thinfilms

demo reel

calease — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:13:27 +0000

thinfilms shoots and edits using state-of-the-art industry standard tools, including HDDSLR technology, Canon L lenses, Zacuto, Red Rock Micro, Final Cut Studio, Creative Suite, and more. Click to view the demo reel.

the whole (short) story

calease — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:41:41 +0000

This kid gets a tape recorder for his seventh birthday and begins documenting the world around him: the sounds of chairs, refrigerators, birds, trains, doors, pups, people, wind, you name it, he recorded it. He liked it so much he managed to get another one and figured out how to bounce tracks between them, mixing music, foley, and conversations into skits, radio shows, and man-on-the-street interviews. He continues tinkering with tools and methods of greater complexity as they became available to him.

Years later, in Alaska he is fortuitously tasked with capturing the oral histories of Native Alaskan Tribal Elders over multiple years for a project run by the DOE, SERRC, and the University of Alaska. How could he have known then how such masters of storytelling would influence him?

After working in technology for a few more years, bending it to the will of many, he stopped one day and asked himself, “Huh. What would I do with all this stuff?” Next thing he knew, he had built a massive art installation, a meditation on the historical and social implications of public video surveillance in the United States. He had used sound, video feeds, data visualization, projection, print, viral – every tool at his disposal to tow a line between the safe and the shackled poles of perception in the science and art of being watched. That experiment opened a door from technology into creative pursuits. Instead of working only on the complex systems behind clients like Anhueser-Busch, Cargill, Revlon, and more, he now had insider’s eyes into a very different kind of storytelling culture, though one no less exciting.

That experience led to the birth of thinfilms, LLC, a platform that enables the combination of ancient and cutting-edge storytelling cultures, crafting them into new and unique experiences for audiences primarily on mobile devices and the Web.

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11 second films

calease — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:12:06 +0000

thinfilms is committed to sharing knowledge, especially in the contexts of media, technical, and visual literacy and has contributed to this end through curating projects such as 11secondfilms.org, involving young learners in friendly, simplified production exercises and, in turn, produces work of seemingly boundless imagination. One example is that clip there. Click and view only a single example: a 16-second stop-motion animation created by 8-year-olds, together on small production teams, in a single, whimsical afternoon.

Demonstrating to all ages while tinkering with friendly production exercises and eliminating layers of complexity helps us learn more than just the processes of making short films. As we play with capturing images and sounds, we discover voices, sometimes our own, while gaining insights into what goes into creating media, the tools we seek fluency in in order to simply communicate better with each other. Meanwhile, we ask questions about them all, taking cues from sources such as the Center for Media Literacy. There are many more resources like these just waiting to be discovered and shared with the future of our own children.

Visit 11secondfilms.org for a collection of such expressions.
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production stills

calease — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:11:48 +0000

thinfilms has traveled around the world shooting and editing for a broad range of clients in public, private, government and academic sectors.

flight

calease — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:21:41 +0000

charlie parr : mastodon

calease — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:24:37 +0000

sticks

chad — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:41:32 +0000

50 Dangerous Things

calease — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:03:18 +0000

FIREWORKS

calease — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:11:41 +0000

pupsnoozin

chad — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:31:04 +0000

Habitat for Humanity : Senegal

chad — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:44:21 +0000

A small window into the experience of students from the Benjamin Franklin International School in Barcelona who spent a week near Dakar, Senegal in Mbaye Fall, working in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity.