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Hell
Is Other People -
(2008?)
Hell is Other People is the
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Footprints
- (2007,
14 min. 50 sec., color)
Footprints
is a short documentary which
brings to light an art program facilitated by muralist Frances McDonald
and hosted by the AIM Center, a Chattanooga "clubhouse"
whose mission is to aid in the social reintegration of adults with
persistent mental health issues.
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Emmy
- (2007,
4min. 48sec., color)
Emmy
is one of several short films made in preparation for the production
of Hell Is Other People; these shorts are designed primarily
to be a kind of dry run for both the actors and the director.
Each of them focuses upon one of the central characters of HIOP.
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Passion
Flower - (2007,
19min. 52sec., color)
A co-production with CoPAC.
Passion Flower
is a short documentary by Jarrod Whaley. The film deals with dancer
Ann Law's decision, after having been diagnosed with breast cancer
and having undergone a double mastectomy, to have her chest tattooed
instead of being fitted with prostheses or submitting to reconstructive
surgery.
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Cream
Soup - (2007,
7min.16sec., color)
Cream
Soup
is a short animated film by Jarrod Whaley. It is the "pilot episode"
of a proposed series of short cartoons (though time will tell if further
episodes will in fact be produced).
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Show
Me A Dance - (2007, 46 sec., color)
Show Me A Dance
is an extremely short and brutally goofy little movie made on a whim
one otherwise boring afternoon. It
speaks for itself.
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The
Door - (2007, 1 min. 56 sec., B+W)
The
Door is a kind
of psychological horror film--somewhat similar to the much earlier
Type in mood and tone--in which
a monstrous "evil" is implied but never directly seen.
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The
Jarrod Whaley Programme - (2006, 22 min., color)
The
Jarrod Whaley Programme
is a short comic documentary on the Shaking Ray Levi Society, Derek
Bailey, folk artist Rev. Howard Finster, and their respective roles
in 1987's FAH-SAH-LAH-CAH-LOH Festival at Finster's Paradise Gardens
in Pennville, GA.
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The
Auditor - (2006,
5 min. 24 sec., color)
The Auditor
is about excesses and obsessions; it is excessively and obsessively
focused upon excessive obsession. It is best viewed while listening
to the audio on headphones--or on speakers with the volume turned
way up.
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The
Amaranth - (2006
- ????, ?? min., B+W / color)
The Amaranth is an open-ended--and
possibly infinite--movie produced and presented in parts. New, sequentially
numbered parts appear from time to time.
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Telesthesia
- (2005,
59 min., B+W / color)
Telesthesia is a feature-length
silent film, more in the tradition of underground/avant-garde film
than that of the Silent Cinema of the early twentieth century.
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Frequencies,
pts. I & II - (2004,
9 min., B+W / color)
Frequencies is a cycle of
short films inspired by a fascination with the electromagetic spectrum
as manifest in its various naturally occurring and human-made forms.
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Rémy
Brick-head in Sour Sweetjuice - (2004,
13min. 8sec., B+W)
Remy Brickhead in Sour
Sweetjuice is an animated short
film by Jarrod Whaley. Individual frames were drawn freehand in
Photoshop and then imported into a video editor.
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Throb
- (2004, 5min. 42sec., Color)
Throb is an exploration of
the sensual and of the sexual in the physical elements of the cinema.
The flickering light from a pair of video monitors quivers, quakes,
and throbs as it falls upon the flesh of the spectator.
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Comme
Ci, Comme Ça
- (2004, 8min. 34sec., Color)
Comme Ci, Comme Ça,
a short absurdist narrative, was made in collaboration with Kelly
Moore.
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Pieces
- (2004, 28 min., B+W)
Pieces is a darkly surreal
cinematic concoction. It is a dream-like rendering of forced collegiality
under undesirable circumstances. It is a snapshot of subconscious
pressures stemming from the fear of change, and the inability to improve
one's situation despite, and paradoxically due to, those pressures.
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Slow
Night
- (2004, 5min. 14sec., B+W)
Slow Night is built around
a simple concept, one that is similar to the primary idea behind Pieces--namely,
that human beings can be maddeningly accepting of discomfort (often
to the point of outright pain), even when a simple solution is readily
available to them.
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Type
- (2003, 1.5 minutes, B+W)
Type is part examination
of compulsive behavior, part depiction of an inhumane symbiosis of
man and computer, and part rendering of self-imposed (yet still unwanted)
solitude. It is a rapid montage designed to dissect a particular strain
of autodestructive behavior as economically as possible.
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Short
Change
- (2003, 35 minutes, color)
Short Change takes the concept
of the dysfunctional family and removes the parents from the equation,
thereby pushing the brother/sister relationship to its very limits.
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The
6th Step
- (2002, 4 min. 49 seconds, B+W)
The 6th Step
is a simple, direct, and naturalistic take on the disappointment
one feels in failing to connect with other people.
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Dirty
Urges - (2002,
12 minutes, B+W / color)
Dirty
Urges is a voyeuristic peek inside the private world of a lonely
(and possibly very disturbed) individual. One sees what he does
when given the chance to escape public scrutiny.
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