Tag: Videos & Films

  • Lunice – Distrust ft Denzel Curry, J.K. The Reaper and Nell From the Album CCCLX Out September 8th Video by Sam Rolfes www.samrolfes.com

  • An origin story, of sorts—LIGHTNINGFACE stars Oscar Isaac as Basil Stitt, who in the aftermath of an inexplicable incident, decides to sequester himself inside his apartment, setting the stage for a profound transformation. Written and directed by Brian Petsos. http://bit.ly/2eHL8HN Official Selection of the 2016 BFI London Film Festival, 2016 Brooklyn Film Festival, 2016 Denver Film Festival, 2016 Marfa Film Festival, 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival, 2016 New Hampshire Film Festival, 2016 New Orleans Film Festival, 2016 Nitehawk Shorts Festival, 2016 Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2016 Short Shorts Film Festival, 2016 Tacoma Film Festival, 2016 Virginia Film Festival, 2017 Atlanta Film Festival, 2017 Capital City Film Festival, 2017 Collinsville Film Festival, 2017 Dingle International Film Festival, 2017 Manchester Film Festival, 2017 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, 2017 Montclair Film Festival, 2017 Nashville Film Festival, 2017 Newport Beach Film Festival, 2017 Omaha Film Festival, 2017 Oxford International Film Festival, 2017 RiverRun International Film Festival, and the 2017 Sioux Empire Film Festival. Nominated for Best Actor (Oscar Isaac) at the 2017 Vaughan International Film Festival, and Best Narrative Comedy at the 2016 Miami Short Film Festival. Winner of the Vortex Grand Prize at the 2016 Rhode Island International Film Festival, and Best Short Film at the 2016 Filmfestival Kitzbühel. LIGHTNINGFACE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY 
 Brian Petsos PRODUCED BY Brian Petsos
 Cary Flaum
 Milos S. Silber
 Todd Wiseman Jr. STARRING 
Oscar Isaac EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS 
Kristen Wiig 
Taryn Benesta
 Oscar Isaac
 Zach Lasry DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
 Daniel Katz PRODUCTION DESIGNER 
Chris Trujillo 

EDITOR
 Bryan Gaynor COSTUME DESIGNER 
Stacey Berman

 ORIGINAL MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN
 Justin Hori HAIR, MAKEUP, AND PROSTHETIC DESIGNER 
Lexan Rosser

 LINE PRODUCER — Eddy Vallante
 FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR — Eric LaFranchi
 SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR — Adam Keleman

 OSCAR ISAAC as Basil Stitt, and Rick (voice) 
TIM ROCK as The Pizza Man
 KRISTEN WIIG as Katherine (voice)
 ERIKA RANKIN as Tanya (voice)
 JULIE PETSOS as Mrs. Stitt (voice) CO-PRODUCER — Bryan Gaynor
 ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS — Daniel Katz, Justin Hori, Micah Scarpelli

 GAFFERS — Zach Frank, Chad Dougherty
 KEY GRIP — Matt Kessler
 PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER — Alberto Leon
 FIRST ASSISTANT CAMERA — Adrien Bertolle
 ART DIRECTOR — Nora Mendis
 POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR — Cary Flaum
 CG — Justin Miller
 VFX — Nic Seresin, Cagan Yuksel, Liam Kirtley, Inti Martinez, Ryan Saxe
 DIGITAL INTERMEDIATE — Company 3 New York
 COLORIST — Rob Sciarratta 
 ONLINE EDITOR — Lucas Howard
 ASSISTANT TO MR. ISAAC — Natalie Gee
 FINAL MIX — Bang Audio Post
 RE-RECORDING MIXERS — Nick Cipriano, Paul Vitolins 
 ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER — Karen Boyer
 COSTUME DEPARTMENT INTERN — Grace Interlichia
 ON SET DRESSER — Dani Broom-Peltz
 SET DRESSER — Thomas Macowski
 SECOND ASSISTANT CAMERA AND DIT — Jamie Li
 STEADICAM OPERATOR — Afton Grant
 BEST BOY ELECTRIC — Sean Coia
 BEST BOY GRIP — Lori Dinsmore
 LOAD OUT GRIPS — Brad Morse, Max Barlow
 DI PRODUCER — Nick Monton
 COLOR ASSISTANT — Giovanni DiGiorgio 
COMPANY 3 EXECUTIVE PRODUCER — Stefan Sonnenfeld
 STILL PHOTOGRAPHER — Alisha Wetherill
 CATERING — David Dreishpoon’s Gourmet Craft Service 
PRODUCTION LEGAL — David M. Slater

 VERY SPECIAL THANKS 
Shishi, Grong, and Chooch

 SPECIAL THANKS
 Dan Berk, Steven Petsos, Jeremy Good, Drew Leary, Jonathan Gray, Alex Resnikoff and Hand Held Films, Jerome Thelia, Terry Leonard, Bradley E. Randall, Alex Lavrenov, and SAG-AFTRA FEATURING THE MUSIC OF 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 and Iannis Xenakis
 Vic Damone
 Grotesque
 and Albert Ayler FILMED ON LOCATION IN NEW YORK CITY This motion picture is protected pursuant to the provisions of the laws of the United States of America and other countries. Any unauthorized duplication, distribution and/or exhibition of this motion picture may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution. Characters and incidents portrayed and the names herein are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, characters or history of any person is entirely coincidental and unintentional. © 2016 Lightningface LLC. All rights reserved. http://bit.ly/2eHL8HN (Significant inquiries may be directed to nobody@asaboteur.com and will be responded to accordingly.)

  • A surreal journey through the dream of video game character who has been K.O. during a match.

  • A small film about some of the big things in life. When is the time to settle, have kids and a partner for life? Does that commitment means you will never be able to dance or watch Game Of Thrones all night long? In this vibrant visual poem we observe a young man and woman and hear them discuss these universal reflections. They don’t have any final answers – just a lot ‘ifs’. The frustrating beauty of life. — Film of the month by Niccolò Montanari (Founder of Berlin Fashion Film Festival) at NotJustALabel.com: “A short film questioning the meaning of life, while appreciating and reflecting on its beauty.” — Written & directed // Jeppe Kolstrup Starring // Eliott Lewis and Nathalie Beaulieu DoP // Chris Lew Format // Kodak 35mm Producer // Surhay Nart Kilic Editor // Ryan Løkke Color // Lasse Marcussen/Cameo Sound // Lars Bo / Audio Lounge Music // Rasmus Yde PR // Sascha Kirk Post producer + artwork // Camilla Søholt Production company // Bad Land

  • A fisherman down to the DNA, Carter Andrews has no choice but to go out there and catch everything that swims. Described by a friend as a “wild man”, he does have a certain intensity about him. But you don’t have only anglers as friends unless you’re still lit up with raw joy every time a fish bites.

  • Photographer Joshua Holko: “The product of more than two years of planning Ghosts of the Arctic was filmed exclusively in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard in the depths of Winter. It is my hope that the film will impart some of the haunting beauty of this incredibly precious and endangered polar wilderness; as well as give you some insight into my life as a Polar photographer. I hope you will take six minutes out of your day, set your display to full screen, turn off the lights, crank up the volume, and allow Ghosts of the Arctic to transport you away to one of the world’s most spectacular polar regions; in it’s rarely seen winter veil. Please Enjoy. My most sincere thanks to both Abraham Joffe and Dom West from Untitled Film Works who worked tirelessly for a week straight putting in eighteen hour days in freezing temperatures to shoot and produce this film. My thanks and gratitude also to my friend Frede Lamo who likewise worked tirelessly with good humour and whose assistance with expedition logistics simply made the impossible, possible. Without the dedication of this team this film would simply not have been possible. It would be remiss of me not to also provide a little insight into what it was like to make this short film. During the shoot we experienced temperatures that were never warmer than -20ºC and frequently plummeted down as low as -30ºC + wind chill factor. We were exposed to the cold and elements for up to sixteen straight hours a day. Many days we drove over two hundred kilometres on our snow mobiles in very difficult terrain and conditions as we searched for wildlife. The bumpy terrain left us battered, bruised and sore. We experienced three cases of first and second degree frostbite during the filming as well as a lot of failed equipment and equipment difficulties as a result of the extreme cold. We had batteries that would loose their charge in mere minutes, drones that wouldn’t power up and fly, cameras that wouldn’t turn on, steady-cams that would not remain steady, HDMI cables that became brittle and snapped in the cold, frozen audio equipment, broken LCD mounts, broken down snow mobiles and more. We existed on a diet of freeze dried cod and pasta washed down with tepid coffee and the occasional frozen mars bar. It is hard to put the experience into words, but just the simple act of removing ones gloves to change a memory card in these sort of temperatures when you are exhausted comes with a serious risk of frostbite. In my own case, I removed my face covering for one three minute take and suffered frostbite (from which I have not fully recovered) across the entire right hand side of my face. And whilst not all of this will come across in the film, I think I can safely say it was without any shadow of a doubt the toughest film shoot any of us have done. For the technically inclined: Ghosts of the Arctic was shot in the 2.35:1 cinema ratio in 6K+4K resolution. Absolutely no wildlife was interfered with in any way shape or form during the filming and everything you see is totally natural behaviour.

  • A short documentary brought to you by Poland Spring. After a brutal mugging left him with traumatic brain injury, John Pierre decided to ‘suit up’ in a neon cape and lightning bolt socks, emerging as the New York running community’s very own superhero. Special thanks to Achilles International (http://bit.ly/2uJEoPF) Director: Charles Frank Client: Poland Spring Agency: Vox Creative Head of Production: Greg T. Gordon Creative Director: Cristina Cerullo Campaign Producer: Alexandria Fontanez Production Company: Voyager Executive Producer: Andrew Hutcheson Head of Production: David Brickel Producer: Alex Liebman Cinematographer: Taylor Mcintosh Editors: Nico Bovat & Charles Frank Sound Mixer: Pablo Diez Casajuana PA: Dom Del Russo PA: Ozum Demirel Music: Pinc Louds (http://bit.ly/2vJlLIJ) & Chris Zabriskie (http://bit.ly/2uJXmFs) Audio Post: One Thousand Birds Audio Post Producer: Kira MacKnight Sound Designer: Calvin Pia

  • Probably the world’s first cathedral flow motion. Something of a passion project for me getting to shoot my home town and capture it in it’s best light. Constructed in 1096 Norwich Cathedral dominates the Norwich skyline to this day. Was super cool getting to explore all the secret areas whilst working on the video. Facebook http://bit.ly/2vsRPRH http://bit.ly/1AKnflo http://bit.ly/2vszmEN Twitter @Nrw_Cathedral @kwhi02 @VisitNorwich Instagram http://bit.ly/2uj5k89 http://bit.ly/1AffxxE http://bit.ly/2uiJ2U0

  • “You don’t know what you don’t know, and it might be better than what you do…” Another one in our series of six city portraits for Rapha. Executive Producer: Dalia Burde Creative Director: Amani King Director/DP: Spencer MacDonald Editor: Cooper Kenword Production Manager: Bijan Rafie-Tari AC: Troy Dickerson Production Co: Avocados and Coconuts Art Director: David Evans Sound Mix: Chris Konovaliv @ Audiolux Color: AJ Molle Client: Rapha

  • A huge thanks to everyone who has stepped into this story with me and my family. I’m forever grateful. -Jon http://bit.ly/2uihKeV