Month: February 2010

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“Let It All Burn Down”

A music video, conceived and directed by yours truly.


(watch video on Vimeo)

“Let It All Burn Down” written and performed by The Nightbirds.
Starring Christina Aimerito and The Nightbirds.
Conceived and directed by: Ryan M. Moore.
Produced by: Ayanna Hart.
Director of Photography: Nathan Levine-Heaney.
Animation by: Mallory Whitelaw.

AWARDS
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Los Angeles Reel Film Festival, honorable mention, music video category
Los Angeles Film and Script Festival, honorable mention, music video category

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
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Southeast New England (SENE) Film and Music Festival
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival
SF Shorts: San Francisco International Festival of Short Films
Zero Film festival (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Reel Film Festival
Los Angeles Film and Script Festival
New York Los Angeles International Film Festival (screening upcoming)

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A story for a contest. I did not win.

I fully acknowledge this is not very good. I like the story, but not the writing. At the time I hadn’t done any prose writing for a few years. This was for a Mcsweeney’s contest to finish story ideas left behind by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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based on premise: “There was once a moving-picture magnate who was shipwrecked on a desert island with nothing but two dozen cans of film..”

I.

There was once a moving-picture magnate who was shipwrecked on a desert island with nothing but two dozen cans of film.

“Not even fucking film anymore,” he told himself as the South Pacific surf pounded him under again and again.

“All fucking digital now,” he complained to no-one as he found a safe landing place on the rocky shore of the island, using a technique he had once seen on a television survival show hosted by a man named “Grizzly.”

And then later (he remembered as somehow he pulled himself up onto the jagged rocks), Continue reading “A story for a contest. I did not win.”