All The Bulbous Accidents
animated poem, 2010

This is a collaboration with Sarah Pearlstein, in which I animated the imagery contained in her poem, All The Bulbous Accidents.  The music, Sensitive Data, was composed by Chris Korda.

This new version had its World Premiere at New Media Film Festival,  June 13th at the The Downtown Independent in Los Angeles.

The original All the Bulbous Accidents played on July 9th, 2009 at The Somerville Theatre as part of a week long film series sponsored by Reel Movement.

Read an interview on making this piece: Deciphering All the Bulbous Accidents on Beanywood

Watch the original version of All the Bulbous Accidents on IFC.com and tvguide.com as part of the IFC Media Lab Showcase

These are the first two parts in a series of four collaborative animations by Iridium Productions, Empire S.N.A.F.U. Restoration Project, and Setravision.   Parts 1 & 2 had their unofficial screen debut at the recent Boston Underground Film Festival.   All four animations were shown as part of the Empire S.N.A.F.U. Restoration Project installation at the recent Mobius ArtRages Benefit.   See all of the Symbiote’s antics at the upcoming Reelfest, running from May 28th to June 1st at The Somerville Theatre.

This is a re-creation of an animation originally created by the homeless visionary known as “S.N.A.F.U”.  Though S.N.A.F.U’s original films are missing, presumed destroyed, the articulated model of the Symbiote and many of the other oddities seen in the film, are the original relics assembled by S.N.A.F.U.  In the years since S.N.A.F.U’s death, The Empire S.N.A.F.U Restoration Project has labored in collaboration with like-minded individuals and organizations to bring S.N.A.F.U.’s legacy to the public.

This animated production is a joint venture with Iridium Productions and Setravision.

These Symbiote animations were staged, shot, and edited at the Iridium Productions studio.  Several objects and the projected artworks were employed from Juliet Schneider’s collection.

Setravision was formed in 1999 by  multimedia artist, designer and instructor Garabed Setrakian. In addition to his integral role as animator, technical consultant & post-production wizard,  Garabed made use of his Arabic influenced calligraphy to create the Symbiote title sigil.

Music on Parts 3 & 4 is by Birdorgan.

Artist:  Ad Frank & The Fast Easy Women
Director: Theodore Cormey
Production Design:  Juliet Schneider

Autumn Spills
music video, 2009
Artist: Sarah Rabdau & Self Employed Assassins
Director: Theodore Cormey
Production Design: Juliet Schneider

This is the latest demo for the upcoming movie, Don’t Eat My Face (current working title)

Walden
performance video, 2010

Walden Pond State Reservation, Concord, MA

Director: Juliet Schneider
Choreographer/Dancer: Dorian Rose
Music:  Brian King
Assistant Editor:  Erin Gallagher

You can also watch Walden on IMDb, and YouTube

Walden was first conceived in 2002 and costumed in 2003.  It was shot at Walden Pond mostly during the summers of 2004 and 2005.

Here are a few of the original storyboards:

Here’s a photo of Dorian wearing the newly made costume in 2003:

Sacrilege
music video, 2007
Artist:  Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys
Director: Theodore Cormey
Art Department: Empire Snafu, Juliet Schneider

The picture above shows the dolls I made of Walter and Edrie for the music video.

Visit the Army of Toys Facebook page

http://www.myspace.com/armyoftoys

director:  Juliet Schneider
music:  Charles Segal
title drawing: David Rosen
storyboard consultants:  Garabed Setrakian, David Rosen
animation assistants:  Chyle Crossley, Dorian Rose, David Rodal, David Rosen, Garabed Setrakian, Terra Friedrichs
co-editor: Garabed Setrakian

The story for Ova comes from a childhood experience of mine, attempting to incubate a wild bird egg.  Like a lot of my work, Ova evolved over a few years, enduring three studio moves and several intervening projects.  I started making sketches, notes and shadowbox assemblages relating to eggs around 1995.  I started building the set in summer of 2000, but the actual production took place mostly 2005-2007.  Ova had its world premiere at the 2008 Woods Hole Film Festival, and screened at the 2008 Northampton Film Festival.  Ova also screened at The Brattle Theatre on May 3rd, 2009 as part of the annual Mayfair Film Program, and at The Coolidge Corner Theatre from May 15th through June 30th, 2009 as part of a new program called Shorts R Us.  On July 9th and 12th, 2009, Ova screened at The Somerville Theatre as part of Reel Movement, and won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short.

Visit Ova’s IMDb page

Read a recent interview on Beanywood.

Title drawing by David Rosen

Below is a sampling of production stills, showing the set in various stages:

Water & Wood
music video, 2007
Artist: Annette Farrington
Director: Theodore Cormey
Set Design:  Debra Reich
Prop & Costume Design: Juliet Schneider

Karen Langlie & Bradley Royds

Annette Farrington wearing wings

Grandmother character & Water backdrop

Daughter character & Wood backdrop

Pinecone box (one of six box inserts)

Treasure box

Jack O’Lantern
music video, 2006
artist:  What Time is it Mr. Fox?
director:  Terra Friedrichs
set design:  Juliet Schneider
Charlie:  Naomi Bennett
Jack: Jodi Sandler and Brent Walton

Visit:  What Time is it Mr. Fox?  on MySpace

on set production still