Motion Work
Essay films, branded work and the storyworld pieces. Twenty years of pointing a camera at things, which is where the way I look at a room comes from.
Motion Work
Why You Love Disney Even When You're Miserable
At home I will not walk ten minutes for a coffee. Put me in a theme park and I will walk twelve hours in the heat and call it a holiday. I wanted to know what the park is doing, and what I am doing to myself.
The Last Roar: The Story of Théodore Lemieux | An AI Gothic Circus Film
In 1914 a circus train derails on a cold Vermont night, the animals escape, and the ringmaster is found dead. An AI-produced gothic mystery about control, fear, and the wildness people keep trying to cage. Produced by RetroMotion Creative.
Walt Disney Built Worlds. Then He Tried to Build Tomorrow.
A city is a fairly substantial departure from a talking mouse. What I wanted to know was how the question got that big, and what happens when the people inside your model turn out to have opinions.
The Origins of Hospitality Are Not What You Think
Strip away the marble and the turndown service and you find the original product underneath, which was never luxury. It was safety. And it was never a one-way arrangement.
A Robot, a Ghost, and a Bottle of Ginger Ale | A Gingery Christmas
An original short film for Venetian Soda Lounge and Venetian Beverages: a grumpy soda maker, a loyal robot named Gingy, and a ghost with unfinished family business and strong opinions about ginger ale. Built out of old soda plant lore and the emotional needs of mechanical employees.
Farmers Feed the World | Phoenix Feeds & Nutrition’s 20-Year Story
Twenty years of Phoenix Feeds & Nutrition told through the Northeast farmers they supply. A film about milk prices, succession, and the specific weight of keeping a family operation alive for one more generation.
Pine Street Therapy - owning a business
What running a lounge, several businesses, and a family at the same time actually does to a person. I went to therapy on camera, and the advice did not make the to-do list.
Venetian Artist Showcase: Julia Randell
Julia Randall performing "On the Internet" live at Venetian Soda Lounge, filmed by RetroMotion Creative. She won the lounge's Emerging Songwriters Competition, and the prize was a full day at Tank Recording Studios.
Does a Lemon Have a Soul?
A short bar skit built around the Maple Whiskey Sour. The lemon, it turns out, has feelings about being used this way.
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