Produce and improve.
Learning how to make anything well requires beginning, failing, and yet doing that again. And again, and again….
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CUTFREE is a short nonfiction film, simply posted to my blog, realizing my inaction was defiance, side-stepping a toxic narrative of White masculinity—which still bedevils us.
Towards Decolonizing Media is a film / presentation / blogpost for Virginia Tech’s Center for Humanities.
And here’s another blogpost w/my first three (dance free) Tik Toks: Dinner, Little Possum, and Here I Am (+ links to a few students’ works, for the same assignment)
We’ve started teaching online. Here’s my first recorded lecture, on MAKING STORY.
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EAST OF PULSE, a projection for Annie Stevens’ & the Virginia Tech Percussion Ensemble’s performance of Henry Cowell’s PULSE, using imagery adapted from George Melford’s EAST OF BORNEO. Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg, VA, November 4, 2017. Karl Precoda co-producer.
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And here… at long last, are The Four Collaborations, 4 short fiction films created early in my time at VT, with students:
NECKTIE. A short fiction film adapted from a friend’s true story of leaving the defense industry. Starring Trevor Scott and David Johnson, written and produced by Charles Dye, directed and edited by Karan Kumar, camerawork by Maddie Hill
HALF. Short fiction film about a young woman breaking free of someone who bullies her. Starring Sarah Gehl and Micah Untiedt, written and produced Charles Dye, directed by Andrew Huang, camerwork by Sophia Okorn
BEG TO DIFFER. A short film about getting along—even when not getting along. Starring Kenzy Forman and Andrew Schurr, written and produced by Lauren Ravert, directed by Charles Dye, camerawork by Mordecai Lecky, edited by Sophia Okorn
C17. A short fiction film about a young woman’s addiction to Xanax, and her friends’ intervention. Starring Ann Marie Soltis, Mary Pat Gilliam, Molly McIntyre, written and produced by Maddie Hill, directed and edited by Charles Dye, camerawork by Micah Untiedt
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Before grad school, I struggled to write the ideas behind BEAR . It turns out I’m not that kind of eco-phenomenologist.
When I got to grad school, my first films bored me. EWE was the beginning of me making my kind of work.
I began THE ELK HUNT after THE CYRSTAL MOUNTAIN fell through. Then I read The Omnivore's Dilemmaand thought, well damn. Pollan did such an amazing job with Chapters 17 & 18. It was exactly what I’d been wanting to do with THE ELK HUNT—just better.
COMMERCIAL was a hoot to shoot for my friend Michael Cross.
Before LAST OF THE GUM MEN was edited, THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN was in production….
