UHF SELECTED TO SCREEN IN FRANCE!!

EXCITING NEWS! MY NEW EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO "UHF" IS AN OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR SCREENING AT THE 2014 VIDEOFORMES FESTIVAL IN CLERMONT-FERRAND FRANCE TO BE HELD THIS MARCH 19-22, 2014!

FOR THOSE UNABLE TO ATTEND PLEASE CHECK IT OUT ON VIMEO OR YOUTUBE!!

http://vimeo.com/70147078

http://youtu.be/lcL8DoPovts 

 

david ellis ( littleblackbox )'s photostream

david ellis ( littleblackbox )'s photostream on Flickr.

Please take a look at my still images including Polaroids, Pinhole Photos, Cell Phone Works as well as Videos and more on my Flickr Site!

8 Flick

     "8 Flick" - New from experimental Super-8 project!

"8 Flick" is part of a new experimental series of short and rather raw films created using vintage Super 8 film cameras. The film clips, transferred to digital files are then edited and enhanced with sound added.

I love the quality of film shot on super 8 film stock and am further intrigued with seeing how far this already great grainy and glitchy imagery can be pushed electronically. Pairing this imagery with electronically created music feels like a natural match!! Sound is by B-Complex (aka Matus Lenicky from Bratislava, Slovakia.) The track is " Black Eternity". Check out B-Complex on last.fm at last.fm/music/B-Complex

Your feedback is welcome-please let me know what you feel or think about this work! Thanks and I hope you enjoy it!! - David

DD IN NEW BEDFORD - 1st New Super 8 Clip

Super-8 Clip#1 DD In New Bedford a video by david ellis ( littleblackbox ) on Flickr.

Just have to post this short raw clip from my newest experimental Super-8 project! A fun little short!-Enjoy!

RoomFour: "Telling Me So" Flash-Film

 

JUST RELEASED!! New RoomFour EP Album LA SESSIONS FamilyCat Music Video!

Dallas based band RoomFour has just released a new EP called LA SESSIONS. 

The EP has three new songs recorded in LA at the studios of Aerosmith Producer,Warren Huart http://www.facebook.com/warrenhuartproducer. David Ellis, FamilyCat Productions and Michael Gomez of RoomFour worked together creating music videos for the three new songs. To hear this song and others and to purchase music by RoomFour check them out at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/l.a.-sessions-single/id560584569 and check them out on their Facebook page at:

http://www.facebook.com/roomfour. The writing and music of Michael Gomez and RoomFour is fantastic and...of course...I LOVE how the music Flash videos turned out too!

JUST HAVE TO SHARE THIS!! Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall(Live)

I just HAVE to share one of my all-time favorite rock performances...

the visuals are spectacular and I, please share your opinion, think that

the guitar work of Pink Floyd is some of the best EVER! I feel that all

that we experience and love influences what we create as artists and I

can certainly see some of the influence from these times on my film work

today in this spectacular "light-show". There are other clips of this song on

You Tube by the great "cover band" Australian Pink Floyd, that include

fantastic film clips and stills projected in a circle with the pyrotechnics

around it!

Perhaps the fact that I travelled doing light-shows and experimental

"happenings"performances during the mid 1960's and got to see the then

famous "Pablo" light-show (who, incidentally, I had partied with in Zihuatenejo,

Mexico earlier that year) that supplied the visuals for Buddy Miles

and the Electric Flag at The Fillmore East in NYC in 1967 that sewed

the subliminal seeds for what I am producing now in my films...

well....ok...maybe it was the subliminal "sin semilla"!

FLASH-FILMS: Three Experimental Shorts. A David Ellis Film. FamilyCat Productions.

Here is my latest project. It is a selection of three shorts; CLONE, REAKTOR and THREAT
with music by Berlin based Hanne Adam of adamned-age and features an original electronic piece
accompanying THREAT that I composed.

FLASH-FILMS was selected by the Oak Cliff Film Festival Dallas,TX 2012, Atlanta Shortsfest 2012 and it received the Award of Merit from The Indie Fest in La Jolla, CA 2012. So, we are on our way!
Can't wait to see where we screen next!

Hope you enjoy it!

F L A S H - F I L M S: Three Experimental Video Shorts
Director: David Ellis. FamilyCatProductions. Runtime:00:09:59
A selection of three experimental shorts using digital deconstruction and layered processing to create captivating animation-like videos. Each is sourced from a still photograph and extensively altered through multiple cycling frames, applied layers and textures forming the completed video. The first two clips feature soundtracks by acclaimed Berlin based electronic music composer Hanne Adam, adamned-age. The third, "T H R E A T", features an original electronic composition by the director. The three works seen together treat the viewer to a fascinating insight into director David Ellis' ongoing experimentation with alternative capture and computer generated video production.

PREMIERE STATUS: US Premiere, Texas Premiere, Dallas Premiere at 2012 Oak Cliff Film Festival, Texas Theater, Dallas TX
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS: 2012 Winner Indie Fest, La Jolla CA 2012 Atlanta Shortsfest, Atlanta GA
RUNTIME: 00:09:58

Director: David Ellis
Producer: FamilyCatProductionshttp://www.familycatproductions.blogspot.com
Music:
"C L O N E" - Hanne Adam, adamned.age http://www.adamned-age.com
"R E A K T O R" - Hanne Adam, adamned.age
"T H R E A T" - David Ellis http://www.youtube.com/user/DavidEllisVideoshttp://www.vimeo.com/davidellisvideos
Soundtrack Editor: David Ellis

Category:

Film & Animation

License:

Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)