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This is a spectacular indie film I designed written and starring my dear friend, Jeff Auer and directed by Jared Barel. It intwines 4 college mates and their spouses to get their groove back by getting the band back together. Check out the trailer, the website and our IMDB page for most recent info and release dates. Stay tuned!
Bruce Flansburgh (Jeff Auer) is a bored, 40-something New York paralegal who hasn’t let go of his dream of rock stardom. While slogging through an increasingly unbearable day to day existence, it dawns on him that the reunions of The Pixies, Soundgarden and other alternative/indie rock bands from the 90’s could inspire his former group, THE INCOHERENTS, to reform. The group, each mired in some sort of midlife malaise, reunite their 90's indie rock band for one last shot at stardom.
Bruce Flansburgh (Jeff Auer) is a bored, 40-something New York paralegal who hasn’t let go of his dream of rock stardom. While slogging through an increasingly unbearable day to day existence, it dawns on him that the reunions of The Pixies, Soundgarden and other alternative/indie rock bands from the 90’s could inspire his former group, THE INCOHERENTS, to reform. The group, each mired in some sort of midlife malaise, reunite their 90's indie rock band for one last shot at stardom.
This is a 2004 indie film one of our Partners, Charles Kirby, production designed. The film correctly predicts the impending 2007-10 hype cycle "what we eat eats" and successful films SUPER SIZE ME and
Culture's understanding of our food chain is illustrated in a fictional story about a town full of rotten lamb on the dinner table. The movie was unsuccessfully marketed as a horror film and is only less melodramatic in this decade because it was proved true. At the time, it premiered at The Hampton's Film festival and the audience laughed at all the wrong moments. They didn't see what writer/director saw. He was right.
For more info https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330175/
This is a documentary about coaching track. It details the leadership of George Calano, a teacher at the top school who has won championships at every level. It was made with my student, Brian Gonzalez. This type of "longer" DOC Project came after he completed both of my semester long courses and was interested in an Independent Study in cinematic storytelling. We used Mark Cousins' series, THE STORY OF FILM, to guide the semester and produced this film as an end result. It stands today in pantheon of the school's community as an example of how my film work can capture the students in relation to a pillar of the faculty and give the culture an icon on film.
This is a DOC I produced with my student, Brian Gonzalez.
This is a PBS piece starring Claudia Shear, directed by Christopher Ashley and designed by Loy Arcenas. I was in the Art Department.
This short was written and produced by one of my French speaking student filmmakers who explained to me that Eleve not only referred to the chance meeting in the elevator that made our main character think twice about jumping but also was a clever pun because eleve in the French is a reference to my relationship with him, my pupil.
This is an example of my Capstone projects for my students who have taken a full course load of Film Production. I begin by dedicating class time to teaching a three act structure, condensed storytelling and script formatting in CELTX. Each of my students writes an original short to demonstrate their understanding of these skills. Then they vote which one script to go in to Pre-Production with. To stress collaboration, they each pick a role to play including everything you would expect EXCEPT for "director" (for power-tripping reasons). They choose jobs from DP to Location Manager, etc...then they work together to cast NYC actors and shoot it. Then I teach Adobe Premiere and they all get their hands in the editor's driver seat.
LIGHTBOX is a product I create and sell. This is a short film about the method for model lighting and how it can effect the life of a design team. Especially popular as an explanation tool for university lighting designers and professors, I shot and edited this piece and it sells the product very well.
This is an example of my Autuer Homage Project. After studying Citizen Kane, North by Northwest, The Shining, Apocalypse Now, Jaws and Raging Bull my students created these pieces. The project included a specific cinematic storytelling technique of each of the Autuer's films and then an example of their own versions of these shots.
This is a demonstration by one of my cinema studies students illustrating his strong feelings about Ken Burns and the documentaries we studied in the first third of our year long film production course. His use of faming, character and humor to explore so many aspects of our course work together is brilliant and the best part may be that he gets the joke. The student was clear that the what our textbook, DOCUMENTARY by Bill Nicols, categorized as a Reflexive Story; the students just call Mockumentaries.
This is a variation on my SPARKS FLY Project. The assignment is, Two "people" meet and sparks fly. The intension is to give the students their first chance to structure a short narrative. This is a brilliant film student who abstracted the assignment elegantly in to this short about two tomatoes becoming pico de gallo...
