Fessenden with GEP alums Ti West and Jacob Jaffke, trying to maintain order.

GEP composer (BENEATH, DEPRAVED, BLACKOUT, WHITE TRASH, WILD RIDE) interviewed in Little Black Book:

Thinking in Sound: Will Bates on Searching for the ‘Eureka Moment’

LBB> Who are your musical or audio heroes and why?

Will> When I was 6 years old I sang the entire score of Star Wars to my parents. They promptly went out and bought me a violin which I then tortured them with until I was given a saxophone. So John Williams has a lot to answer for. When I first understood that one person had written all those melodies I was humming I realised that’s what I wanted to be when I grew up.

The first record I bought was Ennio Morricone’s score to The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. It’s become so ingrained in our pop culture, but to imagine that one person could combine all those colours and have them actually make sense is still amazing to me.

I adore Miles Davis. His constant re-invention, his use of negative space, his collaborations with Gil Evans are a huge inspiration. Again, all those amazing colours. Vangelis’ score to Bladerunner started an obsession with analogue synths, as well as listening to a lot of early Prodigy records and other house and techno of the late 90s that left its mark on me.

LBB> And when it comes to your particular field, whether sound design or composing, are there any particular ideas or pioneers that you go back to frequently or who really influence your thinking about the work you do?

Will> My wife is a painter. And she shares this work ethic from Francis Bacon, that there is no true lightening bolt of inspiration. That moment only comes from regular work, and honing the craft through discipline is a route to true creativity. I think Brian Eno has a similar work ethic. And it doesn’t mean it can’t be fun and deeply rewarding, but I try to structure my work days with a similar attitude. 

Read full article at Little Black Book

Good Luck Glenn. Give it Loads!

I Crawl Home was a performance piece by Robert O Leaver who crawled on hands and knees up Broadway in Manhattan from Wall Street to Washington Heights, 10 blocks a day over the course of 8 months. Glass Eye Pix was there to document.

The last crawl took place on 6.12.14 and was videoed by wing man Larry Fessenden and on second camera, Jack Fessenden. This time-base endurance piece started on Halloween 2013, and brings to mind Fessenden’s early collaborations with performance artists such as The Impact Addict, Heather Woodbury and Alien Comic in the 1980s. Long live the arts.

Check out the videos, written testimonials and more at Icrawlhome.com

While on hold with a loan collector Cassandra Quinlin’s consciousness becomes untethered from her body and reemerges in another part of her life – where she helps a man recover his memories from a postsurgical amnesic haze.

Mission Statement 
Many of us exist in a twilight state between past and present – powerful memories threaten to engulf us and we must fight our way back. By rendering this interior voyage in its true cosmic vastness I hope reawaken the audience’s appreciation for the beauty and terror hidden in the everyday.

READ MORE at Seed & Spark

Join Glass Eye Pix in producing this ambitious short by GEP long-time collaborator and artisan (animator THE PAST INSIDE THE PRESENT, BLACKOUT; cinematographer LIKE ME, THE RANGER, DEPRAVED, SIZE UP, THE EGG AND THE HATCHET; vfx STRAY BULLETS, FOXHOLE, CRUMB CATCHER)

I’ve been on a bit of a Larry Fessenden kick lately either intentionally or by circumstance. I really wanted to talk about the movie Late Phases which has a cameo from the man and his name in the produced by section. This led to one of our favorites in Danielle Harris wishing that more people knew about a movie she did called Stake Land. While this had a six degrees of separation angle attached to it with Late Phases star Nick Damichi also starring and writing Stake Land, it also brought back Fessenden in his comfortable producer role, oh and another cameo. We’ve gone down another rabbit hole and heard from the man himself that The Last Winter (watch it HERE) is a movie of his that he wishes had been seen by more people. This movie see’s Larry in not only his producing and cameo roles that he is known for but also in the hats of Director, Writer, and Editor. We here at JoBlo Horror Originals happen to agree with the man that The Last Winter in one of the Best Horror Movies You Never Saw.

Read full article at JoBlo.com or watch the video essay above!

CUT & RUN, the newest short flick penned & directed by former Glass Eye Intern Luke LeCount, comes to Arrow Video Player this June. Starring GEP pal Rigo Garay (BLACKOUT, CRUMB CATCHER), cinematography by Sean Myrick Sellers, music by Garren Reach aka Blood Handsome, produced by Ori Manahan, edited by Jordan Yagiello.

Watch the June on ARROW trailer, featuring Cut & Run.

From Arrow: Featuring a witchy new Cult film, the blood-splattered new restoration of a slasher classic, a fun foursome of action and shenanigans from Nico Mastorakis, and the new series of addictive and immense gangster epic Gomorrah. Plus, there are incredible short films featuring giallo, under-pressure crime, ouija boards, and even navel fetishes!

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“as a means of delivering a message in a very personalized way,
that makes them interesting but I think may turn some people off”

In this episode of the American Cinematographer Podcast, cinematographer Collin Brazie and writer/director/producer Larry Fessenden talk about their work on the feature film Blackout, starring Alex Hurt as Charlie, a tortured man with a dark secret — he’s a werewolf — and he might be the only one who can put an end to the random acts of violence plaguing the idyllic hamlet of Talbot Falls.

Listen to the discussion with Iain Marcks