Liftingfaces

This is the first in a series of five volumes, each revealing a couple images from lost film rolls I have had developed. This is a phenomenon we are all familiar with, but it’s still like Christmas Day when you show up to pick up your developed rolls of film from God-knows-when.

Rome (2002)

Here are a pair of double exposures that cropped up on one of my rolls. The images are of Rome, the city wherein my wife and I were married, which makes it sort of tragic, as these are the only two photos that developed on this roll (the rest came out blank).

I think the film must have gotten caught and stopped advancing. Strangely, I have a vague recollection of this happening, almost seven years ago now.

At least the two that did develop are sort of interesting to look at. Maybe there’s a metaphor in the whole thing, but I’m not caffeinated enough to figure it out.

Here is a music video I co-curated with Bran Dougherty-Johnson from PSST!. We came up with the idea of having 7 teams participate in interpreting sections of the song. The results were unexpected and fun to see come together.

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A big thanks to all the participants. Here they are, in order of appearance:

Team 1: Ryan Dunn (me)
Team 2: Paul Cayrol
Team 3: Masayoshi Nakamura + Erik Montovano
Team 4: Ryan Rothermel + Thai Tran
Team 5: Jon Saunders + Cary Janks
Team 6: Caroline Attia
Team 7: Bran Dougherty-Johnson

I shot a commercial. It’s on the television in America. Here it is:

And here are some images from the shoot:

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A book I started, and never finished. I’ll finish it one day. It’s 150 pages complete, though still very first draft-ish. You can view a twenty page sample, if you like.

Here’s an excerpt from a short film I am writing…

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Or watch these two innocents meet their maker.

From the forthcoming video,
“Desperate for Love,”
by Over the Rhine.