Category: Music Videos

Experimental/Dance/Music Festival – Today’s Testimonial

Olgierd Minkiewicz Great opportunity for every filmmaker to get an honest and undisturbed feedback about their projects. Fantastic venue (one in downtown Toronto), and Matthew Toffolo (the MC and moderator) was always on point. He truly cares about the filmmaker and understands how to talk to the audience. Overall a wonderful experience, and I had… Continue reading Experimental/Dance/Music Festival – Today’s Testimonial

Director Biography – Darren Durlach, David Larson (R.A.W. TUBA)

DARREN DURLACH – Darren is a film/TV director that co-founded Early Light Media, a production company based in Baltimore, to take his experience in documentary storytelling to organizations that hope to communicate more effectively and memorably with their audiences, as well as develop editorial documentary films that add value to the world. Over the past… Continue reading Director Biography – Darren Durlach, David Larson (R.A.W. TUBA)

Short Film: R.A.W. TUBA, 28min., USA, Music Documentary

This film is about a Baltimore child who experienced intermittent homelessness but went on to become a world-class symphony musician and professor. As a child, Richard Antoine White (R.A.W.) slept wherever he could, sometimes in abandoned rowhomes where he was chewed on by rats during his sleep. Now in his 40s, he still has the… Continue reading Short Film: R.A.W. TUBA, 28min., USA, Music Documentary

Short Film: OPEN THE WINDOW, 3min., Italy, Music Video

The room of a hospital, two women waiting. The invitation to the soul to let go, the invitation to react for who remains. A woman on a hospital bed, at the end of her life, is struggling to survive. Another woman is waiting during those final moments. In what is the close separation between the… Continue reading Short Film: OPEN THE WINDOW, 3min., Italy, Music Video

Short Film: THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE, 5min., Music Documentary

The Blessing and the Curse is the surprising and inspiring story of folk, Americana, and rockabilly musician Lance Canales, who rose from humble California Central Valley farmworker beginnings to prominence in the international music scene. Starting from his modest upbringing in the small campesino town of Orosi, California, we follow Canales on his journey from… Continue reading Short Film: THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE, 5min., Music Documentary

HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: Experimental & Music & Dance Festival – October 24, 2019

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: BEST FILM: SUCKR FOR LOVE BEST DANCE FILM: BRUTE BEST PERFORMANCES: LEADING ME STRAIGHT performers BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: ANIMAL BEST MUSIC: THE FIRE WITHIN Theme of night: Trapped and searching for something else. Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos: Eldur Á Himni – Fire in the Sky, 7min., Iceland, Experimental SUCKR FOR LOVE, 4min.,… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: Experimental & Music & Dance Festival – October 24, 2019

Director Biography – Burke Heffner (LEADING ME STRAIGHT)

Burke Heffner’s stills and motion work have appeared at The Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival, as well as in LA Times, Village Voice, Timeout New York, Playboy.com, and more. When he’s not creating visual poetry for TV, commercials, and music videos, he enjoys long walks in the woods of New York with his… Continue reading Director Biography – Burke Heffner (LEADING ME STRAIGHT)

Short Film: LEADING ME STRAIGHT, 8min., USA, Music Video

In a dystopian and colorless universe nobody dreams, and nobody wins. Emotions are useless, as are abundant thoughts. A hive with marked paths to serve an unnamed queen. He saw her. He touched her. She was the only one to break him from years of mechanic and automatic routine, if only for a flash. Where… Continue reading Short Film: LEADING ME STRAIGHT, 8min., USA, Music Video