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)

L I G H T H E A D - A David Ellis video and FamilyCat production

LIGHTHEAD- 00:02:06 An experimental computer generated video by David Ellis
featuring the electronic music of Alex Shining and Moscow based Antropsy found on

www.LastFM.com/music/antropsy. This experimental short-short video was created using an interactive program posted on an obscure Japanese website, recorded while using and then further edited with applied layers, enhancement and digital deconstruction.

F R I T Z

A NEW SHORT-SHORT VIDEO SKETCH!

F R I T Z - runtime 00:02:24 created by filmmaker David Ellis is a short-short experimental video/animation "sketch" featuring the electronic music of Laurent Bisch and Fingers In The Noise. The track Fish On the Clouds is an excerpt from a beautiful and longer version by Fingers in The Noise.
Check them out on Soundcloud at http://soundcloud.com/fitn
Contact David Ellis and FamilyCat productions at davidellisimages@gmail.com

To listen to more music by Fingers In The Noise: http://soundcloud.com/fitn

VIDEO FESTIVAL SITE IN MADRID!

david ellis | david | Gallery » | Imagery Dimension Art Innovation International Festival
http://www.imagerydimension.com/members/davidellis/

J E T

Here is my latest clip featuring the sound of the Russian electronic music group Antropsy. It has an interesting origin; a circuitous cyber journey to its present form from birth in an obscure Japanese geeky website with interactive screen "games". On the Japanese site I found a virtual digital "etch-a-sketch" type of game where images could be drawn and manipulated using the cursor creating black & white and half tone digitized patterns and textures. As I drew the digitally textured surface on the screen, changing its lines and patterns, I saved image after image until completing the screen drawing. I later reconfigured them into a short stop-action animation that eventually became J E T through the application of multiple layers of effects. 


It is fitting that I would also find the fascinating sounds of Antropsy through another website in Germany linking me to hear them on a remote site for electronic musicians out of Moscow. I marvel at how the original code of the first drawn image not only holds up through the process, but evolves into a totally new and beautiful moving form not resembling its source at all. That this visual journey through time and space could be created by combining and transforming such distant and unlikely components is truly magic. The process and the experience are the story....there is no ending...


To hear more of the sounds of Antropsy: http://www.last.fm/music/Antropsy