For the last three weeks I have been creating 30 second video teasers for Jody Oberfelder Dance promoting THROB, their upcoming show at Abrons Art Center. info link here
Stay tuned for the final teaser on Wednesday, which will be a re-edited compilation of footage from these 3 videos plus a few other scenes thrown in.
Here they are in order:
This week, 2 of my new short video promos were released on the internet.
The first, a weekley buildup of a ~2 minute screendance/promo hybrid video released in three ~30 second sections promoting Jody Oberfelder Dance’s upcoming show at Abrons Art Center:
The second, a profile video of Chef Dawn for her just launched website, www.dawnsdish.com designed by The Notion Collective:
My short film “The Body Show: How to Boil and Egg,” is part of a panel discussion at Wordstock, an annual literary festival in Portland, Oregon. ”The Body Show” was my last project started while living in Portland that I literally finished on the train while moving to NYC. In the near future, my collaborator Nora Robertson and I plan on creating a series of short videos based off of a collection of Nora’s poems.
Check it out if you’re in Portland this weekend:
From Playboy to the Bible:
Adapting Writing for Screen and Image
When: Sunday October 9, 2011 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Venue: Oregon Cultural Trust Stage at Oregon Convention Center
link: From Playboy to the Bible
”How to Boil and Egg” trailer:
Last night was the premiere of “Check Your Body at the Door,” the documentary that I have spent the last month escorting through the finish line. I mastered the DVD, provided general quality control, and was in charge of the duplication process. I definitely enjoyed the fruit of my labor seeing a great film about the 90’s “golden era” of underground house dancing to a sold out and lively crowd. It was great to be part of the team that brought this film to fruition and an extra bonus to meet some of the dancers.
Check out their moves here: Dancers
Or buy the DVD here: DVD
Below is a picture of Willie Ninja, godfather of Vogueing and one of the featured dancers in the documentary.
August was a crazy month for me. I was gone from NYC for over a month!
First I helped produce a new screendance with Li Chiao-Ping and fellow Notion Collective partner Michael Eckblad. We are adapting Chiao-Ping’s staged performance “Re:Joyce,” a piece that is about her mother coming to the US from China to make a beter life for their family.
Then I attended Farmwork, an annual artist residency near Madison Wisconsin. I’ve attended off and on for a about 6 years, but this time seemed notably more regenerative. Possibly it was the contrast of my new life in NYC to nature surrounded Wisconsin.
Right after Farmwork I jumped into the editing and color grading of “Circling,” a new screendance featuring legendary NYC choreographer Sally Gross produced and directed by Douglas Rosenberg.
Below is a still from “Circling”
Jason Bahling is a videographer, installation, and time based artist currently living in Brooklyn NY. His videos (both single channel and installation) have shown in numerous galleries, film festivals, and coffee-shops throughout the nation. While he has actively participated in most arenas of freelance video design and big budget film production, Jason primarily enjoys collaborating with choreographers, musicians, and theatre companies.
Jason Bahling is also 1/5 partner in The Notion Collective. A multidisciplinary conceptual art collective that creates pieces in web art, public art, social practice art, video art, installation art... well pretty much whatever medium suits the concept they are exploiring. Check out some of their work at http://notioncollective.com/
Notable productions he has contributed to include Overviews
and Interviews
with Jin-Wen Yu Dance, Aroma/5 Senses
with Emmy nominated Doug Rosenberg, Take-Off
with Li Chiao-Ping Dance, and The Three Penny Opera
with UW-Theatre. In 2007 and 2008 he was an artist in residence for The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society providing projection design for a unique and divergent selection of 6 different chamber compositions performed by world class musicians.
His video projections revel in the physicality of time, light and space to create moving landscapes, altered realities, and evocative textures that conceptually augment and visually enhance live performances of many genres.