My New Film
Directed by Abel Ferrara for Wild Bunch
IFC Films
Available on Showtime and Itunes
Sound design, sound edit, 5.1 mix. Feature film.
Featured in the Venice International Film Festival by the acclaimed director of Bad Lieutenant and King of New York Abel Ferrara. Starring Academy Award nominated actor Willem Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh, Paz de la Huerta and Natasha Lyonne.
“The sound is lush and, considering the intimacy of the production, nearly operatic at times. This is one small independent production that should be played loud. “
–Slant Magazine
“his off-centered compositions and heightened sound design feels totally modern. With 4:44, Ferarra privileges the sensual flow of sound and image, establishing a meditative tone that departs from the linear structure of traditional film narrative.”
-Denver Public
James Franco
SoapMOCA
LA MOCA
45-hour ambient sound composition that was played through speakers on the side of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art for 3 weeks for the general public. The work was commissioned by James Franco to support a video composition that he created for an exhibition of his character, the visual artist “Franco,” in the actor’s final appearance on the soap opera General Hospital. James shot and edited to a split screen 45 hours of his rehearsal schedule as a performance work to create the video.
Neil Benezra
Köln Kaddish
Prenning, Austria
Landhaus Feuerloscher
http://www.prenningergespraeche.at/Archiv.html
5.1 channel audio installation with description/proposal for the city of Cologne
The piece proposes to coordinate Cologne’s church bells to perform the Jewish prayer for the dead and for peace, the Kaddish. While church bells are used to relay messages of both religious and political importance in a city, they also tend to disappear into the background of the lives of its inhabitants, becoming to some extent insignificant. By manipulating sounds and imbuing them with or highlighting their inherent cultural significance, the work aims to arouse an awareness of the environment and its history in a manner that is perhaps more often attained through visual means.