Clarke Smith

Lifelong filmmaker

<p>I've been making films since 1985, unless you consider that I started experimenting with clay animation as far back as 1979, when my parents bought me a little super 8 camera that could do frame by frame shooting.&nbsp; When it was time to start college, I began studying film, television and radio.&nbsp; While taking a class called Intro to Video Production in '85, I became hooked. We had to create 5 videos in the semester.</p> <p>All my classmates were making interviews and talking heads and (to my mind) really boring news type stuff.&nbsp; Of course, thats's what the class was designed for.&nbsp; But here is where I take a meaure of pride in being ahead of my time. I set out to start making short films, little horror spoofs and sci-fi mini-epics.</p> <p>Nowadays, it is entirey commonplace, and everyone on youtube is a filmmaker. At any rate, I continued taking these type of classes, normally geared to prepare graduates for careers in the local TV news studios doing news stories for the 10 o'clock news. But I was using them to make narrative films because I couldn't afford to use real film.</p> <p>After creating a number of short films (then shot on simple VHS camcorders), which I am still proud of, I finally did take some classes in 16mm film production.&nbsp; But after that, it was back to using video, and I got better and better at shooting in a filmic style, and getting video to look as close to film as possible.</p> <p>Post-graduation, I've now made 17 short films, a few music videos, and a feature film called <a href="http://www.timeaxismedia.com/theetherealplanemovie/" target="_blank">The Ethereal Plane</a>). My feature has had much success in film festivals (winner at the Big MiniDV Film Festival) and foreign distribution though my (<a href="http://www.bifrostdistribution.com/timeaxismedia/etherealplane.html" target="_blank">sales agent</a><a href="&quot;http:/www.timeaxismedia.com/theetherealplanemovie/&lt;The" target="_blank">).</a></p> <p>But enough about that movie.&nbsp; Since then, I made a few more shorts (like <a href="http://www.timeaxismedia.com/shuttingdown/" target="_blank">Shutting Down</a>) and have written an ambitious ghost feature called Wandering Shadows (teaser site: <a href="http://www.timeaxismedia.com/wanderingshadowsmovie/" target="_blank">here</a>). To get the ball rolling on this project, I have decided to start out shooting a long flashback scene in the movie.&nbsp; What's cool about it, is that the flashback can stand alone as its own little short film.&nbsp; Is it this short film ("Crazy&nbsp; Joe") that I am attempting to fund here on Indid GoGo.</p> <p>Please check out my website for more info about me and my work!</p>

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