Influential Videos

Rubber opening scene
Doxology 
Here are a couple of film links that inspire me. I am particularly interested in surrealist film and nonsensical, humor related content. Rubber is a fantastic film done by a surrealist french director by the name of Quentin Dupieux that stars a telepathic rubber tire that goes on a murdering spree in the desert. The whole movie conveys a message 'against reason' that is especially clear with the opening scene that I linked. Doxology, another excellent surrealist film, is done by Michael Landan and juxtaposes different scenes of no reason and humorous oxymorons.

Dora the Explora From Hell
I do not have any films that I have directly worked on, however I did pick a link of a part of a Robot Chicken exert to show my interest in stop motion animation. I have been very fortunate to have interned with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in the puppet department where my interest in stop-motion animation started and I got to see behind the scenes what was possible in this medium. I have since worked on sculpture with the goal to learn digital video in order to combine the two with stop motion animation. Robot Chicken has been very innovative in the use of dolls and action figures turned into puppets for a stop-motion TV series. RC is one of the best and longest running examples of stop motion animation on air, which is why it was recently exhibited at the Walt Disney Museum in the Presidio.

My first exposure to film
Finally I thought I'd share a link to my first experience with film. It is me as a baby on my father's public access show in Los Angeles that he did from 1984 up until a few years ago when the public access station shut down. The show was names Art Fein's Poker Party and features my pops and his buddies talking about their niche interests in Rock and Roll history and features thousands of guest performers.