Untitled Documentary:
One of Rowland's coworkers, Mario, is an avid movie buff trying to break into independent film
making, and was already tapped to be involved in Green. He prompted Rowland and
Patrick to start work on a documentary feature on the music scene in Long Beach, California,
digging into Rowland's now waning but still valid connections. This was still in the planning and
development stages when it was abandoned due to Mario's own lack of motivation.
Producer: Rowland
Director: Patrick
Script Supervisor: Jami
Screenplay: Rowland and Patrick
Story Consultants: Dana, Jami and Robin
Camera: Jami and Rowland
Starring: Mike, Richard, Troy, Rowland, Kerrie, Patrick, Dana, Robin and Jami, plus extras.
Plot summary: Okay, the script for Telephone got knocked around and
never got off the ground, but the ideas have morphed into this. Basically, it's the same scene told from
five perspectives, giving more pieces to an overall puzzle.
The first and fifth are a conversation set outside the room where some buddys are playing pool. The
second and fourth are from inside the room, one involving a character taking a phone call and the other
being the conversation that he missed while on the phone. The pivotal middle scene is the person at the
other end of the phone who's about to get a surprise visit.
More details are on the Green page.
Executive Producer: Pin-R Dave
Producers: Michael and Rowland
Director: Patrick
Cameramen: Dave, Mike, Rowland and Patrick
Starring: Dana, Robin, Mike, Rowland, Patrick, Dave, Richard, Jami, and God only knows who else at this point.
Vague plot summary: The concept essentially consists of a story that gets retold several times,
each time getting altered more and more perversely.
More details are on the Telephone page.
Total Sabotage:
Shot in March,1999, this is Pin-R Dave's new camera peeking between the curtains
out the apartment window, where he has placed trash cans in the middle of the street. Two hours
of footage garnered a few hits, several confused drive-arounds, and two visits from the LBPD.
"I am not a tweeker!":
At 3AM, put a strobe-light under the desk and Bach's "Little" Fugue on the stereo.
Then play around with several shoes, cups and dishes, two guitars and an iron. Film this and
confuse your friends.
Our first legitimate short film was shot in a week in April, 1998, written and
directed by Patrick, produced and filmed by Rowland, assisted by Alysha and Andy, starring
Nicholas, with props by Richard and Robin, music by Insight.
It will probably never be shown publicly if Dana can help it (she already censored its
showing at the 98 Halloween party). The
controversial details won't be discussed here, but let's just say it's a commentary against hatred,
bigotry and racism as they relate to a persons upbringing. The ending was hidden from all but
Patrick and Rowland until the final edit, and although I won't say, the story-boards give it away.
The point was simply this: can two guys with a video camera and two VCR's produce something
that can evoke a deep emotional repsonse? Yes, we definitely can!
More details are on the Patriot page.
[untitled]:
Patrick improvised a painting to Beethoven's ninth, second movement while Robin
filmed him. He used various paints, pencil, cut up magazines and glued in pieces, and other odd
tid-bits.
Version one was shot from above over his shoulder, somewhat too close-up. He stood at the
bar and mangled, scrawled, and created. The highlight was the unnoticed glue getting tipped
over and slowing dripping on the carpet while they filmed on obliviously.
Version two was less spontaneous looking, however now was more clear and watchable.
Robin filmed stationary from the corner of the room, and Pat started watching TV (to a premade
tape of clips from Psycho and Star Trek II) and approached a table
slowly becoming more aggressive in his strokes and cuts. The finale had him sitting on a stool
that sat precariously on top of the table, whilst he held the finished paper in view of the camera.
Pigs On The Wing, Part 1:
In early 1995, Rowland shot footage that he synced to this short Pink Floyd song,
culminating in a shot of a toy pig taped to the ceiling fan.
Our first music video in late 1994 was an attempt to put visuals to the studio
experiment noise we'd created a year previously (see music).
We had just obtained a second VCR, so this was really just an experiment in our new editing
capabilities in the living room.
Rowland and Patrick assembled clips from various films, including A Clockwork
Orange, Dr. Calagari, Star Trek V, Stephen King's The Stand, and two Monty
Python films: the shot of Death from The Meaning Of Life and the crucifixion
scene from The Life Of Brian, which was very disturbing now out of context. The
culmination was the sequence of mushroom clouds from the end of Dr. Strangelove.
I will eventually compile a chronological listing of each shot.
One of Rowland's coworkers, Mario, is an avid movie buff trying to break into independent film making, and was already tapped to be involved in Green. He prompted Rowland and Patrick to start work on a documentary feature on the music scene in Long Beach, California, digging into Rowland's now waning but still valid connections. This was still in the planning and development stages when it was abandoned due to Mario's own lack of motivation.
Producer: Rowland
Director: Patrick
Script Supervisor: Jami
Screenplay: Rowland and Patrick
Story Consultants: Dana, Jami and Robin
Camera: Jami and Rowland
Starring: Mike, Richard, Troy, Rowland, Kerrie, Patrick, Dana, Robin and Jami, plus extras.Plot summary: Okay, the script for Telephone got knocked around and never got off the ground, but the ideas have morphed into this. Basically, it's the same scene told from five perspectives, giving more pieces to an overall puzzle.
The first and fifth are a conversation set outside the room where some buddys are playing pool. The second and fourth are from inside the room, one involving a character taking a phone call and the other being the conversation that he missed while on the phone. The pivotal middle scene is the person at the other end of the phone who's about to get a surprise visit.
More details are on the Green page.
Executive Producer: Pin-R Dave
Producers: Michael and Rowland
Director: Patrick
Cameramen: Dave, Mike, Rowland and Patrick
Starring: Dana, Robin, Mike, Rowland, Patrick, Dave, Richard, Jami, and God only knows who else at this point.Vague plot summary: The concept essentially consists of a story that gets retold several times, each time getting altered more and more perversely.
More details are on the Telephone page.
Total Sabotage:
Shot in March,1999, this is Pin-R Dave's new camera peeking between the curtains out the apartment window, where he has placed trash cans in the middle of the street. Two hours of footage garnered a few hits, several confused drive-arounds, and two visits from the LBPD.
"I am not a tweeker!":
At 3AM, put a strobe-light under the desk and Bach's "Little" Fugue on the stereo. Then play around with several shoes, cups and dishes, two guitars and an iron. Film this and confuse your friends.
Our first legitimate short film was shot in a week in April, 1998, written and directed by Patrick, produced and filmed by Rowland, assisted by Alysha and Andy, starring Nicholas, with props by Richard and Robin, music by Insight.It will probably never be shown publicly if Dana can help it (she already censored its showing at the 98 Halloween party). The controversial details won't be discussed here, but let's just say it's a commentary against hatred, bigotry and racism as they relate to a persons upbringing. The ending was hidden from all but Patrick and Rowland until the final edit, and although I won't say, the story-boards give it away. The point was simply this: can two guys with a video camera and two VCR's produce something that can evoke a deep emotional repsonse? Yes, we definitely can!
More details are on the Patriot page.
[untitled]:
Patrick improvised a painting to Beethoven's ninth, second movement while Robin filmed him. He used various paints, pencil, cut up magazines and glued in pieces, and other odd tid-bits.Version one was shot from above over his shoulder, somewhat too close-up. He stood at the bar and mangled, scrawled, and created. The highlight was the unnoticed glue getting tipped over and slowing dripping on the carpet while they filmed on obliviously.
Version two was less spontaneous looking, however now was more clear and watchable. Robin filmed stationary from the corner of the room, and Pat started watching TV (to a premade tape of clips from Psycho and Star Trek II) and approached a table slowly becoming more aggressive in his strokes and cuts. The finale had him sitting on a stool that sat precariously on top of the table, whilst he held the finished paper in view of the camera.
Pigs On The Wing, Part 1:
In early 1995, Rowland shot footage that he synced to this short Pink Floyd song, culminating in a shot of a toy pig taped to the ceiling fan.
Our first music video in late 1994 was an attempt to put visuals to the studio experiment noise we'd created a year previously (see music). We had just obtained a second VCR, so this was really just an experiment in our new editing capabilities in the living room.Rowland and Patrick assembled clips from various films, including A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Calagari, Star Trek V, Stephen King's The Stand, and two Monty Python films: the shot of Death from The Meaning Of Life and the crucifixion scene from The Life Of Brian, which was very disturbing now out of context. The culmination was the sequence of mushroom clouds from the end of Dr. Strangelove.
I will eventually compile a chronological listing of each shot.