Emery C. Martin

Death, Destruction & The Weather Coming Up Next

Death, Destruction & The Weather Coming Up Next (2006) is an animated short that deals with the structures that surround how the media presents war and death, how people receive and digest the information stream that the media presents, and what that stream is comprised of. It is comprised of live action found news footage that has been edited and then placed into sequential posters that are hung in suburban landscapes. These posters are then photographed and the edited once again to bridge the various spaces and reintroduce the movement from the original news footage; conjoined with audio from the vantage of the camera moving through the space, the space itself, the posters, and sound bytes from the found footage. This creates a hyperreality that places the news physically, in this case war, in our own familiar suburban landscape in order to break down the disconnects that exist between the everyday and world of events that effect people.

Death, Destruction & The Weather Coming Up Next has been screened nationally and internationally with distinction and was nominated in 2007 for a Student Academy Award.

Awards
34th Student Academy Awards National Finalist – Experimental
34th Student Academy Awards Western Regional Winner – Experimental
2nd Place at the 4th Annual Careless Drive-In Film and Video Festival

Screenings
2008 – Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY
2007 – Chinese Taipei Film Archive, Taichung City, Taiwan
2007 Taiwanese International Animation Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2007 Milano Film Festival, “Different American Films,” Milan, Italy
2007 – 34th Student Academy Award National Finalist, Los Angeles, CA
2007 – 4th Annual Careless Drive-In Film and Video Festival, 2nd place, Sylmar, CA
2007 – 34th Student Academy Award Western Regional, Portland, OR
2007 Philadelphia Film Festival: Visions of Persistence, Philadelphia, PA
2006 CalArts Experimental Animation Showcase, Hollywood, CA

Selected Stills

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