Mariana
Directed by Chris Gude
Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Color grading
Sound design, sound edit, 5.1 mix. Feature film.
In this experimental road movie, director Chris Gude (Mambo Cool) follows two smugglers attempting to cross into Colombia from Venezuela. As the men drive across the sun-soaked terrain of the Guajira peninsula, occasionally stopping off to wander or play pool in the lonely ruins of abandoned buildings, their journey comes to symbolize a search for an idealized land. Gesturing toward Colombia’s colonial legacy (such as when the pair listen to a Hugo Chávez radio broadcast about Simón Bolívar), this beautifully photographed film gives the viewer ample room to ponder questions of space and identity.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
FIDMarseille, Ourense International Film Festival – Award for Best Director, Lincoln Center – Neighboring Scenes, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, FIDOCS (Chile), Márgenes (Spain), Fronteira (Brazil), Transcinema (Peru), EDOC (Ecuador), Cámara Lúcida (Ecuador), Colombian Film Festival of Buenos Aires
George
In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus following a sensationalized tour of “concerts” in Europe in 1962, and continuing in New York for most of the 1960s and ’70s. During this time Maciunas was converting the dying industrial buildings of Soho into a network of artists’ lofts, creating one of the first official real estate co-ops of artist-owned buildings. Maciunas’s life and legacy—as recounted by artists of his generation, including Yoko Ono and Jonas Mekas—ignited debates that remain pivotal to artists working today.
Directed by Jeffrey Perkins
Edited by Jessie Stead
Featuring Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Richard Foreman, John Cage, Nam Jun Paik, and others…
Coming soon to Kino Lorber!
Sound design, sound edit and 5.1 mix. Feature film.
World Premiere at the MoMA Documentary Fortnight 2018
PRESS
“Mr. Perkins livens up what could have been a dull talking-heads presentation with vortex-like editing, often dividing the screen into multiple panels and making inventive use of sound design.”
–The New York Times
“Perkins sees how Maciunas applied that taxonomic impulse to the unruly art world springing up around him. Yoko Ono and La Monte Young were hosting edgy concerts downtown; John Cage was freaking the music world out in classes at the New School; artist George Brecht was starting to use chance happenings and think of instructions as artworks.”
–The Hollywood Reporter
Braid
Directed by Mitzi Peirone for Wandering Bard
International theatrical release in 2019
Sound design in collaboration with Gigantic Post re-recording mixer Tom Paul. Feature film.
Two wanted women decide to rob their wealthy psychotic friend who lives in the fantasy world they created as children; to take the money they have to take part in a deadly, perverse game of make believe.
The first psycho thriller funded by cryptocurrency.
PRESS
“Bolstered by its kinetic cinematography and stellar production design, Mitzi Peirone’s surreal nightmare Braid is a crazy fever dream of deranged games and broken realities. A highlight of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Braid is an ambitious film that challenges its audience and leaves them with an experience that, for better or worse, they won’t forget anytime soon.”
–Film Pulse
62 Days
Directed by Rebecca Haimowitz for Bright Films
Available from Women Make Movies
Color grade
Sound design, sound edit, 5.1 mix. Feature film.
Who decides if a pregnant woman can be taken off of life support? The family? The hospital? The State? 62 Days is a documentary film about Marlise Muñoz, a brain-dead pregnant woman whose family was forced to keep her on life support against her wishes. This film shows the human story behind the headlines and shines a light on a controversial law.
62 Days premiered at the inaugural Meet the Press Film Festival with AFI. It has gone on to screen at numerous festivals across the country and abroad. The film had its national television broadcast in Spring 2018 on PBS/World Channel’s Reel South.
Winton/Dupont Films
Multiple Projects
Sound design & mix
Dwell Magazine
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Congressional Medal of Honor
DVD for NYSE awards dinner. Industrial short film.
Phillips Academy
Promotional DVD for recruiting. Industrial short film.
Symphony Space
Promotional DVD for fundraising. Industrial short film.
D.E. Deshaw & Co
Promotional DVD for recruiting. Industrial short film.
UJA Federation of New York
Promotional DVD for fundraising. Industrial short film.
IMS Health
Promotional/orientation DVD. Industrial short film
Hillman Curtis, Inc.
Multiple Projects
Sound design & mix
Soldiers
Nominated for a 2008 Webby award. Short film for web. Drama.
Roof
Included in Netdiver.net’s Best of 2007 list. Short film for web.
Embrace
Nominated for a 2008 Webby award. Short film for web. Drama.
Table
Youth Zones
The United Nations Population Fund and the Women’s Refugee Commission
Broadcast sound edit & mix
Screened at the UN General Assembly! A documentary film by Emmy award winning filmmaker Lisa Russell. YOUTH ZONES gives a voice to young people from Liberia, Colombia, Lebanon, Northern Uganda and New Orleans who share stories of struggle and perseverance in the face of conflicts and natural disasters. Documentary film.
