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films by UT RTF faculty

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North Side Blues

North Side Blues is a music video for the band Eleven Hundred Springs (and yes their name does come from a Pearl can). I like to think of this video as a sort of discovery channel historo-fiction. It is based (loosely) on a real life story of love and loss.

  • DIR Geoff Marslett PROD Melanie West CAM Geoff Marslett MUS Eleven Hundred Springs
  • USA | DV | 3 min | 2002

    • The Lancebian

    The Lancebian is a "performative documentary" featuring Mocha Jean Herrup, a lesbian who channels the energy of NSYNC, boy-band member Lance Bass. Through vérité footage and a heartfelt interview, the audience learns about the neurosis and insecurity felt by a soon to be pop-icon, "The Lancebian."

  • DIR, CA, PROD, ED Jenn Garrison CAST Mocha Jean Herrup
  • USA | 11min | 2002

    • Pontiac Slipstream

  • Pontiac Slipstream is an excerpt from the longer film Eight Movements.

    • During the fires last summer, we drove along the rural highways of New Mexico and Colorado creating a frame-by-frame photographed record of the journey at roughly fifteen-second intervals. The footage begins in Santa Fe, New Mexico and travels through Grants, the El Malpais Lava Flows, El Morro National Monument, Gallup, Highway 666, Farmington, Mesa Verde, Durango, Silverton, Cinnamon Pass, Lake City, Alamosa, Espanola, and back into Santa Fe (and of course all the space in-between). The music accompanying this piece is by the Howe Gelb (of Giant Sand fame). The music chronicles the change of society and land in America. The visuals chronicle the changing expanse of highway.

  • DIR Melanie West, Geoff Marslett PROD Geoff Marslett, Melanie West CAM Geoff Marslett, Melanie West MUS Howe Gelb
  • USA | Super8 on DV | 2003

    • Seven Days

  • (work in progress)

    • Richard Nixon's first quarter in office, the bombing of Cambodia and the death of Eisenhower as seen through the eyes of his Irish Setter King Timahoe.

  • DIR, WR David Barker DP Isaac MathesPROD Trent Cumming, David BarkerED Jeff Groth, David BarkerPROD DESIGN Andrea GoodsonWARDROBEKatie PlattCAST Donald Sneed, Ev Lunning, Dirk van Allen, David Stahl, Thomas R. Chamberlain, Kevin A. Remington, Donald M. Stewart, Ch. Meadowlark's Quartermaster "J.E.B."
  • USA | Super8 | 10min | 2003

    • Trip To Roswell, New Mexico

    Trip To Roswell, New Mexico is an alien-filled music video for Joe West's song by the same name. It's shot entirely on digital video on location in New Mexico with some visual effects added in back here in Austin.

  • DIR Geoff Marslett, PROD Melanie West, Geoff Marslett CAM Geoff Marslett, Melanie West MUS Joe West ANIM Geoff Marslett, Mike Werckle
  • USA | DV | 2003

    • His Eye is on the Sparrow

    Ethel Caffie-Austin is West Virginia's "First Lady of Gospel Music." Oral history is combined with direct cinema to tell a story of personal freedom.

  • DIR Anne Lewis DP Peter Pearce
  • USA | Beta | color | 28min | 1999
  • "I sing because I'm happy
  • I sing because I'm free
  • For his eye is on the sparrow
  • And I know He watches me."

    • Nuclear Family

  • (work in progress)

    • Nuclear Family is a three-part documentary essay on boys and girls in Texas. Using some traditional cinéma vérité techniques, it explores the collective nature of three familiar rites of passage‹cheerleading tryouts, Friday night football games, and weddings‹and conjoins them into something entirely unique, a metaphoric Texas (and American) family. Think Dziga Vertov in Fort Worth.

  • DIR Don Howard DP Geoff Winningham, Lee Daniels, Deb Lewis, David Layton PHOTO Geoff Winningham
  • USA | 16mm | 57min | 2003







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