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You can watch in resolutions of 360p, 480p, 720p HD, and 1080p HD. I think the best compromise for quality and loading speed is the 480p resolution. You can also watch it in HD on Vimeo.  Visit my YouTube channel for more films.

I may do a part two of this film. For now, this is the film in full.

The film is science fiction because it concerns the use of memory images for time travel. The powerful imagery of the singular event – the horrific event – is etched forever in the mind, yet it becomes fluid and its influences cannot be entirely trusted. What led up to the singular powerful event? What course was set following it? In what way would the entire world be different if the event had been avoided or not seen? Not recorded? If, as scientists say, the fundamental particles of existence change location or cease to exist when observed or not observed, then what about events in memory? Or events simply residing in the past?

If one asks ‘why are we here?’ Well, I think the answer is obvious. We are here to remember things. We are memory.

It’s difficult to see a star clearly if one looks straight at it. Looking just off to the side can clarify the star in one’s perception. Going back in time to recover something lost is very much the same. One is sometimes forbidden to look directly at the object sought. One must keep one’s gazed shifted slightly or risk losing the memory entirely. This principal has been understood for a long time.

So putting one’s eye on something like a yellow plastic raygun, or a car, for example, might in fact sharpen one’s vision and allow an accidental recovery or a transfer to take place.

Odd thoughts? Yes, well maybe so. Very much like the thoughts that run through one’s mind before sleep completely obliterates consciousness.

The film uses a mash-up of archival footage, drawings, digital painting, new video and video I shot many years ago. The imagery is very layered and attempts to duplicate the way images move through my mind as I circle around my ultimate objective which is sometimes nearly unknown. There are a multitude of connections and meanings to be drawn from the sequence of images. Some meanings might be very obvious, others would be almost impossible to predict.

My new film is a silent one about wet, foggy colors. It was raining in December and the roses looked droopy under the weight of the water droplets. Then the camera started going in and out of focus and I thought it made a good color show so I started to learn how to make it happen more and how to make the focus flutter. So I think that what is out of focus in the film is more important than what’s in focus.

Here’s a new film for the film fans who happen to stumble by. It’s a film about memory shifts, searching, losing something, trying to find the old image, trying to regain an old feeling or impression, capturing a season of life or the mind. As if one were thinking, “I can almost remember how it was and what we did that day so long ago. Where were we again? North somewhere? It was dark? No, the sun was out… wait, it was cold… I think.

The Visit is an animation I was working on about a year ago. The Flash player above includes everything I’ve done so far on the film. There’s no sound yet. It’s a rough edit of the animation as I go. The story is my adaptation of an old folk tale about a little girl who is cast out of her home to live in the forest. It’s a pretty serious and tough little story. No laughs really. I’m picking it up again to finish it. So I’ll be posting regular updates here for anyone who’s interested in seeing a short animated film reach completion.

When I previously worked on the film I blogged about the process and posted storyboard sketches and the full text of the story. You can read the blog about the making of The Visit here. Chances are, I’ll do most of the updating right here from now on.

My latest little film. It’s actually a cinegram. The subject is trains. Time. Memory. The present doesn’t exist. You can’t find it with measurement. You can’t even define it. The future is not there yet. You cannot see it. The only thing that really exists is the past. I say that because we can all see the past – some more clearly than others. But we can most certainly see it.

A cinegram is a short motion picture that uses images and text that are packed with meaning and suggestion. It’s my new word for things I once referred to as film poems.

Here’s the poem from inside the movie:

Lunch With Bardot

Trains run on time
With passengers asleep
Temporarily forgotten
Between observation points
Colliding lines
Of fictional transport

A real screamer of a fright movie! Venture, if you dare, into an old, cold mansion. This movie chronicles the growing awareness of something… haunting. May be too scary for children under 12.

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The Re-Gen Project movie recreates an experiment in raising the dead. May be too scary for children under 13. Watch with care.

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Go into the forest if you dare. Seek your fortune and beware! A scary Halloween treat for the strong of heart. Make sure you turn your sound on for this one! You must hear your fortune told.

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A plane goes on a dangerous night flight. A man jumps. He
places an urgent call…

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Travel into unknown lands with the adventurous tailor who
meets a giant. This animation is a fairy tale classic from
the Brothers Grimm.

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He’s made of stone. He’s a stone age robot and he’s trapped in prehistoric times. He really, really needs to get to the modern world where he knows he truly belongs. But how can he learn to deal with these cavemen?

We made this one back in 2005.

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He’s made of stone. He’s a stone age robot and he’s trapped in prehistoric times. He really, really needs to get to the modern world where he knows he truly belongs. But how can he learn to deal with these cavemen?

We made this one back in 2005.

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Part 3 of the vampire films.

Alessandro Cima has written and animated this continuation of the Dracula series. In this episode, a frightened soldier meets the terrifying Count and finds that he will never be the same.

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Part 2 of the vampire films.

We continue the story on from Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’s Guest.’ Alessandro Cima has written and filmed this episode of our horror machinima series.

In this episode, Dracula has written a message to the solicitor character from the first film.

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Part 1 of the vampire films.

Starting with Bram Stoker’s orginal tale, ‘Dracula’s Guest,’ we’ve continued with our own Dracula story in this series of machinima animations about the horror of the vampire!

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A great one for young children. All the A’s are missing from town. Where have they gone? Here comes Alpha Mouse to find them. Go, Alpha!

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