my films are a hybrid of
TEXT,
VISUAL ARTS,
SOUNDSCAPE
and ...
CONVERSATION
TEXT,
VISUAL ARTS,
SOUNDSCAPE
and ...
CONVERSATION
"Going Into Bethlehem"
This film blends music, sound effects, spoken word and motion graphics to evoke the experience of the few who found Joseph, Mary and their newborn in the animal enclosure. Their philosophical quandaries guide us in contemplating the ancient root of today's popular celebration. MORE
"World of Particles: images and chants from parts to the whole"
This short art film is just a mythical sketch about what has been happening since the Big Bang until now. Just a sketch full of rough edges from my thinking that God is making more than we realize, but that we have over the last few millennia begun to observe the process. Six months in the making, the film started with the original painting from thoughts about being individual parts of a greater whole. This inspired a blog post from which I selected 10 phrases to make non-traditional choral expressions about truths we are endeavoring to learn. You will hear the words of these phrases assemble in the film. MORE
"Break Our Chains"
Contemplating America’s circumstances in July 2020, I drew a cartoon and composed music to help review our common bondage and find liberation. MORE
"Formation Observed"
This animation was started 50 years ago. Wanting to practice on my new graphics tablet and explore Photoshop’s animation features, I used a photo of a six foot painting I did in my youth as a template to draw progressively, frame by frame, a new version of the painting. As I drew them again I could not help but contemplate the days when I first painted this collage of faces. . . . MORE
"On Creation"
This is an animated memo of thoughts from Mark R. Turner’s journal resulting from contemplation about our origins, the dynamic growth of the material universe, why there is something rather than nothing, the great amount that humanity has learned which increases the mysteries of our existence, . . . MORE
"Here Am I Listening"
a film of spontaneous sketches and contemplative music derived from Igor Stravinsky’s “L’Histoire du Soldat”
and Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion” MORE
and Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion” MORE
"We Deep Under Ocean"
slowly travel up a long, mixed media work of pencil drawing, charcoal markings, photos of found objects, and digital painting, exploring the embedded poem to a musical variation of Claude Debussy's "La Mer" MORE
"A Prayer for Beauty"
a poem visualized by photography and drawings over a period of about seven years with music drawn from masters such as Maurice Ravel, Gustav Holst, Bela Bartok and Samuel Barber, combining instruments, choral singing and verse choir with sounds from nature MORE
"Comforting Hovers"
As the camera moves over this oil painting, spoken poetic phrases and contemplative music
mixed with environmental sounds lead through impressions of an ancient story. MORE
mixed with environmental sounds lead through impressions of an ancient story. MORE
