Spitting Out Teeth

MY UNAUTHORIZED BURLINGTON MUSIC VIDEOS

For those of you who don't know me well, I graduated from college in 2001 with a degree in Film & Video. My specialization was in the highly lucrative career of avant-garde and experimental film. Obviously, I was unable to parlay my love of pixels and jump cuts into a career (though I did work as a Motion Graphics designer for nearly three years), but I still make films as a hobby.

I've long been a fan of experimental music videos and documentaries, and my images are often inspired by music. I've even made a few experimental works using music from some local Burlington bands that I thought I'd share.

NECROPHAGIA (The Cancer Conspiracy, "Conversation With A Wall")



This was actually a trailer for what was meant to be a longer experimental documentary on The Cancer Conspiracy, mixing some of the imagery shown here with live concert footage, interviews, etc. Alas, it was never meant to be, as TCC went their separate ways shortly after I completed this trailer.


GOSSIP OF FLAMES (The Interior, "Gossip of Flames")



This is probably the closest thing to a "music video" I've done, seeing as it incorporates the entire track. The footage that it contains is b-roll from my days as a wedding/events videographer, quite possibly the worst job in the world. If anyone out there is interested in the ghost-like effect used, I'll be glad to explain what I did. Let's just say it involves After Effects and many layers of video.

I have the worst luck with these things, because shortly after I made the video, The Interior broke up.


APPLE CORE (Nest Material, "Ghosts of Dead Kids")



For a short time, I was participating in an online film club called the "54-hrs. Film Project". You would get a cryptic sentence via e-mail on Friday night & have to create a short film inspired by that sentence, encode it & post it to the web within 54 hours. "Apple Core" was one of these submissions. I had just recently been turned on to Nest Material, and I really wanted to incorporate their music into one of my pieces, so....here it is.