race. Together with my team Station7 - Lynn Wee, Jerry Tai, Karlo Melgarejo, and Bernie Yao - we conceived, shot, and edited a short film in 24 hours, from 10pm on Friday August 27th to 10pm on Saturday August 28th. We wrapped production at 5 in the morning and hurled ourselves through editing. It was epic.

The result? A short film called XOXO - starring Bernie Yao and Edison Skinner. It will be screening together with the other film race participants at The Ridge Theatre on September 1st at 9:15pm. Check out the Film Racing site for more screening details.

joseph keiley - lenore (1907)

published in camera work no 17, 1907

follow the turtle

(c-prints - 2009)

NEON RUSH: the opening credits for gaspar noé's enter the void

For a change from the stream of softer images and sequences I've been focusing on - this is TRIPPY, PULPY, and IMPACTING. It's also one of the best text-based title sequences I've seen in ages. See it full screen and experience the full neon rush.

website redesign! and a new project!

In celebration of my graduation from Emily Carr University, the new version of my website is up!

Also new: the pre-production blog for my upcoming short film, Between Stars. This film is currently in the early stages of pre-production, and I'm aiming for a July shoot date and a November completion date. Between Stars will be my first short film outside of studenthood. I'm excited about it. The blog will follow its ongoing development and realization.

MAKE ME STRONGER: archives

I'm remodeling my website and getting rid of the blog on the main page. So, in the interest of capturing the process of my grad film, what follows are the posts related to the film from the old blog. (oh the memories!)

October 30, 2009

I took this in 2006 on a trail about five minutes out of Prince Rupert.

My grad film at Emily Carr is inspired heavily by this environment - the sense of entering into the uncanny that permeates rural BC. The film, a retelling of a girl’s repressed memories of a traumatic event, takes place in a rural BC forest similar to this one - a beautiful yet dangerous environment.

While finding locations in Vancouver that capture this feeling has proven to be difficult, I’ve found my forest, and I’m now prepping for the shoot next weekend. This means: rehearsals! Shot lists! Etcetera! Tomorrow, I’m off to the location with my super 8 camera to run some tests and plan some shots.

December 12, 2009

I’m out of production and into editing of my grad film, Make Me Stronger. The first cut is nearly finished - and this means the first batch of stills from are on flickr. More to come in the upcoming days and weeks. The semester is almost over, but there’s still much to be done before the completion date in April.

(Also see the black and white stills taken by my friend Jerry Tai.)