A FLORESTA
2024 . Color/B&W . 16 mins . Nonfiction
World Premiere . Montclair Film Festival
Synopsis . An experimental portrait of overlapping histories, extractive capitalism, and the tension between nature and its representation—all within the boundaries of Tijuca National Park, Rio de Janeiro.
Editor / Colorist / VFX / Title Design . Ian Clark . Sound Mix . Matt Scott Baker . Director . Brooks Dierdorff
+WATCH / VIMEO
RAD DAD
2023 . Color . 13 mins . Fiction
World Premiere . BAFICI (Sección Trayectorias)
Synopsis . A sesh with the boys would make dad glad. But if dad can't get rad, then will he be sad?
Cinematographer / Producer / Colorist . Ian Clark . Starring . Frances Eister Weintraub . Zach Weintraub . Sound Mix . Matt Scott Baker . Title Design . Casey Jones . Director . Zach Weintraub
+WATCH / NOBUDGE
ANIMAL IN ASCENSION
2022 . Color . 6 mins . Nonfiction
World Premiere . Chicago Underground Film Festival
Synopsis . An inter-dimensional fever dream about DMT and the margins of human perception.
Director / Cinematographer / Producer / VFX / Colorist . Ian Clark . Featuring . Julian Yuri Rodriguez . Editor . Nico Toll . Co-Editor . Ian Clark . Sound Recordist . Christopher Lopez . Music . Eleh . Sound Mix & Finishing . Chip Sloan & Th3rd Sound
+WATCH / NOBUDGE
MUSICAL ECOLOGY
2020 . Color . 4 mins . Nonfiction
World Premiere . Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival
Synopsis . Electronic virtuoso Dan Deacon streams his consciousness, signaling the interrelationship between music, humanity, and plant intelligence.
Director / Cinematographer / Colorist . Ian Clark . Featuring . Dan Deacon . Editor . Nico Toll . Music Courtesy . Domino Recording Co. . Event Production . Pickathon
+WATCH / FILMMAKER MAGAZINE
A MORNING LIGHT
2015 . Color . 82 mins . Fiction
World Premiere . Torino Film Festival (Sezione Onde)
Synopsis . “When they find one another by chance in the middle of the woods, old friends Zach and Ellyn seem smiled-upon by the gods of summer, fated for a carefree season ranging across hills, lakes and forests. Gradually, however, their charmed reunion is distorted by an unseen but ever-expanding presence. Are they hidden in a quiet glade after all, or perched on the tip of the universe, buffeted by cosmic winds? A Morning Light finds a new mode for the sci-fi thriller, one of insomniac watchfulness. With its eerily precise photography and uncanny soundscape that pulses, rumbles, and roars behind sedate scenery, it poses the otherworldly as something very near, something embedded in our own eyes and ears.” — Jonathan Kieran
Director / Cinematographer / Editor / Writer / Sound Designer . Ian Clark . Starring . Zach Weintraub . Celia Rowlson-Hall . Producers . Benjamin Wiessner . Jim Cummings . Ian Clark . Co-Writers . Zach Weintraub . Celia Rowlson-Hall . Austin Will . Dusty Decker . Music . Eleh . Sound Mix & Finishing . Brett Allen . Colorist . Sean Wells
+WATCH / VIMEO
THE ACT OF BECOMING
2015 . Color . 61 mins . Nonfiction
World Premiere . CPH:DOX
Synopsis . The story of John Williams's rediscovered masterpiece that stunned the whole world – 50 years after being written.
Editor . Ian Clark . Featuring . Steve Almond . Morris Dickstein . John Doyle . Edwin Frank . Anna Gavalda . Netta Gurevitch . Tim Kreider . Mel Livatino . Colum McCann . Robin Robertson . Oscar Van Gelderen . Dan Wakefield . Cinematographer . Nandan Rao . Original Score . Peter Broderick . Colorist . Carey Burens . Directors . Jennifer Anderson & Vernon Lott
+WATCH / VIMEO
MMXIII
2013 . Color . 67 mins . Experimental & Nonfiction
World Premiere . New Orleans Film Festival
Synopsis . An experimental self-portrait, MMXIII explores phenomenological subtlety, intersections of construct and verité, and the ways in which technology, landscape, and beauty coalesce. Here, an artist’s reflexive gestures investigate moving images and the nature of image construction, blurring the lines between cinema, still photography, and performance art.
Director / Cinematographer / Editor / Writer / Producer / Actor . Ian Clark . Additional Cinematography . Nandan Rao . Featuring . Ian Clark . Nandan Rao . Sarah Nance
+WATCH / VIMEO