American Cinematographer Magazine has written an article about Toben Seymour‘s music video for The Willowz that I worked on in Los Angeles, as a guest director and media manager.
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Café philosophique
Paul O’Brien makes a reference in a footnote of this article to the Café Philosophique I used to run in Dublin, at the Cobblestone pub in Smithfield, in the early 2000s.
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Live Cinema Nights 2007
The 2007 edition of Live Cinema Nights took place in a nightclub (King King) on Hollywood Boulevard, and was organized as a special event within the Silverlake Film Festival.
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Creation of LEV STUDIO
While still a resident of Los Angeles (Silverlake to be precise), I registered in Geneva my interactive media design firm and production company / artist studio : LEV STUDIO.
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Talk at UdK
I gave a talk at the Universität der Kunste in Berlin, to the students of Joachim Sauter, in the Experimental Media Design program.
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Live Cinema Nights @ ISEA 2006
I organized a 3-night series of avant-garde live audiovisual performances, during ISEA 2006, called «Live Cinema Nights».
The performances took place in an old movie theatre, that had later been converted into a disco – which it is today (Club Glo), in downtown San Jose, in the heart of the Silicon Valley.
I also did a live performance called «Junkyard of Dreams» with the Robby Marshall jazz quartet, combining my own handheld footage of today’s Hollywood street life with excerpts of classical Hollywood movies.
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Dorkbot Socal 12
Performance for April’s fool on Human behaviour control, at the machine project gallery in Glendale, CA, for Dorkbot Socal 12, with the actor Tom Trudeau. Invited by Garnet Hertz.
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Interactive film workshop
I gave a 3-day workshop at the Canadian Film Center Media Lab in Toronto, where we read papers by Lev Manovich and analyzed works of Martin Le Chevallier, among others.
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Directors Lab 2006
I was extremely lucky to be accepted in the 2006 Directors Lab of Film Independent, in Los Angeles, with my project «Junkyard of Dreams».
We spent 8 weeks, with other fellow directors, to work on our feature film project, meeting mostly at the Sony studios in Culver City, or at the new offices of Film Independent on Wilshire Blvd. We had the mentorship of great professionals such as Rodrigo Prieto, Rodrigo Garcia, Shane Black…
I shot a trailer for my film, as part of this lab, now visible on Vimeo.
I was invited to be a jury member for the 2006 edition of the Slamdance Games Festival, in Park City, Utah. Slamdance runs parallel to Sundance and has a part dedicated to independent gaming.
I also spoke on a panel entitled « The Indie Scene: Games as art », where we discussed the growth of an art scene around gaming, and the narratology vs. ludology debate.