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Paradise - a short poetic documentary and artist moving image about trans/non-binary artist gardener Mol Benge.

Directed by Iso Attrill
Cinematography by Pete Butterworth
Sound & Music by HAUS of GEORGE aka Colton Kempf
Produced by SparkBoom Productions

below is a short clip from the 5-minute film

Alter Ego - a short arist/athlete film presented by Kyle Beattie. shot on Kyle‘s home trails in the Scottish Highlands. the film blends the riding that Kyle loves with a darker, cinematic style.

Rider: Kyle Beattie
Director/Producer: Will Rabbitt
DOP/ Editor: George Willment
Second Camera / Photographer: Johny Cook
Sound and Music: HAUS of GEORGE aka Colton Kempf
Sound Recordist: Colton Kempf

MIXED FEELINGS - a kaleidoscopic archival film from e.g. King’s ‘Mixed Feelings’, a psychoanalytically themed concept bar slash artwork, set as a salon style gathering across three nights at ALICE BLACK, London in April, 2024. Curated by e.g. King and Jane McCabe.

Filmed by Colton Kempf & Iso Attrill
Edited by Colton Kempf
Produced by SparkBoom Productions

below is a short clip from the 10-minute film

link to exhibtion programme and full film

5,500 Miles - recorded on a Hi-8 camcorder, this short experimental film documents 5,500 miles on the road, from PA to LA, guided by ten US National Parks.

Parks include: Cuyahoga, Indiana Dunes, Badlands, Wind Cave, Yellowstone, Crater Lake, Redwoods, Yosemite, Sequoia, Joshua Tree.

Filmed by Iso Attrill & Colton Kempf
Sound & Music by Colton Kempf
Produced by SparkBoom Productions

Why? - a hilariously disarming dark comedy tackling some of life’s big questions; with genuine laughs and unexpected insights, it reveals our inabilitiy to confront grief.

Directed & Written by Iso Attrill
Produced by L’oyin Ogunbusola
Sound Recording by Cam Griffiths
Sound Mix & Original Music by Colton Kempf

below is a short clip from the 10-minute film

NX Radio with Monty - NX Radio is a space in the Goldsmiths Music department for students and friends to practice radio broadcasting and DJ'ing. this short film intends to capture the feeling of the room.

Made by Colton Kempf
Starring Monty Williams
Music from Suzanne Kraft

a C c f - an ethnographic and experimental film profiling CROSSOVERS, a collective that hosted regular nights of sonic experiments in Southeast London. The film proposes several questions, beginning with: "what does CROSSOVERS sound like?".

Made by Colton Kempf
Featuring Tam Lin & Jessica Beechey

link to published piece, including an essay I wrote about making the work

Beatriz - Beatriz Moura is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Lisbon, Portugal. We spent a weekend in December 2023 documenting her studio practice.

Cinematography by Iso Attrill
Sound & Sound by Colton Kempf
Produced by SparkBoom Productions

Video Hum: What Role Does Sound Play in Early Video Art’s Promotion of the Not-self? - an experimental video essay exploring the role of sound in early video art. The video essay demonstrates how the video hum transcends its technological origins to become a unifying force within the medium.

Made by Colton Kempf

link to published piece

Audiovisual Techniques for Scoring Home Movies - a collection of work I made for my MA in Music: Audiovisual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. three of the eighteen vidoes are shown below.

“Playing with one’s past by scoring it makes fertile ground for musical mining, forging links between self and culture; convention and experimentation; past and present. Thrust toward memories that I don't remember, I confront a self that is familiar but not absolute, and always in flux. Through remixing the recorded past and manipulating my mediated image, I have attempted to loosen an identification with my own projection and to recapture a childhood through my own eyes/ears. It is the intermedial nature of the ‘music video' that finds resonance with this project, a composite of my ongoing process of “auto-sampling.””

Words by Colton Kempf
Made by Colton Kempf aka GEORGE

link for all eighteen “audiovisual portraits”

The Things You Do - an object of love and loss and hope, exploring what a music video can be...Just as partners (de)serve each other with love, so do sound and image. Just as couples-therapy attempts cohesion of persons, so does the music video attempt cohesion of media. The goal, as in marriage, is to become one, single unit. However beautiful they are on their own, together they are even better. For beauty seeks harmony...

link to published piece

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