The Dears – “Omega Dog” (Montreal 2010)
Shot, directed and edited by Sinbad Richardson. 6 min 07 seconds
Art direction by Aaron Seligman
Production assistance and additional live footage by Adam Eberwein Vienna Pitts / Cardboardbox Project Production
Omega Dog was completely shot using Apple’s 4th generation iPod Touch. The scenes with Murray on the sidewalk was also lit using a Blackberry. It took 40 helium balloons to lift the iPod above the buildings on a freezing cold bustling Saint-Laurent boulevard in Montréal. Thanks Adam for making it happen!
ALDO – “I Fell In Love With My Dance Teacher” (New York, Montreal 2010)
Fall/Winter 2010 Video Campaign Ad.
Directed by Sinbad Richardson. Total approx: 1min.
Produced by Peter Szolloci. Shot by Rod Lamborn and Shane Siegler. MS4 Productions
Stars – The Five Ghosts, Making Of (Montreal/Toronto, 2010)
Six part webisode series youarestars.com
Shot, Directed and Edited by Sinbad Richardson. Total approx: 24 minutes.
Produced by Jonathan Achtman, Eoin O Leary and Aaron Seligman. Vienna Pitts / Cardboardbox Project Production for Soft Revolution Records
This six episode series follows closely as Stars record their album The Five Ghosts.
Watch the entire six part series at youarestars.com
Plants And Animals – The Mama Papa (Montreal, 2010)
Music video.
Written, Directed and Edited by Sinbad Richardosn. Total approx: 5 minutes.
Produced by Jonathan Achtman and Aaron Seligman.
Shot by Bobby Shore.
Art Direction by Anika Kraus and Natalka Proszak. Cardboardbox Project Production for Secret City Records
Winner of MTVU.com Freshmen voting poll, and broadcast on MTV U.S regular rotation.
Some character sketches and the final outcome on set, great work Natalka Prozsak! Set photography by Martin Reisch (SafeSolvent)
Think About Life – Sweet Sixteen (Montreal, 2009)
Music video.
Directed by Sinbad Richardson. Total Approx: 4 minutes.
Produced by Jonathan Achtman and Aaron Seligman. Cardboardbox Project Production for Alien 8 Records
All props created by Natalka Proszak.
Making of featurette=
Production photos
Film Set set.
Pee-Wee adapts to long hours on set.
Pee-Wee's handlers.
Chia Armpet.
Eoin O Leary as Derek Burman, my personal hero.
Jonathan Achtman, producer.
Prop handlers rehearsing their 'plan sequence' choreography.
Making Music – Dishwasher (Montreal, 2006)
Musician Profile for Film POP / NFB Making Music.
Written, Directed and Edited. Total Approx: 6 minutes.
Produced by Patricia Boushel. Film POP Production for a National Film Board of Canada initiative.
This short documentary follows Montreal music maker Dishwasher as he takes us on a tour of his studio. Explore his unconventional instruments and sources of inspiration in this funny and intriguing short. This film is part of the Making Music 2006 emerging filmmaker initiative, produced in association with the Pop Montreal festival.
This is Martin a.k.a Dishwasher with Aaron Seligman, who also took this photo. He let us use his studio space to shoot the short and work on props, Martin is holding one we bought at the Salvation Army that didn’t make the final cut.
Selected for the Factory: Hamilton Media Arts Centre’s exhibition titled REFLEX: On the Arts(September 2010). In partnership with the National Film Board of Canada, The Factory presented an original selection of the NFB’s most intriguing and provocative films and videos on the Arts.
