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ROBBY AMEEN: LIVE! AT THE POSTER MUSEUM

Year: 2024
Project: Concert film and trailer

Role: Editor, Producer

Artist: Robby Ameen 

Music: Live At The Poster Museum by Robby Ameen, cd available on Origin Records (recorded in NYC, Feb 2024)

Running Time: 1:53 min

RUMI by Joel Goodman

Year: 2023
Project: Music video and recording session short feature film

Role: Director, Producer, Editor

Artist: Joel Goodman 

Music: An Exquisite Moment by Joel Goodman, available on Bandcamp, cd, vinyl (2023)

Running Time: 6:38 min

8 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A POEM (an ode to prose poems)

Year: 2023

Voice: Ever D., Syd Straw
Source: "Reconstruction" by Max Jacob; various images

Music: Federico Mompou, Ariel Kalma, Paul Horn, Pascal Schumacher, Michel Legrand, Frantz Casseus, Vanessa Gould, Max Roach

Running Time: 6:56 min

UNDIÚ, JOÃO GILBERTO (an edit experiment)

Year: 2023

Picture: "Pas de deux" (1968), Norman McLaren and “Opus 4” (1925), Walter Ruttman

Music: Undiú, João Gilberto (1973)

Running Time: 6:47 min

MOTHERS AND CHILDS by Jascha Hoffman

Year: 2022

Artist: Jascha Hoffman

Picture: NASA's Cassini spacecraft 4K footage of Saturn

Running Time: 3:46 min

ENTR'ACTE (an edit experiment)

Picture: "Entr'acte" (1924), René Clair 

Music: Satie Blues, Toby Twining (2017) performed by Margaret Leng Tan

Running Time: 4:41 min

NEW YORK SCENES (NON-NARRATIVE SHORTS)

Project Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Camera: Canon 5D Mark III

Location: New York City

ANDREW O. HUGHES

(above)

Music: "When the Horizon Bursts"

               by Ben Siems

Running Time: 2:40 min

 

A few summers ago, for a project titled Abstraction, I shot this series of short videos as part of a project for PBS's POV Hackathon, working with composer Gil Talmi and filmmaker Smriti Keshari. Our goal was to explore how neutral moving images could change when paired with different music cues. While the project was largely an experiment, it was awarded the POV Hackathon Grand Prize. 

 

Below are some of the shorts I created for the project, shot over the course of one week on foot throughout the city. The music used here was not part of the POV project – instead, added by me afterwards.

LATE DAY SUN

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Washington Square Park, NYC

Music: "Layers" by Kevs One

Running Time: 2:10 min

JOE MANGRUM, SAND ARTIST

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Union Square Park, NYC

Music: "Garden in the Sand" by Moruza

Running Time: 1:32 min

DANCER 4

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Washington Square Park, NYC

Music: "The Eternal Return" by Sonogram

Running Time: 3:07 min

COLOR AT NIGHT

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Brooklyn & Manhattan

Music: "Secret Heat" by Jami Sieber

Running Time: 1:38 min

SPRING STORM 2

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn

Music: "Skin Color" by Russell L. Howard III

Running Time: 1:21 min

RUSH HOUR 1

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Grand Central Station, NYC

Music: "Pedestrian04 - Excerpt 5" by Autohypnosis

Running Time: 1:20 min

RUSH HOUR 2

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Various, Midtown NYC

Music: "Voicemail" by Red Animal War

Running Time: 0:54 min

AFTER HOURS

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Brooklyn

Music: "Rain" by PHYLR / Jim Coleman

Running Time: 2:00 min

SHOWTIME

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: City Hall Park, NYC

Music: "The Show" by NITEPPL

Running Time: 1:15 min

PARALLEL UNIVERSE

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Times Square, NYC

Music: "Magic Behind the Wall" by Hench

Running Time: 1:55 min

STREET BOXERS

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Union Square Park, NYC

Music: "Fractal 4" by Susie Ibarra

Running Time: 2:22 min

SKY ABOVE SOUND BELOW

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: NYC

Music: "Repeat" by J.K. Wiechert

Running Time: 1:37 min

BIRDS 4

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn

Music: "Tokyo Night" by The Kindness Kind

Running Time: 1:12

NEON

Role: Cinematographer / Editor

Location: Various, NYC

Music: "Enter Darklight" by Tobias James

Running Time: 1:33 min

MORE MUSIC VIDEOS
BEN SIDRAN

In November 2014, jazz legend Ben Sidran wished to release a track from his upcoming album BLUE CAMUS, titled "Wake Me When It's Over", in reaction to the lead-up and outcome of the mid-term 2014 elections.  He flees to Paris as his frustrations are put into words and music.

 

BLUE CAMUS was released in the US in Spring 2015.

WAKE ME WHEN IT'S OVER (2014)

Role: Video Editor

Artist: Ben Sidran

Produced by: Leo Sidran

Cinematographer: Mathieu Wilson

Running Time: 3:52

Website: www.bensidran.com

LEO SIDRAN

In 2019, multi-instrumentalist and singer Leo Sidran released the single "Barcelona", about the city where he had spent time as a child. Edited from entirely archival home movies and other material.

BACK IN BARCELONA (2019)

Role: Video Editor

Written & Produced by: Leo Sidran
Recorded at Electric Poodle Stoodles, Brooklyn

Running Time: 3:15

Website: www.leosidran.com

LEO SIDRAN

A song Leo wrote for his wife in 2023. This video was made entirely with footage found in an old Japanese archive of animal behavior filmed by scientists.

KEEP IT WILD (2023)

Role: Video Editor

Written & Produced by: Leo Sidran

Album: What's Trending (2023)

Running Time: 3:28

Website: www.leosidran.com

MOVIE TRAILERS
REVENGE OF THE MEKONS

Role: Trailer Editor

Director: Joe Angio
Format: Feature Documentary

Website: www.mekonsmovie.com

The Mekons have been one of my favorite bands for as long as I can remember.  When I heard about Joe Angio's feature documentary, I was eager to pitch in, if he needed. It turned out that in the final hour before the film's NYC premiere he needed a trailer, and so we put this one together in about 48 hours. It was some of the most fun editing ever.

 

Lester Bangs calls The Mekons the "most revolutionary band in the history of rock 'n 'roll."  Greil Marcus writes "The Mekons were best known as the band that took punk ideology most seriously."  Joe writes: "Political provocateurs. Social agitators. Punk’s reigning contrarians. The Mekons have been called all this and more."  Joe and the film had a great festival and theatrical run.

ZEMENE – TRAILER

Role: Trailer Editor

Director/Producer: Melissa Donovan
Format: Feature Documentary

Website: www.zemenefilm.com

Directed, produced and shot by Melissa Donovan, Zemene is the story of a girl born in Ethiopia with severe spinal curvature, as it charts her unlikely and miraculous path towards recovery.  In a region with few resources, Zemene is transformed in part through the good will and humanity of doctors in the area doing all they can to treat common childhood illness.  In Zemene's case, that doctor is Dr Rick Hodes and, together, they form an extraordinary bond through faith and understanding.

Zemene and director Melissa Donovan received numerous jury awards on the film festival circuit.

ADDITIONAL TRAILERS

Editing teasers and trailers is one of my favorite things to do. In the case of OBIT, the process of assembling a short exploratory teaser was crucial in helping to find the project's approach towards archival material and visual possibilities.

 

Similarly, in editing the "sizzle reel" for the tv documentary series "Years of Living Dangerously", it was via our work on that short piece that informed decisions and an evolving understanding of how to visually and narratively communicate the complex issues surrounding climate change.

THE TALENTED MRS. MANDELBAUM (2024)

Format: Book Trailer
Role: Trailer Editor

Author: Margalit Fox

Website: Amazon

I ONLY READ IT FOR THE CARTOONS

Format: Book Trailer

Role: Camera Operator / Trailer Editor

Author: Richard Gehr

Website: www.richardgehr.com

YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (2012)
(not for public release)

Role: Sizzle Reel Editor

Creators: David Gelber & Joel Bach

Website: www.yearsoflivingdangerously.com

OBIT (brainstorming teaser)

Role: Director / Producer / Teaser Editor

Music: Thomas Newman (non-commercial use only)

Website: www.obitdoc.com

ADDITIONAL MUSIC VIDEOS

Science journalist, songwriter and singer Jascha Hoffman and I collaborated on videos to accompany nine tracks from his album, The Afterneath.  All lyrics were inspired by the subjects of New York Times obituaries. 

 

Our goal was to work exclusively with archival and found material on the internet to create loose and metaphoric interpretations of the past eras during which the people he sings about lived.  The Atom Bomb was inspired by the life of scientist-turned-Maoist Joan Hinton.  The Little Airplane was inspired by the life of Maynard Hill, the first creator of a model airplane to cross the Atlantic.

 

"The Atom Bomb" screened as part of the 7th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival and the Philip K. Dick Film Festival.. 

THE ATOM BOMB

Role: Video Director / Editor

Artist: Jascha Hoffman

Running Time: 4:52

Website: www.afterneath.org

Official Selection:

2014 Imagine Science Film Festival

2015 Philip K. Dick International Film Festival

 

THE LITTLE AIRPLANE

Role: Video Director / Editor

Artist: Jascha Hoffman

Running Time: 3:40

Website: www.afterneath.org

THE TENNIS TABLE

Role: Video Director / Editor

Artist: Jascha Hoffman

Running Time: 5:11

Website: www.afterneath.org

THE FREEZER

Role: Video Director / Editor

Artist: Jascha Hoffman

Running Time: 4:04

Website: www.afterneath.org

THE GUARDIAN

Role: Video Director / Editor

Artist: Jascha Hoffman

Running Time: 3:24

Website: www.afterneath.org

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