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Recent Work

the grandfather puzzle_poster

poster
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poster for the short film, the grandfather puzzle.
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writer / director ora dekornfeld reached out and asked that we might make a poster for her award winning short film, the grandfather puzzle. dissatisfied with the poster she already had she was keen to see what we could do to rectify the situation.

the film follows ora as she tries to solve the mystery of her 100 year old hungarian grandfather's life — a holocaust survivor, he never wants to do anything except jigsaw puzzles. seeking to bridge a silence that has defined their relationship, ora journeys to hungary to photograph locations from his past and transform them into puzzles we can solve together. arriving at her grandfather's childhood home—a castle now repurposed as a boarding school—ora is unprepared for how the locals receive her: "has the baroness come to reclaim the castle?" what began as a simple quest to connect with her grandfather transforms into a darkly comedic exploration of identity, belonging, and the stubborn untidiness of historical memory.

we took a shine to the film for various reasons and jumped on a call with ora. after some discussion we presented her with a range of directions the poster could take. ora chose the one you see here, which caspar laid out, hand painted and scanned in the berlin studio.
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ora.film/the-grandfather-puzzle
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signal study I + II_motion graphics

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footage manipulation for the new york-based artist, wells watson.
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artist wells watson asked that we might use some of the gear in our london studio to degrade and distort the footage and the audio from a film he had written and directed. he wanted to use the results as part of a forthcoming solo show of his work.

after a long chat with wells, caspar and josiah newbolt agreed to run the film footage through various plugins, circuit bent machines and output the results through a series of vintage monitors. these monitors would then be digitally filmed, the footage imported, and the imagery then processed further in the computer before export.

josiah took care of this and then took the film's audio and ran that through his collection of analog synthesizers to tonally match the film's sound to the reworked imagery. wells and josiah then fine tuned everything to wells's satisfaction. results of the work you can see here and here, and on wells's website.

you can also read an interview with wells about these works and other excellent pieces in this interview with flaunt magazine.
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wellswatson.com
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protomen_act III_website

home page animation
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website for the nashville-based band, the protomen.
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the protomen asked that we might make a website for their new album, act III - this city made us. we reached out to our old friend and long-standing collaborator jules janssen and asked that he make us an interactive parallax version of the album's cover, similar to the album release video joey ciccoline made for the band. for that john delucca had cut his album cover painting up into pieces and jules consequently laid these pieces into a complex, custom, wordpress-based user interface of his own design.

caspar designed the rest of the site on top of that so that it would incorporate the band's pre-existing blog, working with jules to add small html 5 / canvas / CSS generated animated elements to bring the experience further to life. the protomen then worked with us to fine tune the site to their ultimate satisfaction.

please note this site was built to evolve, so stay tuned for updates in the near future.
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protomen.com
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