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Chris Cullari |
Emerson College
Massachusetts
Graduation Date: 2009
Greetings, ladies and gents, boys and girls, femme fatales and madmen alike--thanks for stopping by! To those of you who voted and supported me the whole way through the BFOC competition, I cannot thank you enough.
If you're interested in short films, make sure to check out the first short that I wrote and directed, "The House on Waltonville Road." It's a creepy little horror film we shot shot on Super16 and video. If you dig that and want a little change of pace try "Detour," a project I recently wrote and directed on 35mm. It's a vicious little comedy drama about love, marriage and the American family.
If music videos are your thing, my suggestion is to start with the first video I ever made, the film-noir inspired video for "Murder!" by Settle, who recently joined the Epitaph Records family as winners of MTVu/Epitaph's "Best Music on Campus" contest. What you'll see is the result of 400 well spent dollars, and a lot of hard work from a dedicated crew.
From there, it's a tough call. You could try the synth-core antics of The Appreciation Post that the Boston Herald called "three minutes of orchestrated hilarity," or the heart-on-sleeve pop-rock of Holiday Parade that my mom called "Aww! That was cute!" Either way, you shouldn't leave without watching the video for Zac Clark's "Amelia" and coming up with your own quotable description for it. Me, I like "ballin'," but I've head "kickin'," and "rad," also used as appropriate adjectives.
Finally, if you want to see the video that won me nothing but a broken hard drive and shattered dreams...well...that'd be the Modest Mouse one. That thing was made with no crew, money, or sleep and (besides the hard drive) broke my mother's patience and almost my right knee, but it exists, so enjoy it!
As always, there's more on the way from me, so stay tuned! If you like what you see, check out the bands and drop me a line on here, myspace.com/chriscullari, or by email at chris.cullari@gmail.com.
Thanks!
Chris
Starting with a string of films that some revisionist critics are now calling "arguably the most important movies ever shot on VHS by a third grader using a cast comprised entirely of action figures and plastic tree frogs," my career in "the biz" immediately positioned me to move on to bigger and better things.
Like shooting my movies on VHS...with people.
Directing people turned out to be a much greater challenge than I could have imagined--but proved to be a good deal of fun once I figured out I couldn't tie them to large fireworks the way I could action figures. From this point on, my passion for movie making never wained. Upon reaching the 5th grade, I did take a short hiatus to experience the joys of growing up in a small town. For the inquisitive, those joys included boredom, restlessness and torment at the hands of my more socially advanced peers.
Needless to say, I immediately went back to movie making.
Throughout middle school and high school, my passion for the craft grew by leaps and bounds, so I did what any burgeoning 17 year old film maker wannabe would do: stop making movies, learn to drum, and join a band. When that quickly fizzled, I crawled back to my main sugar mama, movies, and begged her to take me back. She did, and I'm now at Emerson College in Boston, pursuing a legitimate career in "the biz."
Life, music, Goosebumps, Dave Barry, J. Raite, Stephen King, Bill Watterson, Rod Serling, David Cross, the Loch Ness Monster, Weezer's "Blue Album," A. Lawrence, The X Files, my friends, George Carlin, and chocolate covered espresso beans.
Oh, and directors?
The Big Guns: Spielberg, Romero, Hitchc**k (That's ridiculous...it automatically censors "Hitchc**k"? Huh. Guess it does...), Gilliam, Carpenter, Scorsese, Fincher, del Toro, The Wachowskis, The Coen Brothers
The Equally Important, If Not More-So, Rest: Lloyd Kaufman, Edgar Wright, James Gunn, Neil Marshall, Scott Glosserman, Lance Weiler
The full list could break the internet, so let's leave it at this: if it is comprised of 24 frames per second, passion, and at least a pinch of intelligence or purpose, you can probably count me in.
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Ian
5/17 6:22 PM
It's great and the song is by my Favorite band =D
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Armeni
4/25 5:10 PM
Hey, This looks great. I like your tour of your work. Congrats.
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Matthew
4/24 11:18 AM
the first 15 seconds of holiday parade are so darn catchy. keeps me coming back... also when do i get to see what i'm sure is a rousing conclusion to mr. bright's latest project?
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Jasmin
4/23 10:33 PM
"inferiority of your work"??? what are you talking about? you rock!
-jasmin
(co-nominee)
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