Jim Minton
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Dallas Texas USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Jim Minton has been a leader in high impact broadcast design and direction for over 20 years. His designs have received awards from: The Broadcast Designers International Design Competition, The Promax Gold Medallion Competition, The Promax BDA Latin Awards and The New York Film Festival to name a few. His career has included detours into the corporate design world and to music videos. Today he heads his own design studio specializing in motion graphics and print design. Most recently he has been producing experimental short films that are being accepted as official selections at various international video festivals. A Native American business owner, Jim is a member of the Choctaw Nation. His projects have included works produced for NBC, CBS, TNT, ESPN, CNN, Televisa, Anheuser Busch, No Limit Records, Purina Mills, Blockbuster, A.G. Edwards, numerous broadcast television stations and professional sports teams as well as international animated design projects. Filmography/Awards Info: 2006 Stanksports A staged, archival "Cat Fight" and a load of plugins make Jim Minton's silly, sexy experiment command attention. Two strange minutes you'll never get back. 2006 The Scab "The Scab" is by far my favorite poem and film from the grouping. The imagery is imaginative and fits the poem perfectly. Near flawless editing and well suited graphics are combined to create a truly unique and interesting piece of cinema. Dread Central "The Scab" is effective in its stunningly succinct and economic storytelling--replete with conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution in under a minute--a pithy personal exploration of a female’s introversion and ostracizing by society by way of 1950s-Era commercial imagery and tone as directed by the love child of Tim Burton and The Brothers Quay. The Horror Review 2006 Exquisite Corpse As producer, Jim Minton has assembled a team of Directors, Animators, and New Media Artists from around the world to come together and create their own exquisitely twisted compilation of image and text. Each has contributed a dark short-short film, based on a flash poem by award-winning horror author Michael Arnzen, in order to create a dark, funny, and scary chain of cinema that is something like a Frankenstein of film. 2005 Dandelion Dandelion is based on a poem written by Jim's niece, Heather Minton. Heather is a publisher's editor, just starting in her professional career. The poem's significance is that she and her younger sister, Tara were both born with Cerebral Palsy. The poem takes on a very supernatural personality as the flower speaks with a human voice of fragility, while still the hopeful and beautiful weed. Awards: Conestoga International Film Festival 2005 Lat O Lat Jim has always had a fascination with symmetry, forced repetition of shapes and kaleidoscopic effects. Lat O Lat is a re-purposing of his original work C-Flat processed into a hypnotic series of faceted and mirrored images in motion. 2004 Updebum Ever get something stuck between your teeth and can't get it out? Take that to the Nth Power and you have Jim Minton's perverse, offbeat documentary short. This shocking piece details a true collection of foreign objects recovered by emergency room physicians from a certain body cavity. Absolutely laughable and totally unbelievable. Don't bring the kids. Call 911. Voices Margaret Saltzman & Jim Minton. Original music by Roadkill. Awards: Boston Underground Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival 2004 Aging Aging is a time-compressed modification of Jim's earlier short film CUMPLEANOS. The film was modified to a 60 second length and submitted to 1 minute film festivals; "VideoDictionary" organized in Madrid and "Zero to Sixty" for the CBC. 2004 A Cowboy Story A short story with photographs from the early 1950's brought to life. Writen and photographed by B.J. Minton. Original music by Michael Mouracade. 2002 C-Flat C-Flat is Jim Minton's 4th short film and a departure in technique and scope from his earlier work in content and production value. The piece is inspired by a David Gascoyne Dadaist poem from the early 1900's. Dadaist and Surrealistic poetry is often hard to interpret and this is a visualization of a work from that period in art history. Animation Category winner Conestoga International Film Festival. Original music by Michael Mouracade of Austin, Texas. Narration by Marina Johnson of Stockholm, Sweden. Awards: Best Special Effects Sansevieria Film & Video Festival 2001 CUMPLEANOS An experiment in time. The concept was to take 52 years of Jim’s face and attempt to create the illusion of aging. The Dallas Video Festival called it "Jim Minton does Dorian Gray". It is an odd and gritty evolution that looks very morphy at times and like something totally new other times. Original music by Michael Mouracade. Awards: Best Special Effects Sansevieria Film & Video Festival 2000 Trust All Joy Jim's first true short film. The piece was done as a tribute to his sweetheart Margaret. The project was built in bits and pieces over a year utilizing her family photos. Original music by Michael Mouracade. 2000 Senses While taking a class on After Effects Jim created his first self produced experimental film Senses. The piece is very simply produced but effective in its simplicity. Incorporating tear sheets from magazines in diagonal moves, pans zooms, and overlaying typography with an effect of gritty noise as visual glue. 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