Ezra's Epitaph

A project a made in 2006 at Bard College. I just posted it to Vimeo. An experimental narrative short epic musical integrating live action, miniatures and stop motion animation.

Ezra's Epitaph from Ian Samuels on Vimeo.

German TV Making of The Neverending Story 1984

Just thought some of this practical work was fascinating. Particularly part 4.

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Imagined Spaces/Imagined Lives Performance this weekend

This weekend I'll be performing in a wacky puppet production. Here's the info:

Imagined Spaces/ Imagined Lives is a series of collaborations between architects and puppet theater artists. Ephemeral citizens inhabit impossible and impractical inventions. Building codes and zoning laws are dispensed with. Spacial hallucinations are investigated and architectural archeology is unearthed. These collaborations take the form of topographical maps, walking tours, puppet shows, installations and animated architectural models.

PART I
Friday, June 5 - Sunday, June 7th at 8PM

Each night will begin at The Manual Archives and conclude a short distance away at Materials and Applications:
3320 W Sunset Boulevard LA, CA 90026-------->1619 Silver Lake Blvd. LA, CA 90026


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EXHIBIT A
by Tom Pejic, Monica Oller, Katie Shook and Susan Simpson with Marc Nimoy

8 pm, at Manual Archives



NAME/HERE: a guided walking tour
by DanRae Wilson and Julia Hiser

8:30 pm, starting at Manual Archives and ending at Materials and Applications




AN EXCITED PLASMA EVENT, ONE DAY ON TILAPIA ISLAND; THE END
by Yelena Zhelezov, Oliver Hess
performed by Ian Samuels, Zoe Aja Moore and Kyle Leeser

9 pm, at Materials and Applications



For Tickets and More Information go to www.manualarchives.org

Liquid

Nancy and the Dapper Toad Stills

Some stills from the short I'm working on.

Memories

Taken a year ago at Jay M. Berman's Family Dentistry after the new lettering was put up in the windows.

Nodes

Weird pulsing clay orbs. I'm into the environment. This either takes place inside my indecisive mind. Or its the feeling inside the airport. Or both.