Mise en Scene

What exactly is mise en scene? Is it singular pieces of a whole? Or is it the whole collective piece? Or is it both? These are a couple of the questions pertaining to the Film Theory term Mise En Scene I find to be very interesting. This film term is something quite extraordinary because it can easily transcend into philosophies about life and yet so much has been written about the world of the cinema imitating life as well as life imitating the cinema. This is a short film I made attempting to explore, perhaps with a bit of humor, the term Mise En Scene. For this film, everything was hand made and hand processed, so that the maker is in complete charge allowing myself to become the whole mise en scene. And yet what it becomes, that which the maker has made, is it something as very simple as his work, or does the film unfurl into a life all unto itself, thus seeking it's own mise en scene and what is this really made up of? Did the maker simply make a reflection of himself in the form of film? What really does make up a film? What really does make up a life?

Mise En Scene from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

Feeling a bit of an existential crisis

Made in a single sitting, out of a fit of needing to do something, but not sure how or what or where to begin.

Diatribe from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

The land of the fairies

in the land of the fairies from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

Bad dreams

Film by Ian Soroka. This film has some very nice in-camera animation and what I'm assuming to be some projection work over the bed.

Night Terrors and Waking Dreams from mutuallymade on Vimeo.

Contemplating

Hmmmmmm......

Contemplation from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

A golden Time

A break in the tour at the end of the trip. My it was a mighty good time.

Tremelo Cabin from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

DON"T TOUCH!

Matte with found footage and some hand painted film, drums by jeffrey von ragan.

Touchez-Pas! from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

Why?!

please just leave the little guy alone.

Why are They always Staring at Me? from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

Stay wiz it!

Film shot on one continuous 400ft roll of hi-con film. Camera went one direction while sound went in opposite direction, what remains is Stay Wiz Me.

stay wiz me from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

Strange things happen at night

exquisite corpse film with outdated stock.

night shots from a space ship from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

Playing the Soil

A mesmerizing piece using good old fashioned machinery and instrumentation to achieve this mind blowing sound.

Harvest by Alunda Kyrkokör (2009) from Olle Corneer on Vimeo.

The math does equate to me

1 + 1 > 2 from Dustin Zemel on Vimeo.

Sexy Noir

An animated Film Noir revolving a Private Dick searching for a twit's missing wife Kitty. What he finds however may impede his own judgements or even his life! Film by Ben Popp and Kenny Reed.

Sexy Noir from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

Going back in time

I poked a hole in my memory is a film comprised of older films all flurrying around in space, almost like the memories of making them fluttering around in the recesses of my brain.

I poked a hole from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

an angular autumn tree

An attempt to see what an installation may look like turned into a piece itself. voila!

Square Autumn Tree from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

Troll Piece

The Legend of Toby Tre Foot is as follows, He lives in a barn and likes to kick people, but he couldn't kick them hard enough, so he cut off his leg and replaced it with a stump so that he could kick people harder. This was a film made for an installation based around a singular piece of music that all of the pieces in the gallery would either link up to at somepoint or remain a distant relative of.

Troll Piece from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

BEWARE OF ZOMBIE MAN!

Clouds

shot on Hi-Con 16mm film and hand processed.

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With Autumn comes snow

Behold..... BUNNYGOAT!!!!

For Halloween

bunnygoat from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

PAY ATTENTION!!

Exquisite Corpse film made by Ben Popp and Kenny Reed, music by Kenny Reed

PLAY animation

This is the result of an animation stand set up for all to use for a couple of hours during the recent installation show PLAY which took place at Disjecta in Portland OR. It's a bit fast because it was not specified how 24 frames per second works, but it still looks pretty cool!

Optical Print

I saw two lovers get gunned down, so i went ahead and pushed them in the ocean, where they would live together for ever more.

Optical Print from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

In Hoogie Boogie Land there is no war

This is exactly what I imagine Kenneth Higney sounding like at a live concert. Look him up by the way...

The Downfall of Social Normality

Kenneth Reed's film "Atomic Fury" flows in the manner of which a song goes. The rhythms cascade, while images bordering memory, future, narrative, passion, darkness, and a cynical edge one can only attribute to as a fine sense of chaotic debauchery, pulse through one's own stream of consciousness. I think it is a fine movie he has made.

Atomic Fury from K. Greed on Vimeo.

STEVE

Shape Test

mattes and noise!

Firebird Skip Loop

Painted film loop, looping over and over again as Stravinsky's Petrushka skips along.

Firebird Loop Skip from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

We'll meet again

This little ditty was part of the Sailors on Belmont Movie, the finale if you will, of a 5 part film made up of other films.

Omar and Molly from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

sometimes pictures speak louder than movies

Witness the Imagination of Dan Groth!
http://www.warmgrimace.blogspot.com/

Remember Summer?

This was made for a screening of films based upon the sun that was supposed to happen in San Francisco last year, but got cancelled at the last minute.

LA SOLEIL! from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

it's a blue blue tuesday, but what a beautiful day

Jeffery Von Ragan's film "Down Canvas Cloud" drizzles a wonder of blues down upon san francisco life.

Down, Canvas Cloud from Jeffrey Von Ragan on Vimeo.

Creepy escapades

Walking around late at night i'll often think of this film. There's so much out there and so many people and we don't have eyes in the backs of our heads or on the sides, what are we missing, and what's really going on between the cracks of reality?

The People Outside from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

Soooo...a BW guy looks into a hole, what does he see?

A B&W Guy looks into a hole from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

Multiple layers of generational speak

Richard Touhy's film "Cocky-Two" begins somewhat normal, but quickly folds into itself over and then over and then over and over again creating a kaleidoscoptic vision of bird and mirrors, but what i find truly amazing is the unique languages created by the bird layered over and over itself.

Cocky-Two from richard tuohy on Vimeo.

Come hang with Johnny Public

Jon Moritsugu's film "mommy mommy where's my brain?" compiles together distraught disturbances, antagonized yearnings, and some fine editing indeed.

http://www.ubu.com/film/moritsugu.html

Beware the Witch

Nice exquisite corpse film in vein of a scavenger hunt.

Beware the Witch from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

Happy Autum

QUE VIVA NUEVCA MEJICO!! AYYYYYYYY YI YI YI YI YI YI YI YIIIIIIIIII!!!!
QUE VIVA FIESTA!!

Le Tigre en La Cage

A poor ol' Tiger all bored in Prison for mauling the Neighbor kid just wants some love.

Le Tigre en La Cage from Sailors on Belmont on Vimeo.

Paper Landscape at Les Voutes Paris

I stumbled across this while looking at Bruce McClure stuff. I really like this a lot though. The interaction between filmmaker then and now separated only by the projection of the past is pretty poetic.

Prepare a Rite

Reading the paper is bad for me.

Island Song (1976)

Charlemagne Palestine (b. 1947)
This is a work of art. It reminds me as well of Jon Jost's film "Bell Diamond". That empty odd landscape of rocks and shacks, in a place you know, but don't know. And of course the beautiful sounds, the wonderful noise, the masterful tones the rhythms. What an odd piece of music and yet so wonderfully true.

http://www.ubu.com/film/palestine.html

Dance of the Deviant

This was my first attempt at a "narrative" cartoon made with this style, hi-contrast 16mm film hand processed. It all began with this character I made and I simply wanted to make him dance!

Dance of the Deviant from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

Via Chicago

This is an introduction I made for a film screening this past June

via chicago show intro from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

No Vacancy!

This was made for a friend's Urban Planning graduate thesis project entitled "No Vacancy!". The idea of the project is to place artists into vacant spaces while they are waiting to be rented, fill in the voids with color and ideas.

NO VACANCY!! from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

Health Care Para Toda!

I needed to say something about health care and this was my only voice I could think of to use. I made this in an hour.

Health Care Para Toda! from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.