tedforbes.com » Films http://tedforbes.com DOP, MultiMedia :: (214) 267-8436 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:13:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Olafur Eliasson :: Take Your Time http://tedforbes.com/2009/09/olafur-eliasson-take-your-time/ http://tedforbes.com/2009/09/olafur-eliasson-take-your-time/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:58:36 +0000 admin http://newsite.tedforbes.com/?p=126 ]]> document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src=\"http://exposureroom.com/XRVideoPlayerEmbedIf.aspx?assetGuid=903f890c5e0e4dbda9a5c31f2855d15a&size=md&width=0&viewOnXR=False&titleColor=&title=False&description=False&urlLocation=") + encodeURIComponent(window.location.href) + unescape('" type="text/javascript"%3E%3C/script%3E')); document.close();

 

Credits:

Produced for: Dallas Museum of Art
Filming, Editing and Music: Ted Forbes
Assistant, Audio: Neil Sreenan
Interview: Laura Bruck

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Behind the Scenes

Olafur Eliasson is a major name in the art world combining scientific phenomenon, conceptual thinking and a wonderful sense of light to his sculptural works. He’s best known for the Weather Project at Tate Modern and the Waterfalls in Brooklyn, NY.

In November of 2008 the Dallas Museum of Art hosted his traveling exhibition, Take Your Time. As a promo for this exhibit I got the wonderful oppertunity to do several video pieces with Olafur and his assistant Felix Hallwachs from Studio Olafur in Berlin. Olafur was in the midst of a pretty hectic schedule as he was only in town a short time and working on several projects in addition to giving a public talk. As I recall, we had about an hour to film the entire interview. Neil Sreenan was running audio and Laura Bruck was coming off maternity leave to do the interview.

As it turned out, the gallery representing Eliasson took him to Arlington to view the new Dallas Cowboy Stadium which Olafur had been commissioned a piece for. Arlington is quite a drive and I’m not sure the time was accounted for. Olafur didn’t arrive until 45 min into our time slot. This left us with 15 min to get the film produced. On top of that, no one had fed the poor guy (it was about 3:00 at this point), and he felt our interview was too close to material covered in the exhibition catalogue.

At this point with almost no time left, we decided to kill several birds with one stone. The Museum has a cafe – so the best we could do at this point was to go get some food, setup the cameras and have a casual conversation and get it recorded.

The whole thing was done in the remaining 10 minutes before Olafur was taken off to do a TV spot at KERA. The interview ended up being perfect for what we were putting together. I think this is a reminder that sometimes you can be over prepared. There is a ton of preparation that goes into doing video work. You have to have your location, lighting and sound all prepared and ready so the people you’re shooting can be relaxed and laid back. In this case, we had to completely toss everything and improvise. The cafe has a huge atrium window and the light happened to be just right. It was crowded (the King Tut exhibit was underway), but we did find some space that worked well.

Sometimes accidents don’t turn out so bad.

]]> http://tedforbes.com/2009/09/olafur-eliasson-take-your-time/feed/ 0 All the World's a Stage :: David Lozano http://tedforbes.com/2009/08/all-the-worlds-a-stage-david-lozano/ http://tedforbes.com/2009/08/all-the-worlds-a-stage-david-lozano/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:03:55 +0000 admin http://newsite.tedforbes.com/?p=130 ]]> document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src=\"http://exposureroom.com/XRVideoPlayerEmbedIf.aspx?assetGuid=0a221fd314904bd48a3558821301eaad&size=md&width=0&viewOnXR=False&titleColor=&title=False&description=False&urlLocation=") + encodeURIComponent(window.location.href) + unescape('" type="text/javascript"%3E%3C/script%3E')); document.close();

 

Credits:

Produced for: Dallas Museum of Art
Filming, Editing and Music: Ted Forbes
Assistant, Audio: Neil Sreenan
Interview: Laura Bruck

 

David Lazono
Actor/Director – Dallas, TX

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This is an excerpt from a documentary I produced for the Dallas Museum of Art to go with the performance exhibit, All the World’s a Stage.

David Lazono is a talented actor who specializes in cultural works. He sits down to discuss his roots and how performing has impacted his life.

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Credits:

Produced for: Dallas Museum of Art
Filming, Editing and Music: Ted Forbes
Assistant, Audio: Neil Sreenan
Interview: Laura Bruck

 

Dr Joseph Klein

Music Composition Chair, University of North Texas

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Another excerpt from a documentary I produced for the Dallas Museum of Art to go with the performance exhibit, All the World’s a Stage.

Joe Klein and I go way back – I studied with him when I was getting my music degree at UNT and we’ve stayed in touch over the years. Joe is an incredible composer and one of the more interesting minds I’ve had the opportunity to study with. When the museum needed to interview a contemporary composer I jumped at the chance to get Joe on board.

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Credits:

Produced for: Dallas Museum of Art
Filming, Editing and Music: Ted Forbes
Assistant, Audio: Neil Sreenan
Interview: Laura Bruck

 

Fr Matthew Olver
Church of the Incarnation

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This is an excerpt from a documentary I produced for the Dallas Museum of Art to go with the performance exhibit, All the World’s a Stage.

Fr Olver was interviewed to discuss the aspects of performance found in the Liturgy in the Episcopal Church.

]]> http://tedforbes.com/2009/08/all-the-worlds-a-stage-matthew-olver/feed/ 0 Jennifer Mabus / Michelle Hanlon http://tedforbes.com/2009/08/jennifer-mabus-michelle-hanlon/ http://tedforbes.com/2009/08/jennifer-mabus-michelle-hanlon/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:14:33 +0000 admin http://newsite.tedforbes.com/2009/08/jennifer-mabus-michelle-hanlon/ ]]> document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src=\"http://exposureroom.com/XRVideoPlayerEmbedIf.aspx?assetGuid=f8a15e30345d4432abd0afb50a9ed5fc&size=md&width=0&viewOnXR=False&titleColor=&title=False&description=False&urlLocation=") + encodeURIComponent(window.location.href) + unescape('" type="text/javascript"%3E%3C/script%3E')); document.close();

 

Credits:

Produced for: Dallas Museum of Art
Filming, Editing and Music: Ted Forbes
Assistant, Audio: Neil Sreenan
Interview: Laura Bruck

 

Jennifer Mabus and Michelle Hanlon
Dancers

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Another excerpt from a documentary I produced for the Dallas Museum of Art to go with the performance exhibit, All the World’s a Stage.

Michelle Hanlon choreographed an interpretive dance piece based on Picasso’s the Guitarist. Jennifer was the dancer. They explain some of their process here.

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Credits:

Produced for: Dallas Museum of Art
Filming, Editing and Music: Ted Forbes
File Footage: Thomas Riccio
Assistant, Audio: Neil Sreenan
Interview: Laura Bruck

 

Thomas Riccio
University of Texas at Dallas

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This is an excerpt from a documentary I produced for the Dallas Museum of Art to go with the performance exhibit, All the World’s a Stage.

Thomas Riccio is an extremely interesting individual – in addition to teaching at the University, he’s often hired by international performing arts council’s to work with indigenous cultures and peoples to bring about cultural awareness and education through theater workshops and performances. I might post more video later – one of those interviews that makes me love my job.

The file footage was shot by Thomas in Africa – I filmed the interview.

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