Where noise meets vision
Digital Etchings is the show case for Tony Martin, an aspiring film maker in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Other Projects:
My latest project is Dining with Miyoko - my first ever cooking video! Borrowing elements from the sitcom genre, with a narrative style and clever plot, Miyoko goes out of her way to please a friend after an unpleasant dining experience at a well to do restaurant in town. The dish is all vegan. [click here]
One assignment for class produced this 30 second clip of my interpretation of Martin Scorsese's "Last Temptation of Christ". [click here]
Martial-Quest marked my first commercial project. Check it out at:
martial-quest.com
An excerpt of a one hour documentary I worked on in late 2003 is posted online, it is about 100Friends.com. This 16 minute clip is 9.8 MB in size. [click here]
Summer 2003: David Asmamaw's feature length film, ANDU IN AMERICA is the story and idea of David. He and I both directed it. The film is approximately 80 minutes in length. [trailer 1] [trailer 2]
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"Jesus re-edited" - Taking clips from Martin Scorsese's "Last Temptation of Christ" and cut/styling it to imitate "Without a trace".
'The Journey' - a tribute to my dad, found on a special DVD I presented to him on Thanksgiving '04.
'The Wedding' - this is the other wedding I covered this summer, also for a friend.
time: 2:35 size: 7.4MB
time: 5:25 size: 9MB
'WVD 2003' - Go Vegan! I covered this World Vegetarian Day event for the San Francisco Vegetarian Society.
'Andu in America' - This is a trailer (created in five hours) for a feature film for David Asmamaw (78 min. length) shot during the summer of 2003.
time: 2:03 size: 5.6MB
time: 1:35 size: 3.8MB
'Heavy Breather' - a short film about a mischief maker. Intended to be expanded at a later date, but put on back burner for now.
'Double Indignation' - A goofy sketch featuring some fancy trick photography, rotoscoping, and a spice of social commentary thrown in for good measure.
time: 3:00 size: 4.5MB
time: 3:00 size: 5.0MB
'Residual Memory' - explores a few aspects of the unthinking mind. Contains footage of a pig getting abused.
'Last Man Standing' - Everyone is dead. Now what? Tale of a sole survivor after mystery virus wipes out mankind.
time: 3:33 size: 4.1MB
time: 4:15 size: 5.6MB
'Galaxies and Clusters' - Handicapped guy uses wit to get into a closed event at Berkeley's Vista College...
'Grease' - performed by the Alameda High School Drama Department in March 2002.
time: 6:22 size: 6.6MB
time: 4:55 size: 6.6MB
'The Potluck' - a Corporate Video, to the tune of Weird Al Yankovick. Made with iMovie.
'Life of Alan' - Alan is 38, but he has the IQ of a two year old.
time: 0:30 size: 1.8MB