Category: Video
The Janion Building
A short film I made at UVic this semester. Social commentary on the continuing conversion of heritage buildings into condos with store front.
Flight 009
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These were a part of Wolf/Sheep’s Halloween stunt last year. The video was edited by Arya Hawker, and shot and directed by Wolf/Sheep members Erik Van Kobra, Elisa DeVille, Genghis Shawn, and Sarah Savage while bored and stranded for the night in The Seattle-Tacoma Airport on the way home from a trip to New York. What they created was a very believable, compelling, and fun recreation of The Blair Witch Project set in an airport.
The article was written by yours truly under the pseudonym “James Smyth” (my middle name, my mother’s maiden name, and an alias I’ve used for years). The gang asked me to write something based on the video that they had created. My mind raised on comic books and fiction immediately asked itself about the history of Sea-Tac. I looked up the history of crashes at the airport. I used the real life people; I did it in the most respectful manor I could. I wanted to create something grounded in reality. Reba Monk was a real life flight attendant and hero who died saving people at Sea-Tac. Heather Jones is a fictional character, although the story of the flight she was supposed to have been on is quite real.
Kyle Dark designed what I wrote to look like a real article and we released it on our social feeds with little to no explanation. A week later on Halloween we released the video and set all of our Facebook profile photos and banners to black.
Wolf/Sheep
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWolfSheepArthouse?feature=watch
Arya on Facebook
http://wolf-sheep.com/creative/home/item/the-end-is-here-visuals
http://wolf-sheep.com/creative/home/item/the-end-is-here-visuals
Visual show from Wolf/Sheep’s last art show The End is Here