EAT SKULL!!

Music Video for the song "Don't Leave me on the Speaeker" by the band Eat Skull.
A lot of animation, direct animation, hand processing and love went into this puppy.

Tonight's Main event!

Bif Vs Bam from Benjamin Popp on Vimeo.

A quick question

Ideas are Dangerous

Loop film, Open for Debate

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.

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.

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.

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.

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