Artist bio:
David Bruckner is an Atlanta-based Independent Filmmaker focusing on dark genre satire. He's best known for writing and directing the first Transmission of “The Signal,” a collaborative sci fi/horror tale that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures in 2008. Originally produced for under 50,000 dollars, the film was nominated for the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for achievements in Independent Film under 500,000 dollars. David developed his collaborative DIY approach as a co-founder of the “Dailies Project,” an experimental filmmaking workshop hosted by local filmmakers. He's created many notable indie shorts, including former AFF entries “Dave VS Jeremiah,” and Harold Pinter inspired "Talk Show." He was also awarded the Goethe Institute's Artist Exchange for co-directing, alongside Tim Habeger, an experimental film/theater adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s “The Robbers.”

About the work
Title: "The Fear" By Lovett
Art form: Film / Video, Sound
Medium: Music video

Description of work: “Kaleidoscopic fever dream of society!” I yelled over coffee to my long time friend and collaborator Ben Lovett. We were designing a striking visual to accompany his darkly triumphant anthem, “The Fear,” and had settled on “commonality of life by way of massive human collage at night.” No problem. Except in trying to find the perfect balance between good and bad, epic and mundane, we'd somehow sabotaged the whole notion with our showmanship. As if our own awareness of what would be cool contrived the entire image. We needed something bigger than us. Something as obtuse and accidental as the human thing itself. We decided to open it up to other ideas and let the group decide. Calling upon our fellow Atlanta natives to design their own vignettes with costumes and show up when the camera was rolling, we managed to amass over 400 volunteer collaborators over the course of three shoots. - David Bruckner