Jack Myers
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Brooklyn New York USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
| web: http://www.artfool.com/ | |
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Bio:
Jack has worked in the design and film industry for 10 years, accumulating a diverse body of award-winning work. He designed his first book in preschool and shot his first film in 4th grade, eventually building a solid reputation as the class weirdo. After completing school at the Memphis College of Art and the San Francisco Art Institute he landed his first plum design job at the Bay Area firm DesignSite, becoming Senior Designer in 1996. In 2000 he moved to New York where he completed "Food", an animated film recently seen at the New York Animation Festival and currently airing on PBS. He works with the Williamsburg-based film collective Reel Sweet Betty, which produces and directs work by local filmmakers. In 2002 he and partner Matthew Robbins officially incorporated Artfool, their multi-disciplinary design company. Filmography/Awards Info: FORK - 1992 - BW Video starring Hazel Cox Fork was a short film I did while at the San Francisco Art Institute. A meditation on eating and madness, it began a series of food (and fork) oriented films. THE CASE OF ANNA O'RROSE - 1992 - BW Film starring Mary Lynn Rajskub A short film completed while at the San Francisco Art Institute. A bizarre and perverse parody of early surrealistic art films, bad performance art and even worse installation art (the kind unleased upon the world by trust-fund kids with too much time and too much theory.) THE DINNER PARTY - 1993 - Color Video An 'experimental' film documenting a single dinner party and the mayhem that typically ensues. Very textural and pretentious. GROCERY MUSE - 1994 - Color Video starring Mary Lynn Rajskub, Robin Bernhard and Matthew Robbins A crudely slapped together guerilla production shot in a Piggly Wiggly supermarket in Memphis, TN. Completely (and obviously) improvised, this is a tale of 2 women, one obsessed with consumer goods, the other with a painting, and their disturbing meeting. EAT - 1999 - Color Video starring Tania Kac and Carlos Loperena My first DV short, Eat is about a husband who slowly begins to suspect that his wife is preparing something other than his next meal. FOOD - 2001 - Color Video starring Karen Shapiro Food is an animated short exploring the food chain, natural selection and the relationship between the consumer and the consumed. It pays homage to daytime television, bad horror movies and obtuse art films. It also contains cute birds, a telekinetic houseplant and something resembling meatloaf. Behold as the protagonist is threatened with eating utensils! Marvel at the lively and colorful anatomy lessons! Thrill at the refreshing lack of handheld cinematography! Food was shot entirely with a digital video camera and animated/edited on a Macintosh. It has no budget other than a green sheet, some halogen lights and a bottle of wine (catering). Except for our dazzling actress Karen Shapiro, all sets, props and creatures were generated from stock photos or 3-D animation. This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
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