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RABBIT BROTHER In Production An animated folk fantasy tragicomedy about life, death, gods, toads, rabbits, foxes, bluehorn wisps, yellowbells, oat flowers, technology, enlightenment, dancing, gods, wheat sticks, and the everyday. |
| THE DAM KEEPER (SCORE) In Production This is an animation test from writer-director duo Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo, Art Directors at Pixar who have worked on animation films such as Toy Story 3, Ratatouille, and the upcoming film, Monsters University. Visit their facebook page for production progress and concept artwork. |
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CONFETTI by PHOX (2013) [Confetti is a video-EP from PHOX, a project where video and audio were recorded simultaneously to create an EP and a film.] Welcome to the domestic, fantastical reality that is born out of winter hibernation - textured with the digital peasant chic of midi wonderlands and the hum-drum dusty gold mine that is Midwestern thrift. Forgo your pennies, all your common cents for the tasteless-scrap-turned-folk-art-ballroom-fabulous; blanketing your ballerina dance, broken-hearted banjo strum, ice-screams, tinsel-hoots, late-night clarinet lines and improv-whatevers in theatrical style as they shoot beyond the edge of the cosmos but no further than the living room ceiling. We began this project as enlightened players but by the end we were computer eyes and winter weight, using beer-stained tripods as walking sticks to cross confetti oceans and brush our teeth in dead movie sets. We ripped apart our fully-grown young until we remembered once again that we must let them be themselves and run into the arms of strangers (aka need this done by Friday thx). Now we can infinitely ponder our experiment in our cold bones and spring-hopeful skin; remembering the dead trees, the sound of cups on wood, and arguably the best sleepover ever; resulting not in the creation of cinema with a capital C, but something equally precious - the reaching for it. Film: Director, Editor, Stop Motion Animation, Sound Design |
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OAT FLOWERS Soft cover, 54 pages. Written by Zach Johnston. Yellow Cover illustration by Yoshinori Asai. Sheltie illustration cover by Jach Zohnston. Full size image |
DAYS GO BY I KNOW BUT YOU CAN STILL BE MY FRIEND Editor |
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LIGHTS.ON | APOTHEOSIS Dan Govier writes: Apotheosis is my attempt at making experimental music that doesn't waste your time. Most of the songs are pretty short and while some of the songs are catchy and - dare I say - poppy, this is not pop music. I took a break from making music seriously for the last several years. Usually, the way it works is that I get a concept for an album and then I start mapping and fleshing it out. With Apotheosis, it took Zach, my friend who also happens to write and produce music, pointing out to me that some of the songs that I had continued to slowly pump out fit sensibly into a single theme. Most of the work on the album had been done for over a year. Apotheosis is an instrumental album, but I think you’ll find that even without words the different sounds and feels take you to ponder on certain things. To me, this album is about life, the universe and humankind, and hopefully it comes through. The changes that the world has gone through over the years is what was on my mind while writing these works. The Earth existing for billions of years without human life and the differences in how we live compared with those throughout....read more Producer, Cover Art, Video Editor |
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Played banjo ukulele with PHOX on their daytrotter session. Daytrader. |
THE STORM IN MY HEART Director, Camera, Editing |
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We Are the Pillows Wood Room Session! - did some camera work on this. Our family up north (and beyond)! (2012) |
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I shot and edited promo videos for PHOX's debut album, Friendship with Matthew Holmen (2012) |
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SONNTAG | IN PATHS TOO DARK FOR SEEING Released July 11th, 2012 Under the moniker of Sonntag (his Mother's maiden name and his middle name), Zach Johnston directs a woodland symphony of native flutes, delta brass, Andean charango, and deep-voiced ukeleles into a magical celebration of night, nature, and adventure. Allow your mind to wander the endless prairie, the haunted forest, the majestic canyon, and the rushing rivers and you might find that a love of the landscape and a reverence for the past will comfort your heart as you venture out in paths too dark for seeing. Get the album at Bandcamp |
ROUND ROBIN Editing, Motion Graphics, Music |
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SKETCHTRAVEL Co-writer (with Dice Tsutsumi), Music (with Dan Govier |
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A VOICEMAIL FROM OMA Animation & Illustration, Music (With Dan Govier) |
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DICE TSUTSUMI INTERVIEWS FRéDéRIC BACK Music |
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GANGE OF PEACE (PBS) Director (With Vanessa Johnston), Camera, Editor |
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PETER THE CLERIC (TRAILER) Writer, Director, Editor |
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I have so much time and such simple tasks. I'm forced to lay it all out when deathbed asks, "What did you do with your life? What did you do with the day? You know as well as anyone they are one in the same." |