A climber ascending a difficult mountain is having a hard time. He will have to face his fears if wants to face the mountain.

Based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same title, this macabre tale follows Prince Prospero's attempt to avoid a plague known as the Red Death by ... (More)

Based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same title, this macabre tale follows Prince Prospero's attempt to avoid a plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his castle. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, have a masquerade ball one evening and in the midst of their revelry a mysterious figure enters and makes his way through the ball. Shrouded in all the condiments of the grave and striking unimaginable fear into all the guests the figure eventually brings about everyone's demise... the Red Death itself. (Less)

Set in a future New York City, several years from now, where earthquakes are regular occurrence in our changed environment. A collapsing building traps ... (More)

Set in a future New York City, several years from now, where earthquakes
are regular occurrence in our changed environment. A collapsing building traps
a couple underground and fear of approaching death accelerates their attraction.

Loving life at the darkest hour – environmentalists will like this one.

Screened at the Queens International Film Festival,
New York City, Nov. 2008. (Less)

A man is trapped in a room with no chance of escape. In the distance he hears a similar fate to his own. Why is he bound with phone wires? How will he ... (More)

A man is trapped in a room with no chance of escape. In the distance he hears a similar fate to his own. Why is he bound with phone wires? How will he escape? An official selection from the 2006 Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival. (Less)

A crow gets scared one evening.

"ZERO" is a short film in Stop-Motion Animation, it's about a poet called "Zero", he writes all the days looking for something he just doesn't know. He ... (More)

"ZERO" is a short film in Stop-Motion Animation, it's about a poet called "Zero", he writes all the days looking for something he just doesn't know. He falls into a big sleep through his fears, his nightmares... (Less)

Xcorps Action Sports Show #14.) "BASE-2" - Those fearing heights beware - this episode of the Xcorps freefalls right over the edge with guest host and ... (More)

Xcorps Action Sports Show #14.) "BASE-2" - Those fearing heights beware - this episode of the Xcorps freefalls right over the edge with guest host and world class B.A.S.E. jumper Ray Murphy falling into a 1200 foot glory hole in Mexico called Cave of the Swallows. For the ultimate in ground rushes Ray and 5 loco amigo hombres from the States - Matt McClone, Jeremy Brice, Morgan Moert, Travis Meimann, and Dan Langstraat strap on parasails that look like small backpacks and launch themselves into the massive underground void where very few have gone before. Surreal action scenes here along with great tunes by Off by One, Drowning Pool and cool new breakout band from New England - Jediah all mixing well with the ambient cave audio echo.
B.A.S.E. jumpers - Buildings - Antennas - Structures - Earth are an insane and growing niche of adventurers who first must do thousands of jumps from aircraft to learn the needed skills to jump closer to earth. Jumping BASE is jumping with no margin for error. Feel true terror with scenes shot with multi helmet cams worn by the six eXtremists. The viewer is pulled downward with adrenalized clarity into one of the largest limestone sinkholes on the planet - The Cave of the Swallows near the remote town of Golondrinas in Eastern Mexico. The hole is 1200 feet deep - a seven second 100 mph B.A.S.E. drop into an echo chamber filled with sound of screaming freefalls and the wail of thousands of swallows and parrots living in the vertical cave walls. Surreal for sure! Watch those boulders when landing! There are no nearby hospitals. See how they get out.
Mid way through the show Ray introduces a new music video from our friends at Rive music promotions with the band NickelBack cranking up the volume with an explosive solid rock performance of their song - Figured You Out.
After that Ray returns with more BASE action followed by Xcorps host Bob Woodard riding a new skateboard from our friends at PHAT boards. Bob rolls the hills of Point Loma San Diego with the Hammerhead super wide track pushed by tunes from Drowning Pool. Cool board to see. Hear what Bob thinks of the ride.
After that its back to Ray in Mexico going even bigger and some great shots from a cameraman hanging half way down on a rope. Is that what a falling body sounds like!
The show wraps with some sweet wakeboard shots - a preview of an upcoming Xcorps episode. Additional music by One Side Zero, Rolling Stones and Dr.Dre. Mucho loco! TRT-29:30 4/04 Close Captioned - J.S.Edmondson.
See the Action - Hear the Music - Join the Xcorps!
©2007 TheXcorps. (Less)

A surreal dream about the fear of infidelity. Watch. Enjoy. Comment. Repeat. The end.

The Making of "Briny Deep": "We shot the video over two days, along the rocky Eastern coastline of Puna on the Big Island of Hawaii. I wanted it to look... (More)

The Making of "Briny Deep":

"We shot the video over two days, along the rocky Eastern coastline of Puna on the Big Island of Hawaii. I wanted it to look more like the coastline of the Pacific Northwest or New England. I always had cliffs in mind ever since I first heard the song. We were fortunate enough to shoot on a couple of overcast days where the water was really stirred up. Most of the Eastern coast of the big island has scenery like this but one of our main concerns was to find a stretch where you wouldn't see any homes in the background.

The only crew involved were RaVani and myself. I threw my camera gear in a bag and brought a portable radio for playback. RaVani sang to a temp mix of the song in which the chorus had not been recorded yet. Luckily once the song was complete it synched up perfectly.

The band was in a transitional period and not all of the members were available for the shoot. Also, I thought it would be more appropriate to focus on RaVani due to the mystical and thematic elements of the song which center around a relationship between a mother and daughter.

The limited crew, however, worked out for the best because it's quite dangerous out around the cliffs. RaVani actually worried me a few times when she stepped out on the edge without warning me. A couple times I thought she was going right over. It made for some great shots but I wouldn't suggest it to anyone. We were probably lucky. The "lack" of personnel may have even helped RaVani a bit because I think it allowed her to feel more comfortable to lip synch without a bunch of people watching.

"Briny Deep" is my favorite Technical Difficulties song and I took my inspiration for the video from the feelings it stirs up inside me when I watch them perform it live. It's one of those songs that you hear and are immediately drawn into because of the composition and the intensity of the vocals. As you look deeper into the song and read the lyrics you grow to appreciate the story that it tells, which is quite tragic. The song would evoke images in my head that really stuck with me. The thread between the music and the lyrics is very strong. It was a challenge for me to attempt the video. I was nervous that it would fall short of the song's power and impact. I merely wanted to create imagery to accompany the song, not try to upstage it.

My take on the song... although RaVani could explain it much better then I could ever hope to... is this; The song revolves around a mother and daughter who are lost at sea at night. The mother has mystical powers which she transfers to her daughter so that she can survive the danger. The quieter portions of the song is when the mother is assuring her daughter that all will be okay and not to fear. The chorus expresses the mothers attempts to keep them both safe to on avail, and the grief of having to give up her powers. In the end the mother drowns in the briny, deep, dark, cold water.

In the video I tried to represent these emotions without showing them literally. The doll representing the daughter and the boat representing being lost at sea. RaVani is playing the part of the mother and her character is reflecting on the tragic events and trying to control the water, to push is back. She is remembering and pining for her daughter. In the end, when she disappears from the cliff, it is meant to represent that she is a spirit haunting the cliff on the sea where she drowned.

The song is so pure and I wanted the visuals to stay along those lines so I shot in black and white because I wanted to go for a stark, dreamlike quality. Like the memory of something sad or tragic. The colors in Hawaii can be quite vivid with a lot of green and blue. I wanted to get as far away from that kind of a look as possible, since we had just captured the island feel in another Technical Difficulties video "Jungle" and because "Briny Deep" has such a dark tone to it, it just felt right to make this way. I used an Arri 16mm BL and my trusty Minolta Autometer for exposures. The 16mm grainy film gave it the haunting look that I really wanted. For other sections of the video, I used a Canon GL 1 Mini DV camera and I cut the whole thing on Final Cut Pro.

This video was really difficult to edit and was a tremendous challenge for me. It went through a lot of stages before I felt comfortable with it. Telling a story in a music video isn't the same as telling a story in a short or feature film. With music videos, there are so many possibilities. In the end, it definitely took on a life of it's own. It turned out better than expected, although, there are some more things I would have liked to have been able to do. Like shooting on a boat in the middle of the ocean at night in a raging sea... but that's a whole different kind of budget. (Less)

A terrifying rabbit and a bloodthirsty young President race towards each other and the apocalypse. "The Rabbit's head and Its hairs were as white as ... (More)

A terrifying rabbit and a bloodthirsty young President race towards each other and the apocalypse.

"The Rabbit's head and Its hairs were as white as snow; and its eyes were as a flame of fire... And when I saw it, I fell at its feet as dead. And it laid its right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am that which liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and I have the keys of hell and of death." -Revelation 1:14-18. (Less)

http://www.a3film.com - Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs... (More)

http://www.a3film.com - Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme.

Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends...until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

Release Date: August 07, 2009
MPAA Rating: TBA
Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond
Directed By: Nora Ephron
Produced By: Nora Ephron, Laurence Mark, Amy Robinson, Eric Steel. (Less)

Chapter 3 of Karma Kula Mystic Warrior. .

Drama by Katherine Macnaughton and Christopher Taylor. A paranoid man wins the lottery. Selection of the 2007 YoungCuts Film Festival. www.YoungCuts.com.

Set in a future New York City, several years from now, where earthquakes are regular occurrence in our changed environment. A collapsing building traps ... (More)

Set in a future New York City, several years from now, where earthquakes
are regular occurrence in our changed environment. A collapsing building traps
a couple underground and fear of approaching death accelerates their attraction.

Loving life at the darkest hour – environmentalists will like this one.

Screened at the Queens International Film Festival,
New York City, Nov 2008.

Click here to see full film:
http://www.openfilm.com/vide
os/dancer/. (Less)

This is an experimental film we made about temptation, uncertainty, and the fear of love. Watch. Enjoy. Comment. Repeat. The end.

Student production CPH Film & Photoschool 2009. Saša is a Serbian boy who lives with his mother and baby brother in a refugee camp in Denmark. He wants... (More)

Student production CPH Film & Photoschool 2009.

Saša is a Serbian boy who lives with his mother and baby brother in a refugee camp in Denmark. He wants to play socker with the other boys in the camp, but his mother needs him to look after the baby. One day Saša decides to leave the tent and play with the boys and while playing he forgets all about the sleeping baby and the hotplate in the tent.
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Xcorps Action Sports Show #14.) "BASE-2" - seg. 2 - Those fearing heights beware - this episode of the Xcorps freefalls right over the edge with guest host... (More)

Xcorps Action Sports Show #14.) "BASE-2" - seg. 2 - Those fearing heights beware - this episode of the Xcorps freefalls right over the edge with guest host and world class B.A.S.E. jumper Ray Murphy falling into a 1200 foot glory hole in Mexico called Cave of the Swallows. For the ultimate in ground rushes Ray and 5 loco amigo hombres from the States - Matt McClone, Jeremy Brice, Morgan Moert, Travis Meimann, and Dan Langstraat strap on parasails that look like small backpacks and launch themselves into the massive underground void where very few have gone before. Surreal action scenes here along with great tunes by Off by One, Drowning Pool and cool new breakout band from New England - Jediah all mixing well with the ambient cave audio echo.
B.A.S.E. jumpers - Buildings - Antennas - Structures - Earth are an insane and growing niche of adventurers who first must do thousands of jumps from aircraft to learn the needed skills to jump closer to earth. Jumping BASE is jumping with no margin for error. Feel true terror with scenes shot with multi helmet cams worn by the six eXtremists. The viewer is pulled downward with adrenalized clarity into one of the largest limestone sinkholes on the planet - The Cave of the Swallows near the remote town of Golondrinas in Eastern Mexico. The hole is 1200 feet deep - a seven second 100 mph B.A.S.E. drop into an echo chamber filled with sound of screaming freefalls and the wail of thousands of swallows and parrots living in the vertical cave walls. Surreal for sure! Watch those boulders when landing! There are no nearby hospitals. See how they get out.
Mid way through the show Ray introduces a new music video from our friends at Rive music promotions with the band NickelBack cranking up the volume with an explosive solid rock performance of their song - Figured You Out.
After that Ray returns with more BASE action followed by Xcorps host Bob Woodard riding a new skateboard from our friends at PHAT boards. Bob rolls the hills of Point Loma San Diego with the Hammerhead super wide track pushed by tunes from Drowning Pool. Cool board to see. Hear what Bob thinks of the ride.
After that its back to Ray in Mexico going even bigger and some great shots from a cameraman hanging half way down on a rope. Is that what a falling body sounds like!
The show wraps with some sweet wakeboard shots - a preview of an upcoming Xcorps episode. Additional music by One Side Zero, Rolling Stones and Dr. Dre. Mucho loco! TRT - 29:30 4/04 Close Captioned - JSE.
See the Action - Hear the Music - Join the Xcorps!
©2009 TheXcorps. (Less)

A line of taxis waits in front of the office. They are "right-sizing" today. Jack Gilmore arrives at work to find a line of taxis waiting outside the ... (More)

A line of taxis waits in front of the office.
They are "right-sizing" today.

Jack Gilmore arrives at work to find a line of taxis waiting outside the building where he works. They are waiting to take people home after they are laid off. Jack spends his day trying to work, all the time fearing that the next phone call, or the next person to walk by, will tell him it is time for him to go. The office grows quieter as, one by one, his co-workers are led away. Eventually Jack walks the empty corridors alone.

A modern day horror film.

Line of Taxis was completed in November 1999 and premiered at the $100 Film Festival in Calgary on November 18 at the Garry Theatre.

Screenings:
$100 Film Festival - Calgary, Alberta - 1999 November 18.
Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival - Victoria B.C. - 2000 February 5th and 9th.
Bare Bones Film Festival- Muskogee, OK - 2000 March 25 - Foreign Short Runner-Up.
Misfit Short Film & Video Festival - Edmonton Alberta - May 6, 2000.
Pirromount Pictures - Honorable mention.
New York International Independent Film and Video Festival - April 7, 2001, New York.
International Festival of Cinema and Technology - Actor Keith D. Humphrey was nominated for The IFCT Best Actor Award for his role as Jack Gilmore in "Line of Taxis".

* London, England 2002 December 6.
* Toronto, Ontario, Canada in March 2003.
* Los Angeles, California 2003 May 31. (Less)

A short film directed by Sean McKnight, this project was produced by the Cinema Alliance team for the 48 Hour Film Project - Philadelphia, 2008. WINNER - ... (More)

A short film directed by Sean McKnight, this project was produced by the Cinema Alliance team for the 48 Hour Film Project - Philadelphia, 2008. WINNER - BEST SPECIAL EFECTS. We drew superhero for our genre in this round of the contest… The story we decided to tell is about a reluctant superhero that dreams of being what she truly is but has doubts about herself. As a result of her doubt and fear, she holds herself back. Her true test will come and she'll have to answer the call, but will she?. (Less)