PRAIRIE HILL Elementary Documentary

I've spent the last year and a half gathering footage and assembling this documentary/promo for Prairie Hill. Another project in the can!

PRAIRIE HILL Elementary from nocoastfilms on Vimeo.

PRAIRIE HILL Learning Center is a Montessori school located in a unique farm setting 7 miles south of Lincoln just off Highway 77, with a tradition of bringing children and nature together since 1981. Each weekday, PRAIRIE HILL serves nearly 80 children age 18 months through eighth grade, and during the summer offers three sessions of NATUREWORKS, a popular summer camp. PRAIRIE HILL is Nebraska’s first wind and solar powered energy education center. For more information, call 402-438-6668 or visit www.prairiehill.com.

Manufacturing Dreams

Manufacturing Dreams from nocoastfilms on Vimeo.

“No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in the cinema and this white shining point opens up for us, our gaze stops flitting hither and thither, settles and becomes quite steady. We just sit there, letting the images flow out over us. Our will ceases to function. We lose our ability to sort things out and fix them in their proper places. We’re drawn into a course of events–we’re participants in a dream. And manufacturing dreams, that’s a juicy business.” -Ingmar Bergman (Bergman on Bergman, 1973)

Home Grown Film Festival

"Homegrown" Film Festival
@ the Bourbon Theatre 1415 'O' Street - April 3rd, 9pm
Featuring local cinema arts on the big screen.

Free Admission-Free Popcorn

Playlist

"The Girl Who Could Run 600 Miles Per Hour" ~20mins

Directed by: Mark Thimijan

"I Want You To Know Something That Is True" ~2mins

Directed by: Jake Gillespie

"Neighbors" ~5mins

Directed by: Aaron Holmes

"Broken Circle" ~20mins

Directed by: Aaron Sawyer

"Red Means Danger" ~2mins

Directed by: Jake Gillespie

"Creation Myth" ~5mins

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Triptych- 1."Little Dances", 2."Dallas", 3."Las Golondrinas" ~10mins

Directed by: Elisabeth Reinkordt

"Orange Fuzzy" ~2mins

Directed by: Jake Gillespie

"M.O.N.S.T.E.R.S." ~15mins

Directed by: Robby Defrain

"Untitled" ~5mins

Directed by: Diane Nelson & Nate Young"

"Nice" ~2mins

Directed by: Jake Gillespie

"Treasure House" ~10mins

Directed by: Joe Younglove & Jacob Cammack

"Strange Medicine" ~10mins

Directed by: David S. Ozinga

"Jakefomercial" ~5mins

Directed by: Jake Gillespie

Seeing Better

"The documentary idea should simply enable everyone to see better." - Scot John Grierson, 1939, quoted from The Vision Machine by Paul Virilio.


When the Sun Rises from My Office from nocoastfilms on Vimeo.

Las Golondrinas

Las Golondrinas from nocoastfilms on Vimeo.

something to show for a day off, albeit small

little dances from nocoastfilms on Vimeo

oh, widescreen!

Tugboat Gallery from nocoastfilms on Vimeo.

Do You?

I made this in November of 2006 for the Multiplex installation put together by the Thought Farmers. A row of televisions was set up on a downtown Lincoln sidewalk on a cold December First Friday. There was even a popcorn machine!

The piece is certainly inspired by Austrian experimental filmmaker Martin Arnold, who is most well-known for using an optical printer to dissect a film scene frame by frame, examining minor movements and sounds. In light of the material used, this piece is also certainly an exercise in dealing with our current political situation (sadly, even more than a year later).


Do You? from nocoastfilms on Vimeo.

Fire

A still shot from a piece for Man's Last Great Invention

Processed Food is Nasty

My friend Kat is up to something excellent...

Creation Myth

Creation Myth from nocoastfilms on Vimeo.