Video presentation about a series of sustainable green infrastructure projects at Burbank Water and Power – including photovoltaic parking lot canopies, a green street demonstrating innovative storm water treatment technologies, and an courtyard built around a salvaged electrical substation. (AHBE, U.S.A., 2012, 6:39)
Architectural narrative about the recently-completed Silverwood Lake State Recreation Area Visitors’ Center in California’s San Bernardino Mountains, designed by Los Angeles-based architectural firm Touraine Richmond Architects. (Evan Mather, U.S.A., 2012, 3:20)
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I recently worked with Pro8mm in Burbank to get all of my old Super-8 films scanned in High Definition. The films were first washed and cleaned, and then scanned using a 2K Spirit Datacine. The resulting files were saved in Apple ProRes 422 format and delivered on a hard drive. I have since remastered 39-A using the new HD scans – Scenic Highway is not far behind. Here are some examples of the before and after:
“39-A”, Sample #1: Original SD Scan (March 2005)
“39-A”, Sample #1: New HD Scan (August 2011)
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I recently came to the painful realization that Criterion would not be calling me up any time soon to inquire about my top 10 films in their collection. Coupled with a recent challenge from The Criterion Cast podcast for listeners to create their own Three Reasons videos, I took it upon myself to create a series of ten short videos highlighting those films in the collection that have influenced me. Here they are in alphabetical order:
“Telly”
Telly is a 10-minute bedtime horror story written, directed and animated by Evan Mather. Set in 1960s London, the film tells the tale of a young girl whose love of reading – and relationship with her grieving father – is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious hand-crafted television set. The digital film itself exists in a child’s analog visual universe: cut-out paper textured elements, dangling puppet characters, pop-up books, grainy film, and a scratchy vinyl soundtrack. Its themes of nostalgia, memory and childhood loss are consistent with Mather’s œuvre. Over six years in the making, Telly was conceived, assembled, and completed in Los Angeles, while Juuso Auvinen in Helsinki composed the original musical score. The artwork was generated in Adobe Illustrator, composited in Adobe After Effects, and edited on Final Cut Pro – the hardware for assembly and rendering was a Quad-Core Xeon Mac Pro with 10GB of RAM. (Evan Mather, U.S.A., 2011, 10:26)
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