Below are a few examples of my sound design work for others.
The Magnitude of the Continental Divides is a six minute high definition animation created by Chris Coleman over two and a half years that combines vector drawings derived from safety brochures with illustrations from scout manuals, science books, and boy’s adventure stories, all from the 1930-1960’s. Sound design was provided by David Fodel.
Since the video’s premiere in early 2009 it has been shown in 10 countries at 37 different venues, seen online nearly 9000 times and received 5 awards. Most notable was the Metropolis Art Prize “Grand Prize” in 2009 when it was featured on several screens in New York City Times Square and awarded $20,000. The jury included actress/video artist Isabella Rossellini who spoke about the work on MSNBC and praised “The quality, passion, and political viewpoints…” The Jury also included Cedar Lewisohn, the Curator of the Tate Modern gallery’s ground breaking Street Art exhibition, art critic and curator Howard Halle, and curator of SCOPE Art Fair, Lee Wells. Wells statement about the work: “Coleman’s winning piece is digital graffiti that plays into the graphic style of socio-political concepts of 21st Century style street graffiti, almost animated aerosol if you will. All of his work is impressive and this work suits the digital screen medium better than any other of the entries.”
Over There Is Over Here is a video by Morehshin Allahyari that explores the dialectics of time, space, real and unreal to define and explore the position of those who have left Iran versus the political prisoners.
“The project uses 3D animation and data glitch as a way to illustrate presence-less presence and to show the passage and collapse of the time. In my recent trip to Iran, I found a picture of political prisoners, which is at least 100 years old. Looking at the prisoners chained to each other, I saw a tragic relationship between the past and the present of Iran; a shared pain from the same soul, generation after generation. In my animation, the concept of time is used as a non-linear and collapsed concept in which the past and present have come together in order to create an “unreal” reality. Through a self-reflexive narrator, Over There Is Over Here alternates between the literary definition of a third person narrator to my actual, physical “third person” role outside Iran as narrator of the story. The narrator explores my relationship with imprisoned friends and classmates. In this relationship, I am the outsider who will always fail to understand the reality of a prisoner’s life. The more I live outside Iran, the more I will forget details of the “reality” of life inside Iran. For these reasons, the animation is a deliberate mix of real and unreal, fake and genuine.”
Screenings
- The 6th Streaming Festival, Netherlands.
- Thomas Erben gallery, invitational, NYC, NY (Dec 13th-17th)
- 24th Annual Dallas VideoFest, invitational, Angelika Film Center, Dallas, TX.
- Sun Flower Art Center, CologneOFF 2011, Beirut, Lebanon.
- Busan International Film Festival, invitational, Busan, South Korea.
- FROZEN FILM FEST: Best Animated Shorts 2011, Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA.
- Unlike Gallery, Juried Show, Berlin, Germany.
- Currents 2011, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio.
- Arad art museum, CologneOFF 2011, Romania.
- The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany.
- CologneOFF 2011, Juried and curated by Alysse Stepanian.
- Union gallery, Juried, University of North Texas.
Chops is a film by Colorado artist and filmmaker John Dawson in 2024. It is a film of moving abstract images created by painting directly onto 16mm film stock. Dawson describes it as “paint with a pulse, abstraction that moves and comes alive. I am taking an old school technique and trying to do something modern and current with it.”
“My films are all about the colors, motion and having fun! I hope people are entertained and energized by all of my films. You can think of it like a ride at the amusement park or view it the same way you might view fireworks or abstract painting.”
Screenings
- Festival Fotogenia, Mexico City, Mexico, Worldwide Premiere
- Post-Cinema Film Festival, Sicily, Italy, Italy Premiere, Official Selection