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18. Letting Go of Leo

by Rylee Jean Ebsen

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17. Resolution of Two

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16. Venusians Trailer

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15. The Great Bambi Jones

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14. आरती (Aarti)

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13. TEASER 1

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12. TEASER 2

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11. WHITE ARROWS MUSIC VIDEO …

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10. Baby

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9. Wrist Bangers

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8. Beastly

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7. The Young, The Dead, & The Otherwise

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6. Half N' Half

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5. Leonard & Lola

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4. Ricardo McCloud: A DOCUMENTARY

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3. Love Hurts

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2. Two Headed Boy

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1. Lunch Break

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Official Selection Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema 2012
Winner for Best Screenplay at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema
Winner of the Award of Merit at the Indie Fest 2011
NYU Best Drama Winner at Campus Movie Festival 2011
Best Picture Nominee at Campus Movie Festival Internationals 2011

Because it's HD-- let it load all the way and watch it full screen!

Written, Directed, & Edited By Rylee Jean
Shot on the Arri Alexa
Edited in FCP
Music by Dylan Bostick & Gaurds

Special thanks to the cast and crew for all their hard work and support! Thank you to John at the Leonardo Motel for your patience and generosity.

guards.bandcamp.com/

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Jana Gorkusenko
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Corey
18 hours ago
angelo paoletti
22 hours ago
Nushan Roshani
2 days ago
Gamongorn Rak-Art
3 days ago
Matt Trivett
1 week ago
Ashok kumar
2 weeks ago
Stathis Mourdoukoutas A.K.A RED
2 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
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1 month ago

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Don Hendricks 5 months ago

Kudos! Great job everyone!!
Tiojai 5 months ago

Wow! Loved the film, the actors, the dialogue,... Great job!!!
Scott Foley 5 months ago

I really enjoyed the soft coloring on this piece. Well done, Rylee.
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

thanks fellas!
Blake Whitman 5 months ago

Good little story and well shot.

I think we can all relate. Not me, of course, but probably most other people.
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

Thanks Blake! I really enjoyed "Far From Now," awesome shots of my favorite 80's looking subways, those orange seats on the BDF or 123. Great.
Mike Kobal 5 months ago

amazing job, congrats!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

Thanks Mike! Great Irene coverage!
Weldon Byrns 5 months ago

I liked it. The actors made it good.
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

Thanks Weldon, I was blessed to find them and over the moon to work with them.
donna smith 5 months ago

Loved it, awesome job by everyone!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

Thanks Donna! That's my mama's name too :)
Jana Spinola 5 months ago

THANK GOD moviemakers got salvation! (and a bit of sensitive). Well... I`m brazilian and not so in shortcuts, but love your 'Resolution for two'
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

Thank's Jana! Power to my fellow lady in film ;)
Ruben Timmerman 5 months ago

...I may be mistaken but I thought there was some discontinuity at 2:34 and other sections that threw off the way the conversation flowed.

Don't get me wrong I thought the film as a whole was fantastic! but we are also here to suggest and constructively criticize, correct? This may have very well been intended though and I misunderstood. let me know!

Great work either way! :)
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

Ruben! You are correct my friend. I am taking a class this semester with Sam Pollard (main editor for Spike Lee "25th Hour" "Four Little Girls" etc.), and he says "Performance ALWAYS trumps continuity. Don't let bad continuity get in the way of a good performance." So I followed his advice and I'm glad I did :)
Matthew Brown (Matty Brown) 5 months ago

:')
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

=)
Robert Hughes 5 months ago

Very nice work, it fits together well. Congratulations on your success.
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

Thanks Robert!
LANE WATKINS 5 months ago

Good....!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

Thanks Lane! I also appreciate you supporting "Letting Go Of Leo" and putting it in "thing to think about"
ROBERT JAMES ELLIOTT 5 months ago

like it heaps....congrats to all...
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

Thanks Rob!
ROBERT JAMES ELLIOTT 3 months ago

come across this piece again, extremely nice and well done rylee....my "monk on a mission", piece is not in the same league....still learning day by day...:-)
Renato Giusti 5 months ago

Bom demais.
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

I JUST talked to an artist yesterday who spoke Portuguese and he taught me how to say, obrigado! :)
joão ciccone 5 months ago

lovely!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

Thanks João, your animations are sick! I like the beast in the chair
Daniel CS 5 months ago

Beautiful truth ... it's horrible not knowing what to do ... because love does not know the word No
Rylee Jean Ebsen 5 months ago

Thanks Daniel, well said.
Eugene Yu 4 months ago

Props...straight up
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Thanks Eugene, your fire spinning video is really cool. I love using the city as a backdrop too.
John Coyne 4 months ago

brilliant work
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Thanks John! You create nice things with those beats.
Paper Plane Pictures 4 months ago

I love it when indie films like this one are dipped in Hollywood. The characters, titles, credits, and the song at the end. Great work.
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Thanks Paper Plane! The song is called "Resolution of One" by a great NYC based band called Gaurds. They were nice enough to let me use it in the film, I'm all about good songs over credits. Check them out!
guards.bandcamp.com/
Roberto Castillo 4 months ago

very unique---Life`
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Thanks Roberto!
FOURREEL.tv 4 months ago

Very sweet Rylee. Love the setting, especially the shot at 4:36.
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Thanks FOURREEL, the neon motel sign offered great natural light and the alexa captured the soft red tones nicely.
James Sielaff 4 months ago

somewhere in-between comforting and disturbing.
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Exactly! :)
James Sielaff 4 months ago

perfect!
takeshi morisato 4 months ago

After re-lighting the cigarette, she delivers her lines so well and he is also the right actor for the role. It does begin with a disturbing feeling but ends with a catharsis. It is just as every good art should be! I am looking forward to seeing next work!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

So nice of you to say Takeshi, we appreciate the review!
aymann ismail 4 months ago

Saw this in LA for CMF, this film definitely stuck out to me as the best. Loved catching it on the Vimeo HD Channel, can't wait to see what you come out with next!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Thanks Aymann! I sadly couldn't make it to CMF this year because I was in Prague so I'm really happy to hear from someone who went. You have a nice multifaceted reel, I got mad love for editors and graphic folk cuz my dad is a post man!
Firuze Karaoglu 4 months ago

bravo!!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Thanks Firuze. I like your environmental PSA! I agree, there is no planet B. I recently saw Gasland which is scary as hell!
Chase Schiefer 4 months ago

Was this shot in Leonardo, NJ?? That looks awfully similar to Rt. 36. And I could sear that was a Middletown Police car that passed during the credits. This is right down the street from me!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Yes it was! What a crazy coincidence. They were really nice and accommodating, it's such a beautiful traditional vintage motel.
Chase Schiefer 4 months ago

Incredible! Great job! Great acting, great story!
ShortyGirl Attak 4 months ago

I loved the video is fantastic costumes dialogue is wonderful really great shots I love your work!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Thanks Monse!
Karen Bueno 4 months ago

Is great, love the music.
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Thanks Karen! My good friend Dylan Bostick made a beautiful score and the catchy Gaurds song rocks. Check them out guards.bandcamp.com/
Karen Bueno 4 months ago

I already bought their album, they have a new fan!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

haha awesome! x
Bellographix 4 months ago

Wow, you use Alexas at school? This is remarkable, great story telling and cinematography!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 4 months ago

Thanks Bellographix! This was actually made outside of school with the support of my amazing team and the genius of my producers and cinematographer. I wish we had access to Alexas at NYU!

I like your promos, you are great with after effects. Good luck with saving up for that red, good idea!
Bellographix 4 months ago

Thanks Rylee! I"ll do my best for the RED, if not, maybe the new Canons!
Ton 4 months ago

Everything about this was awesome: the imagery, the story, the dialouge, the music. Great job. I took Art History with Hunter Baker.
Rylee Jean Ebsen 3 months ago

Thanks Ton! Flattered to have such a lovely well rounded compliment. Hunter Baker is da man.
AnnaPollack 3 months ago

I'm currently in high school, an arts one which I attend for film. I'm actually in film class right now. I decided to search NYU on vimeo. Really happy I did. Good Job!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 3 months ago

Thanks Anna, it's awesome that your high school offers a film class. The foreign film class I took my Junior year in High School changed my life--an eye opening introduction to polanski, vertov, godard, bazin, truffaut, eisenstein, & forman. Have fun!
AnnaPollack 2 months ago

No problem sorry it took so long to respond, I've began watching some of those directors, they're great!
Miguel Duarte 3 months ago

great job! loved it :D
Rylee Jean Ebsen 3 months ago

Thanks Miguel! Pájaro Azul is beautiful.
Luke Prior 3 months ago

loved it!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 3 months ago

Thanks Luke!
rachel batashvili 3 months ago

love the shot at 00:29 and in the tub.

you were allowed to shoot on the arri alexa for the campus movie festival? I was under the impression that everyone has to shoot with the camera that they provide you with.
Rylee Jean Ebsen 3 months ago

Thanks Rachel! The bathtub shot was hard, had the alexa at an almost 90 degree angle above a tub of water ooph! Thank God for my extra careful and super ballsy crew.

You can shoot on any camera you want, they do give you a package (computer, tripod, and camera) which gives everyone a chance--I think the point is so that people can't blame their lack of equipment for not participating. But you can shoot on whatever you want and edit on whatever you want. It just starts everyone out right, it's a cool idea.
htat htut 3 months ago

Great story! So lucky to be able to shoot on Alexa. Wondering what kind of lenses you guys used...
Rylee Jean Ebsen 2 months ago

Thanks Htat! We shot on the cooke S4/i lenses.
Carlo Perassi 3 months ago

I love this short. After having watched it many times, I noticed that she "changes" the hand she uses to smoke between the end of the shot at 2.28 (left h) and the beginning of the shot at 2.29 (right h) then left again... but, as I previously wrote to you, it's on my favourite "love and the like" vimeo album. :)
Rylee Jean Ebsen 2 months ago

see comment to Ruben Timmerman above re: continuity
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Thanks for the add Carlo!
David Parkinson 2 months ago

so so good loved it. nice slow shots. I like that style :)
Rylee Jean Ebsen 2 months ago

Thanks David, I appreciate it!
"The Dress" is a beautiful activity piece that I enjoyed watching very much, so nice to see the final product! Also liked your trippy "Speck of Dust" video, nice effects!
illdog 2 months ago

great stuff!!!!
the sLOG footage from the ALEXA looks like it hasnt been color-graded at all!! can you please tell me if thats the case?
thanks!!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 2 months ago

thanks illdog, your stuff is super ill. I like your style.
You are correct, it was a choice I made and I stand by it, some will beg to differ but because of the mysterious time period of the short (mix of the 60's and 90's), I love the sLog look.
illdog 2 months ago

thanks... vimeo is just for tests and few other stuff for me, advertisment world doesnt really let me share my stuff ...
it looks good ungraded! it s been my personal quest latelly to do as much as possible in-camera and let go of heavy color grading so i totally understand!!
i watched the short again and since im a photo whore i need to make a little critisism on the fact that in some moments it looks like the codec has crushed!! guess its not a problem of the original footage since i cant really think how little light u gotta have for the alexa to freak out like that, guess it s an encoding thing...
i love the allaround feel of the short! im gonna go see the rest of your stuff now!! :)
Christian Schneider 2 months ago

I love when a short film is not that disturbing weird must-be-art but a lovely story with a motivating end. Keep that!
Rylee Jean Ebsen 1 month ago

Thanks Christian! If it affects people in any way, then I am happy. Keep up your good work!