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The day before departing Korea, a friend drove us up to the top of the Gimpo region, near the North Korean border. Along most parts of the border, the heavily fortified green space of the DMZ, or demilitarized zone, separates the North and South. In this part, soon after the merging of the Imjin and Han Rivers, and not far from the Yellow Sea, the river essentially takes over the function of the DMZ. The river is made inaccessible by a barbed fence and frequent guard towers. In the hills beyond, military transport roads can be seen. airplane coming soon If you were to find yourself on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you’re more likely to find a beach strewn with garbage than a pristeen paradise. Here, the movie Cast Away is re-edited to reflect the reality of the great garbage patch of the Pacific Ocean. This narrative documentary follows my Grandpa and I on a journey across America. Against the backdrop of 19th and 21st century meta-history and North American geography, it places the life and travels of my Grandpa, a man of his times, in a bigger context. The trip takes us on a journey from my Grandpa’s ranching community in south Saskatchewan, Canada, across the border to Montana, and then on Amtrak trains through Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and finally back to Canada. The film is 30 minutes long. It was filmed with a Canon HV-20 camera. Various archival footage was taken from archive.org and youtube. The film was edited using Final Cut Studio. coming soon In October 2008, my Grandpa and I traveled from Glentworth, Saskatchewan to New York City. This film documents the places and some of the many stories my Grandpa told throughout the journey. I did these videos for Vidtionary, the video dictionary site that I am working on. I post them here as some of my first examples of exploring the 3D space of the Motion software, which only lets you 2D shapes in the 3D space. I created the walls and floors of these spaces by searching for textures online, and then inserted in royalty-free objects and animations. See also the incomplete video I’ve been working on for Visions Creeping by local Kamloops band Sleeps With Matches. This is a music video for the song “Visions Creeping” by the Kamloops band Sleeps With Matches (myspace.com/sleepswithmatches) … note that the video is unfinished, as it kind of peters out about a third of the way in. It’s the first thing I’ve ever tried to make using 3D software (well, 2D objects in a 3D space – using the software called Motion), and my idea certainly exceeded my abilities – but that’s part of the fun of the video, I think. A few of the animated elements, such as the rat, the lizard, the helicopter, and the radio, were downloaded from animationfactory.com, where I had a membership at the time. The plan for the rest of the video was to leave the house, then venture down a wasteland highway, passing by all sorts of weird characters and distant factories, then enter into a nuclear factory where there’s a spill, and finally to pass through a smokestack into the sky, and drift through stars, looking back at earth. |
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