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welcome to the portfolio of christopher michael beer.
i write, scribble, photograph, and ponder.
let me know if there's something you'd like to see or read
as you can see, things are in the midst of a touch up.
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''everything i've loved and lost has been within these walls''
35mm and 120mm photography.
my filmic intent: The F Stop Series.
The F Stop Series is a sequence of independent digital movies and film projects that play with the perception of their respective mediums during the digital revolution.
In the crafting of these movies, the most influence is drawn from Baroque philosophy; in that, the story will exist within metaphor to exhume the psychological suffering of Man.
Ideals of Romanticism, which emphasizes intuition, imagination, and feeling, are also key.
I also derive influence from the 'wabi-sabi' and 'mono no aware' concepts as stipulated in Remodernism.
The F Stop Series bases itself around a single outlying concept: one must begin to think of the camera as not a simple recorder of event but as an aperture to interior movement. There is a two-handed approach to this. On one hand is the concept's direct relationship between the cinema and the spectator; the movie acts simply as a middleman between the enlightenment (or illumination of thought that may be achieved), and the audience member. This enlightenment may occur based on the arousal of thought during the viewing of the movie, or by simple emotive reaction. On the other hand is the concepts execution within the movie itself: the action of the movie, as it were, is not in fact acted upon screen in an explicit way, but takes place below the surface of the frame; that is to say, the story arc is completely contingent on the thoughts, realizations, inner conflicts, or motivations of the characters. This aperture also relates to Peter Wollens concept of an open aperture film; a film that is not self contained, and holds many real world references or breaks the fourth wall, thereby disrupting the spoon feeding of the audience common with ordinary cinema.
Because there is such close concentration on the interior, the F Stop Series movies are almost exclusively reliant on the mental work of the audience, and are more closely related to visual essays than narrative films.
The goal of the F Stop Series is to bring about a return to intellectualized spectatorship in cinema; to inspire discussion, provoke thought, stir dialectics, and above all to arouse aesthetic catharsis.
3 basic ideas:
-[enlightenment of audience by thought or emotion]
-[story arc is internalized within the characters]
-[disruption of consumptive spectatorship]
don't hesitate to send an email.
if you include a fun trinket, i'll more than likely respond.
if you want a print, dvd, or what-have-you, be sure to let me know.
check out some friends___
Phil Elv(e)rum / Mount Eerie
Andrea Johnson
Matt Reynolds Film/Animation
Media Neads
corporate stuff.
Coborns - Audio Recorder and Sound Editor for radio spots
Toll Brothers - Audio Recorder for national commercials
NPR/American Public Media - Contributing Editor for Future of News Conference
MPLS/St.Paul INTL Film Fest - as a screener and critic
UofM - as panel speaker on filmmaking in a foreign setting
live performances.
during my stay in Prague.
"Phantasmagore" - as Continuity and P.A.
"Nitka" - as 2nd Asst. Director
"Orpheus" - as Audio Recorder
Medicine Show the Opera by Carolyn Elerding
at the U of M.
Bedroom Eyes by Justin Leaf .
at the Bryant Lake Bowl and Jungle Theatre
Canon Chorus
400 Bar performance
student work, et al.
"The Pale Horse" - as Cinematographer
"all kinds of cRazy" - as Composer
"anthill" - Cinematographer and Editor
"Final Spin" - as Composer
"Fall Into Me" - P.A. and B unit camera
i'll make links soon.
music on/off
