Graduated the University of Washington in painting/lithography in 1972. Before graduation, I became interested in filmmaking. I began, post-graduation in Super 8/double 8. Overwhelmed by the cost of making film. I had to give it up in 1973.
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In 2018, I bought a Casio EXF1 Excilim Pro camera with 1200fps capability, to continue where I left off in 1973. Digital formats freed me from the high-cost of filming and editing celluloid mediums. Given the high costs to make film, and the limitations of my equipment, I found on You-Tube others could do it better than I. Lacking any confederates or association in the film genre, I use "found" clips from other's works to create my own montage sequences. My greatest influences are Eisenstein, Ozu, and Vermeer. I prefer the stationary camera of Ozu, but using found-footage I cannot always achieve that. I consciously exclude double-exposures, narrative-centered montage (linear montage), musical tracks, and the use of staccato cutting which now, is so often the vogue. I have no interest in making narrative film. I move to wherever a "found" film clip takes me in a sequence. Hopefully, the outcome will be a surprise to even me.
I attempt to unite disparate spaces, events, and objects into a cohesive whole, in which, no one object has any greater precedence as any other in the sequence. I am partial to dwelling-within-the-scene (i.e. Ozu) until an action is completed. Simple physical actions, that are part of everyday life (i.e. looking up, looking down, moving left and right, turning, sitting, rising actions) which themselves would be considered mundane and unimportant by themselves, are used as transitional elements of montage. The commonplace is an event, large and small. The ordinary can be seen as extraordinary, as we travel an unfettered path through a non-contiguous physical space. Things happen, and we move on.
The sentient viewer is not asked to suspend his disbelief in order to identify with a hero or any underlying cause-and-effect.
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  • Writer (2 Credits)
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  • Director (2 Credits)
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College
University of Washington
Fine Arts
19681972
High School
Queen Anne
general
19641967
Birth Date
March 7, 1949
Nickname
Brad
Birth City
Seattle, Washington
Current City
Longview, Washington
Hometown
Seattle, Washington
Height
5'11"
Gender
Male
Ethnicity
caucasian
Eye Color
Green
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Married To
none
Children
none
Graduated the University of Washington in painting/lithography in 1972. Before graduation, I became interested in filmmaking. I began, post-graduation in Super 8/double 8. Overwhelmed by the cost of making film. I had to give it up in 1973.
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