Posts Tagged ‘Video’

Here’s me playing the song Xanadu on the piano, and starting with the second verse I start messing with the musical style a bunch.
According to the website for the Broadway musical, Xanadu means “to express oneself through the arts with abandon.” Well, this is how I Xanadu!
In the spirit of expressing oneself, if you like [...]

When the film The Aristocrats came out in 2005, the production company sponsored a contest in which people were to submit video recording of their own telling of The Aristocrats, the now-famous joke whose punchline never changed and which got its humor from everything else the teller created, usually the more vulgar the better, before [...]

Lisa Glick
Vocalist
Accompanied by Mark Meritt
Appearing This Summer
July 22 — 8:00 p.m.
Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center Poughkeepsie, NY — 845.486.4571
August 17 — 8:00 p.m.
The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck Rhinebeck, NY — 845.876.3080
Join us for an evening of Jazz Standards, Broadway Favorites, some sizzle, some soul, and some surprises!

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This documentary short motion picture is a behind the scenes look at the making of Gratuitous Violence. It was shot on a VHS camcorder and edited with the camcorder and VHS VCR. True to its name, it is notable for being longer than the movie that is its own subject.
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The digital video [...]

This narrative short motion picture was produced for a course in filmmaking with filmmaker Marilyn Rivchin at Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies. A spoof of Hollywood spy movies, the story follows an unlucky average Joe into whose hands accidentally falls a canister of top secret microfilm. Effortlessly, the inexperienced protagonist foils each and every [...]

This documentary motion picture short was produced for a course in filmmaking with filmmaker Marilyn Rivchin at Cornell University during Mark”’’s undergraduate studies. A study in contrast, the piece plays with filming techniques to explore the Cornell University campus through different kinds of motion. The title is also a play on the name of the [...]

This narrative short motion picture was produced for a course in filmmaking with filmmaker Marilyn Rivchin at Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies. A fake public service annoncement, it comments satirically on the problem of overpopulation, a subject Mark would work a great deal more on in the future. The short was produced on 16mm, [...]

This narrative short motion picture, in which a dysfunctional couple is made moreso when a television ratings company lures them into what is later revealed to be an Orwellian conspiracy, was produced by a motion picture course given at Cornell University during the summer of 1991. The script was chosen via a departmental screenwriting competition, [...]

In 1990, the Masque and Mime Society celebrated its 25th anniversary as the drama club of Roy C. Ketcham High School in Wappingers Falls, NY. A gala celebration was held, including dinne and a nearly 4-hour live retrospective of selected scenes from the organization’s past performances. Made for the event and shown at the beginning [...]

This original musical, in which a hip immortal helps college students find love, was developed during the authors’ sophomore and junior years at Roy C. Ketcham Senior High School in Wappingers Falls, NY. The Masque and Mime Society, the school’s drama club, presented it as a full production May 27-29, 1988, near the end of [...]