Category Archives: Movies

Teddy and the GoPro

Art, Dance, Filmmaking, Movies, Performance, Projection, San Antonio

A version of this found itself into the over-all video design for Julia Langenberg’s Echo, an evening of aerial dance with live music (composed by Jaime Ramirez) and live video projection (provided by me) which was staged in a Blue Star venue on December 11, 12, 13, 2014. The performer on the double halo is Elise “Teddy” Sipos. (I should point out that the music here is really sped up from Jaime’s score). The video was shot by using a GoPro mounted to Teddy’s apparatus. I composed the layers in Resolume and then exported the video. I like the shifting images of wood to convey a sense of vertigo.

 

Feeding You

Filmmaking, Movies

 

FEEDING YOU (2014).

Writer:

Carmen Tafolla (poem).

Director, DP. editor:

Erik Bosse

Additional production assistance from:

Billy Muñoz, Pamela Dean Kenny.

Cast:

Lisa Suarez, Grace Rain Landry Lopez, and Anna De Luna.

Music:

“Cumbia de la Cocina” by Jaime Ramirez and Travis Vela. Musicos: Jaime Ramirez, Travis Vela, and John Fernandez.

Special thanks:

Annette Landry, Jump-Start Performance Co., San Antonio Department for Culture and Creative Development, Three Chord Media, and the San Antonio Film Commission.

It was a great honor to be asked to contribute a film for the very first San Antonio Poet Laureate Short Film Project. I was selected along with six other filmmakers: Ray Santisteban, Daniela Riojas, Guillermina Zabala, Ya’Ke Smith, Joey Fauerso, and Jim Mendiola. Impressive company. Add to that the fact that San Antonio’s first poet laureate was Carmen Tafolla, made the whole project that much more special. I was given several of Carmen’s wonderful poems. I chose “Feeding You” for two reasons. It had a narrative quality I was drawn to. But also because when I read it, my mind went directly to Lisa and little Gracie. They were both so wonderful.

Here’s a production still with Lisa chopping tomatoes as Annette looks on.

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Here we have me at the screening (they showed all the films twice to packed audiences at the Say Sí black box theater), and also Gracie standing beside Carmen Tafolla (I had forgotten that they are old friends–I believe Carman has babysat Gracie before).

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There was a significant budget connected with these films, and I was so happy to be able to reward the hard work of people who so often work for little to no compensation. Here is one of my favorite photos from the shoot. I gave Gracie her first professional actress payment. She literally ran up and down the street with that hundred dollar bill fluttering from between her fingers. I believe she spent some of it on something called Build-a-Bear.

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My Year in Instagram

Art, Cycling, Dance, Filmmaking, Movies, Music, Performance, San Antonio

 

My second Instagram movie. Certainly there’s nothing wrong with viewing one’s life through various lenses. Such as the ephemeral snapshots of a cell phone. Here we have a slice of my year (2013) from highlights of my Instagram feed. It seems that my life is crammed full of bicycle rides, enchilada plates, imprudent selfies, and oh so many pretty people. Life could be a lot worse. Music by my favorite Austin space rock ensemble, ST 37 (“Stack Collision with Heap”).

Suzy Says….

Filmmaking, Movies, Music, Music Videos, San Antonio

 

Suzy Bravo (a veteran of the San Antonio music scene) was in the band Hogbitch when I shot this. This tiny clip was taken from their music video I shot (directed by Pete Barnstrom). I usually don’t slow down video (unless I shot it for slow motion), because it almost always looks like shit. However, when you push the contrast up against the wall, and when you are working with an image of someone as beautiful and intense as Suzy, it sometimes works. I added some “music” I created and placed this attention-grabbing short on my FaceBook, accompanied with a link to a crowdfunding website that the band was using to fund-raise for their debut album.