c. 1957 - 1959
Jeffrey Echols found himself digging too deep.
Music by Dirty Beaches : ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI
From the album "Horror" Fixture Records, 2008
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Director, Cinematographer, Editor: TYLER T WILLIAMS
Jeffrey Echols: DAVID WOOD, Actor
Jeffrey Echols: GABRIEL RUDOW,Voice
V.O. recording by DAVID WOOD
Shot on Canon 5DMKII & 7D
Canon glass (f2.8 20mm, f1.8 85mm)
Nikon glass (f1.8 50mm)
Thanks to everyone and their support, especially Alex Zhang Hungtai for creating such wonderful music and for his latest LP, Badlands, which made these visuals come to life.
"The boy is ill, catatonic. His mother, concerned, calls the doctor. The doctor has ein plan."
My final project at CalArts. Hand drawn cut-outs with pastel chalks, animated by hand and in After Effects.
Moritz Rechenberg as The Doctor
Lisa Louttit as The Mother
Anton Goldman as The Boy
Written animated and directed by Einar Baldvin
Reduction Is an animated film in which psychological Processes in a man’s subconscious, such as impulses to suppress anxiety producing thoughts, exist as ameba like organisms in the chaotic ocean of his mind. Thoughts join and new thoughts are born and attempt to take root in the man’s subconscious. When a mutated thought threatens to destabilize the man’s consciousness he must learn how to destroy thoughts by reducing them into a standard form. When he gains the power to reduce thoughts, reduction becomes compulsion, and the world is reduced.
Voltaire started making stop-motion films on Super 8 at the age of ten. At seventeen, he got his first job animating TV commercials at New York City's Broadcast Arts where Pee Wee's Playhouse was made. Soon after, he directed and animated some of the classic, award winning station IDs for MTV and the Sy Fy Channel (Then "The Sci Fi Channel").
The following years found Voltaire moving into comic books and music. His first comic book series, "Chi-chian" was recently optioned by Framelight Pictures to be developed into a live action feature film. He has also enjoyed success as a musician and recording artist. He has an international fan base. Many know him for his songs for the Cartoon Network show, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
Most recently, Voltaire has returned to filmmaking "for the love of it." He is working on a series of shorts based on his early MTV work. Each film is about one minute long, animated in stop-motion animation, narrated by a singer and weird as hell. The…
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