9/22/2009


In the news;

Flash - Just recently found out my little 16mm film short One Pill came in second at the Columbus International Film and Video Awards in it's division, experimental films.   I am told there will eventually be more information on the web site for the Chris Awards at http://www.chrisawards.org.  1st place went to a friend of mine also from Columbus, Ohio so maybe film as an art form is coming back around and resting comfortably in the Midwest?  I believe Second Place gets a Bronze Plaque.  If so I will post images of it here after the ceremony on Nov 14th, 2009.

Additional news, Time Warner Cable has chosen 2 of my 16mm film shorts, One Pill and Chemical as 2 of the 15 shorts selected for their new Viewers Choice channel featuring filmmakers.  This starts on the Time Warner Viewers Choice channels I believe on all systems on Sept 25th, 2009.  A 3rd short I shot for a friend made the cut also.  Look for Bus Stop as well.  that means I was involved in 3 of the 15 shorts chosen to be shown on Time Warner.  Details when I know more about where to send folks.

Even more news; my 16mm film short film One Pill is now listed among the likes of Maya Deren and Guy Maddin on the web site 366 Weird Movies in the Saturday Shorts section.  I thank the folks there for making me a welcome part of their site.  You can see One Pill there and read some of the nice comments by Cameron Jorgensen.  I am honored.

As always I thank my cast and crew for playing along with me.  I hope these minor joys help propel us all to where we want to be in film.

I have added all my films and videos here to have a one stop location to review everything I have done since my involvement in short films and videos.  Videos and films of note would be One Pill, a 16mm film short asking the basic question:

If One Pill could repair a broken memory...
No matter how tragic and painful...
Would you take it?

and Chemical, a recent 16mm short film shot in Columbus, Ohio with several local actors and a filmmaker friend of mine Matt Meindl with Natalie Lloyd, Mary Vade Bon Coeur, Bill Brunk and Elizabeth Hansen.  It's semi-silent.

Ghosts I:I (16mm film) and Friends (8mm, 16mm film) were both created using film formats for the NIN (Trent Reznor) online collection of filmmaker pieces to accompany his double CD release of the Ghosts series.  Music donated by NIN for these pieces.

Numbers, shot on 8mm and Super 8 film was recently show at the Blue-November Microfilm Festival in Seattle, Washington and uses, with permission, music from Moby.

Elevator was shot in 24p HDV video and contains two pieces of music by Moby, used by permission.

I am a published short screenplay writer now.  See the Parker issue of Paradigm magazine here (PDF file):
http://www.paradigmjournal.com/parkerissue.pdf - see page 99 of the downloadable PDF version for "Scrubbing".

My Quiet Day (cell phone video), Memories of a Dream (MiniDV) and My Angels (8mm film) were shown in a gallery exhibition in Columbus, Ohio put on by the Fuse Factory.

Frame 37 (DVCam) was shown at a small festival in Strasbourg, France a while back, and locally at the Look at my Shorts III.

Secrets (DVCam) won the DVChallenge #2 online short video contest and played on the big screen at Look at my Shorts III..

Bent Rays saw lots of airtime play on MTV Italy's online channel.

The Lottery will be Televised (DVCam) and Track 11 (24p HDV), and most all of the others saw big screen time at the Cow Town Screenings in Columbus, Ohio..

I have also had screenings in Strasbourg France, Seattle Washington and locally on big screens and had a few pieces included on the online channel for MTV Italy (Qoob.tv)

I am officially available to help other companies involved in film and video by adding my style and equipment offerings in the areas of 8mm, Super 8, 16mm and DVCam equipment to your stack of skills and options.  I am particularly interested in becoming involved with the more exclusive wedding video companies in the area and offer the option of inexpensively adding the ability to shoot on actual film based mediums to obtain a true retro look that is becoming so popular at the upper tier of the wedding and other emotionaly impact generating video endevors.  Film does not mean scratchy grainy shaky looking.  With the advent of increasingly popular and inexpensive HD gear, transfers of all film formats to HD is becoming very very cost effective.  Adding film footage to HD footage can be a beautiful and seemless workflow option.  Consider it and see my additional mini site here: http://sites.google.com/site/seanmchenryfilm/

Please check out my pages of film and video projects.  If you find anything interesting, drop me a note.  If you wish, please visit me at the following web addresses:

http://www.myspace.com/DeepBlueEdit_Film
http://deepblueeditor.deviantart.com
http://en.qoob.tv/users/user_page.asp?id=32171

Sean McHenry
Sean(at)DeepBlueEdit.com