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

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:

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: