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Cinematography
COLAB: Revitalizing Jefferson Row
COLAB is the new design laboratory at Syracuse University. During the Fall of 2008, the lab held an intensive 3-day event that gathered undergraduate and graduate students from multiple disciples - design and non-design, to extensively conceptualize new methods of revitalizing the Syracuse urban landscape. This is a short snippet of a collection of interviews [...]
Oakland Recreation Hall
Video, 7 min
Oakland Recreation Hall is a short documentary highlighting the creative process of furniture maker and sculptor, Tucker Houlihan. Through recounting the history of the place, the person, and the architecture, the documentary brings about a personal look at Houlihan as an individual intimately represented by the work he produces, as well as [...]
COLAB, “Fire”
Part of the series of shorts made to advertise the branding of COLAB, a design laboratory at Syracuse University.
COLAB, “Meat”
One of several (and more to come) shorts for the branding of COLAB, the new design laboratory at Syracuse University.
Lloyd Neck
16min, 16mm, color
Written & Directed by Benedict Campbell
Cinematography by Serena Kuo
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS FOR 2008
Sundance Film Festival
Sarasota Film Festival
Crossroads Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
Ivy Film Festival
Hollyshorts Film Festival
Palm Springs Short Film Festival
Rhode Island International Film Festival
NewFest, New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Frameline32, San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Outfest, The Los Angeles Gay [...]
The Bicycle Camera
Double-8mm film, 14 min
April 2007 - Oct 2007
To examine the communicative nature and intricate balance between realistic portrayal and emotive interpretation of action in space, my work, The Bicycle Camera, borrows the spectator’s preexisting visual impression of the road as viewed from a moving bicycle as a basis for contrast to a manipulated film that [...]
Body Landscapes
HD Video, 12 min
April 2007
Body Landscapes is a satirical abstract narrative film. The prevailing theme – hair as landscapes, ties twelve segments of short films together to form a continuous emotional arc, a journey through landscapes. Using extreme close-up photography of various bodies of hair, dramatic lighting, and special effects that simulate natural phenomena, the [...]
Transpositions
HD Video, 45 min
April 2008
Transpositions is a one-channel video that presents the journey of four people walking through an open field. Each walk is filmed in one continuous hand-held shot to reinforce its spatial and temporal continuity. Instead of implementing a script, each person is given three simple directions that vaguely structure the performance:
1. Your [...]
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Standard Definition Digital Video, Loop
November 2007
Moving along with the history of space, cinema defines itself as anarchitectural practice. It is an art form of the street, an agent in the building of city views. The landscape of the city ends up interacting closely with filmic representations, and to this extent, the streetscape is as much [...]