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47th Ann Arbor Film Festival Animation

I had the joy of animating this years promotion video for the Ann Arbor film Festival again.  This years slogan is “welcome to the new world of independent cinema“.  Ryan designed a very detailed Map for the campaign that I brought to life in this animation.  Music outtakes from The Life Aquatic sound track were provided by Mark Mothersbaugh from DEVO.

47th AAFF Trailer Animated from Ann Arbor Film Festival on Vimeo.

A 30-second animated video to promote the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival, which takes place March 24 – 29, 2009. The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the original North American independent film festival and a forum for cutting-edge, art-driven, visionary filmmakers and new media artists to share their work.

Animation: Martin Thorburn
Music: Mark Mothersbaugh | Mutato Muzika
Graphic Design: Ryan Molloy
Sound Effects: Steve Dannemiller
Logo Design: Raul Peña
Producer: Donald Harrison

MATES – Simonnewcomb

A music video created for simonnewcomb’s song MATES.  Featured at the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival and Toured all year in 2008 with the traveling film festival.  This video is also being distributed by Undergourndvideos.com.

MATES – (Final Version) from Martin Thoburn on Vimeo.

Avant Bard

Avant Bard is homage to the experimental and avant-garde films of the 1920′s and 30′s.  Created in collaboration with Kim Johnson and music composed by JDSY.

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WATER

The idea for this short film originally was an extention of the film Sinneskopf.  I wanted to tell a similar story with an emphasis on bluring the lines of reality, dream and memory.  The film naturally evolvend into its own sotry and WATER became the primary visual metaphor throught the piece.  Kim Johnson played the leading roll,  I was also to appear in the film as a memory but later decided to edit those scenes out.  The concept was c0-develped in conjunction with John Lloyd who also co-directed and shot the video with me.  This film was actually shot 2 times.  The first time just as a rough story without any focus on lighting or set design.  Then completly reshot with dramatic light and fog effects.  All of the sound effects were editing in post prodution, with a few exceptions  the audio is completly non-sync sound.

JDSY – Smoke n Mirrors

Music video for the song Smoke n Mirrors by JDSY featured on the Moodgadget complilation The Rorschach Suite.

When I approached Joey (aka JDSY) about creating a video for this song it was recieved with great enthusasm.  We chated via instant messager about the idea of dumping lots of milk all over his old ford.  Later ideas  inclduing cuting a gallon of milk in mid air with a samurai sword.  Deck Master D. assured me he could perform the manuver.

Needless to say non of these idea were acutalized.  Instead Dawn Stronski and I decided to play with some old childhood puppets of mine.  This video is the result.

Sinneskopf

Sinneskopf got its name from the phrase “mind head” translated into grerman by an online lauange translator.  The nonsensical title is approretly refective of the charicters paranoia in the film.  I had the please of working on this project with John Lloyd and Kevin Weir.  I was elected to play the leading roll since we had no one else to play the part. We decided that I would not speak durring the entire film with one notible exception since I possesed little to no acting skills or experience.  It still a bit painful to watch me perform on screen, however the joy of video was well worth it.  The out-take at the end of the video is testament to the mood on the set.  apparently I needed a few beers to get into charicter.

The video was shot in my apartment over the course of 12 hours.  The concept was abstract and simple and allowed for some creative editing.  I drop a class in college just so I could spend more time in the editing room with john on this project.  It ended up paying off in the end and recieved an award for best video editing.

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