Scenarios USA film in Cleveland

Last weekend the new short film, Speechless, written by Roxanne Lasker-Hall and directed by Karyn Kusama filmed here in Cleveland.  Here are some pics of the Behind-The-Scenes crew.

making some new business cards…

Everything Went Down a film by Dustin Morrow

My friend, singer/songwriter and composer Kate Tucker stars in a new movie directed by Dustin Morrow. Check out their kickstarter campaign and video.

I was impressed to see that the producers are donating all profits to music therapy programs for children. The film also stars actor, Noah Drew.

Visit the film’s website www.everythingwentdown.com

Here’s the music video for the song of the same name

Everything Went Down

 

Photos taken at Discovery Montessori School

Graypants

https://vimeo.com/23006816

Their video shows how they use cardboard and plywood to create some amazing designs.

Kate Tucker – First to Leave

“First to Leave” by Kate Tucker. A music video by Miriam Bennett, Jessie English, and Marshall Burnette. From the White Horses album. Download with free bonus track at katetucker.bandcamp.com

Bullet Train

Moving Studio and Red Valise Recordings present Bullet Train featuring Kate Tucker and Darryl Dickenson directed by Miriam Bennett.

Collaborations with Kate Tucker

Since we are getting ready to release our 7th collaborative music video project I thought I’d post the earlier videos and a little bit about them here on the blog.

The first video Say Love was not only our first collaboration but it was the first music video that I ever directed and the first one that Kate released. The song was off her EP, Eros Turannos. The video went on to win the grand prize for music video on ourstage.com. That was also the first time we collaborated with Darryl Dickenson who was the DP for that video, the next, and now appears in front of the camera in The soon-to-be-released Bullet Train.

We shot this video in my 100-year-old house that I had moved into not long ago. Through the making of this video I learned more about my adopted state of Ohio and the wildlife and landscape that I have come to feel increasingly connected to.

The next video we made together was for the song Everything Went Down of the debut album Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden. We shot this partly in Ohio and partly in Seattle where we filmed the performance video live at the Act theatre with her band The Sons of Sweden.

We shot the rest in Akron using a donated warehouse to build a set and invading local alley ways and gardens along the way.

The next video was departure from the narrative premise of the first two as we wanted to make something more spare and documentary in nature. This video, In the End, was shot in partly by me Seattle on 16mm film using my old Bolex and partly in LA by Tim Gillis. We got the film and processing from Alpha Cine and did the telecine with a very cool outfit called Cinelicious located in Hollywood, CA.

In June 2010 Kate released the album White Horses independently using funding from a successful Kickstarter campaign. She sent me the songs and I started to visualize a little half movie half music video for the track Bullet Train. I sent the concept to Kate and Darryl and we were off. We shot the video in our spare time in-between other projects over the course of about a year, shooting on and off working around Kate and Darryl’s travel and production schedules. That video will be released at her Akron show this Saturday! The crew was sometimes just Kate, Darryl and myself. At other times my friends Dan Gillespie (purple films), Fawn Stevens, Steph Mukenyi Wahome, and Bill Daubner joined in.

In the mean time we did two other videos, I’m On Fire, a beautiful cover of Bruce Springsteen’s song (mixed by Michael Shepard of Lovedrug) and Where Are You (I am Already Gone) recently featured on Showtime’s United States of Tara soundtrack. Both of these were shot more as mini-docs than as narrative music videos. The latter gave me the chance to collaborate with NY-based photographer Jesse Sarah English.

I’ve learned a lot and had many adventures working with Kate on these projects. And I’m excited to be there for the release Bullet Train at Musica this Saturday!

Bullet Train music video premiere and full band show with Kate Tucker and Michael Shepard at Musica

On Saturday July 30th Kate Tucker will be in Akron, OH to celebrate the release of her latest music video, Bullet Train, directed by Miriam Bennett and Blue December, directed by Dustin Morrow. The show is at Musica in Downtown Akron, right across from the Akron Art Museum.

Kate Tucker full band show to celebrate the
Music Video Premiere for Bullet Train and Blue December
with
Michael Shepard (lovedrug)

Saturday July 30
8pm, all ages, $8adv/$10dos get tickets here
facebook.com/katetuckermus​ic akronmusica.com

Endgame

Created for the Cleveland Museum of Arts Viva & Gala performance series production of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” directed by Massoud Saidpour.

These were combined with set design and projected at the start of the performance in the historic Brooks Theatre at the Cleveland Play House, 8500 Euclid Ave. The performance runs through June 11th

cleveland.com/​arts/​index.ssf/​2011/​05/​endgame_shows_the_humor_hopele.html

“Interestingly, Saidpour begins and ends the production with a projected title and credits, and eschews a curtain call. In this and other ways, he reduces the sharing and closeness common to most live theater, giving added resonance to the play’s theme of profound disconnection. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer reviewer