November Volta

It's New Volta time again.



New Volta film club will be screening some Irish film talent tomorrow night!

This month I'm screening 2 films. Gasp!

My controversial film "OJ Meets Letterman"
and
a short series of sketches I worked on with Carol Freeman, Nicholas Grey and Mark Mullery which is not available for viewing online! Double gasp!

So come along for fun and frolics!

Thing: New Volta Film Club
Date: Tuesday 3rd November
Time: 8:00pm
Place: Upstairs Bewley's Cafe Grafton St.
Fee: NONE!
Awesome: Yes

New Volta Facebook

DABDA

So I finally put my graduate film online.
The end result of a year of horrible work and stress (with a thesis involved to boot). I thought I hated it for months but when I finally finished it I was quite pleased with the end result. Still am! So without much further Apu, here it is as it looked at the 2009 IADT Graduate exhibition and the 2009 Galway Film Fleadh:

(You might want to expand it for the full effect)


YouTube Link
EDIT: Vimeo Link

The Amazing Few Part 2

So, The Amazing Few are playing Tripod on Saturday the 10th of October at 23:00. (That's tomorrow night!)
On the screen (hopefully) should be some animation by yours truly.

Do come along!

The Amazing Few

This video isn't new but I felt it should get mentioned up here.
The Amazing Few are a Dublin based Ska/Punk/Psychobilly/Fun type band who are great. I've done a few bits of animation for them over the last year or so, I've been asked to do a bit more for their upcoming show.

I thought I'd show you this live video of their song 'Bruce Lee Movie' from their upcoming live DVD. The projections behind the band were designed and animated by me.
Enjoy:



PS. I'm also visible dancing like a fool somewhere in the audience

New Volta

For some stupid reason it didn't occur to me to post about New Volta until now.

New Volta is a film screening club that's just emerged in Dublin run by Bob Gallagher. The intent is to hold a monthly screening of shorts made by just about anyone, as festival circuits can be difficult to get on.
Today's was in Bewley's on Grafton St. and went very well. My graduate film DABDA was screened along with others. New Volta should be returning on the first Tuesday of every month from now on.

Here's the Facebook page with a still from DABDA for a profile picture. Heh!

EDIT: DABDA can now be found here!

Star Wars Uncut

I got a link to the site Star Wars Uncut a while ago and figured I'd give one a try. What they've done is chopped up A New Hope into 15 second segments and doled them out to whomever wants to recreate them.
I think it's an idea that has some potential and hopefully the end result will be kind of cool and have an interesting flow to it.
Anyway here's my 15 seconds:



PS. They're going by the 2004 version of the film unfortunately, I can't always have my way. I'm hoping the nerds will shine through and either remove the glaring extras or at least mock them.

Galway Film Fleadh!

The Galway Film Fleadh is upon us! My short film DABDA is screening on Sunday and I am excited that people will be seeing it.
Unfortunately I won't be able to be there but I hope that people enjoy it.
The screening is at 12:30 along with the other Debut Animation Shorts. Six others are directed by friends and former classmates of mine. These are:

Pest
directed by Darragh Duffy
The Office Environment
directed by Mark Mullery
The Amaze-tastic Inspiration Machine
directed by David Hynes
On the Quiet
directed by Eamonn O'Neill
Safety Brief
directed by Brian Hoary
Tawny Woods
directed by Jason Watts

I urge everyone to check these films out as they are brilliant.

Full programme details can be found here. Yes they spelled my name wrong. Yes it says documentaries. But who cares eh?

Enjoy!

EDIT: My film can now be found here!