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Stop motion has been around for a long time, but it never ceases to be cool. Especially when it contains thousands of still frames and is done creatively.  I love Oren Lavie’s Her Morning Elegance.   It is an awesome example of the way stop motion video can create a captivating visual effect. From Oren’s MySpace page: *The video was shot all stills – roughly 3225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera, hanging from the ceiling for the main body of the movie. * It took 4 weeks before shooting to create an animated computer generated storyboard for the video, with 3d dummies for the characters. * It took only 2 days of shooting for the live actors on set to re-create the 3.5 minutes computer sequence, frame by frame. * Some of the bed sheets used in the video were taken from Oren’s own bedroom and are now considered collectors items, worth at the moment not very much and therefore used as bed sheets. * Each of the wonderfully talented...

This is a film that was submitted to our recent film festival. "Lethal Weapon 6" by Ryan Santagata.

 This video, by Cory Johnson, was shown at our recent Young Adult's Exhibition and Film Festival

This film, by Hutchison, was submitted to our recent film festival.

This is a film that was submitted to our recent Young Adult's film festival. "Bruce Bloodfist" by Keven Patterson

Here is another great video from our Young Adult's Exhibition!  Enjoy "Mi Rosario" by Nestor Munoz.

This video, by Nick O'Neill, was shown at our recent Young Adult's Exhibition.  Enjoy his "Expression!"

This video, by Chip Connell, John DiGangi, Brian Keefe, and Lucas Ritacco, was shown at our recent Young Adult's Exhibition.  Enjoy!