This is an experimental time-lapse video that compresses the 80 minute drive from Port Allen, Louisiana to Gretna, Louisiana into 4-1/2 minutes. It was shot and edited in August 2012 using an iPhone 4S running TimeLapse and a MacBook Air running Final Cut Pro X. The music track is a remix by Victorius of Juuso Auvinen’s theme from “A Plea For Modernism”. (Evan Mather, U.S.A., 2012, 4:30)
DIR Evan Mather
This is an experimental time-lapse video that compresses the 3-1/2 hour drive from Los Angeles, California to Las Vegas, Nevada into 12 minutes. It was shot and edited on July 28, 2012 using an iPhone 4S running TimeLapse and a MacBook Air running Final Cut Pro X. The audio track consists of a sampling of scanning the AM/FM bands during the journey. A few gaps exist in the end product due to the iPhone overheating and subsequently running out of storage space, restarting the TimeLapse app every so often, and a bolt from a passing truck hitting the windshield (amazingly, no damage). We recommend the Wicked Spoon buffet at the Cosmopolitan for the Korean short ribs, yellow curry mussels over fried rice, beet salad, mashed potatoes, fried chicken, salted caramel ice cream, and vending machine dispensed wine. (Evan Mather, U.S.A., 2012, 12:00)
DIR Evan Mather SCREENINGS onSCREEN (Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles).
A time-lapse journey along the historic Arroyo Seco Parkway, the first freeway in California, from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles, is most appropriately scored to a vintage arcade classic. (Evan Mather, U.S.A., 2012, 0:47)
39-A: Een Reisverhaal Van Eindeloos (A Travel Tale Of Interminable) is an experimental film that challenges and subverts the typical elements of documentaries, thus making us all reflect upon important questions in documentary filmmaking such as What material can be trusted, can the voice-over narrator be trusted, where does documentary end and fiction start? Besides these questions, that the film raises, it has managed to convince the jury by it’s unusual and alienating collage of super 8 footage, by its investigative style and suspense. The film is putting audiences continuously on the wrong track yet consistently intriguing, leaving the viewer bewildred and pensive. Through its hybrid form, 39-A: A Travel Tale Of Interminable is showing inventive ways of dealing with documentary footage and transforming reality into film. – Webcuts.11
Weirdest of all is 39-A: Een Reisverhaal Van Eindeloos (A Travel Tale Of Interminable), which seems specifically designed to make the viewer feel as if he or she is experiencing some abnormal brain activity. In the short, Old Super 8 footage of a trip to the Kennedy Space Center is overlaid with an animated roadmap and a narration track that sounds as if it’s been run through Babel Fish half a dozen times. It’s proof—if more were needed—that finding the festival’s hidden treasures sometimes requires a little digging. – The Onion A.V. Club
… a high brow spoof on art theory, deconstruction, documentaries, and reality itself. – D Magazine
Evan Mather’s short film is one mindfuck of a travelogue. – Film Threat
In this insightful autobiographical mashup of Super-8 home movies, vibrant animated cartography, and Dutch pidgin-speak, a family’s 1981 vacation to the Kennedy Space Center is chronicled in exquisite detail. (Evan Mather, U.S.A., 2010, 7:24)
VIDEO: Olympic & Western: A Primer on the Typographic Order and an Argument for its Proper Usage in the Built Environment
“Olympic & Western” is a manifesto on the proper usage of type in the built environment – and the first video to be narrated by Siri. Tightly adapted from a mysterious analog audio tape found on the side of the road, it was shot with an iPhone 4S and edited with Final Cut Pro X. This video mash-up meshes infrastructural convergences and reveals intuitive paradigms by using the city of Los Angeles as a testbed for seizing urbanistic ecologies, curating front-end ecosystems, cultivating emergent methodologies, and revealing the link between street signage graphic design and the JFK assassination. (Evan Mather, U.S.A., 2012, 7:30)
DIR Evan Mather NARRATOR Siri MUSIC Protman