About Michael Spelman
Just because he was
below your radar doesn’t mean he wasn’t there. Mr Spelman has
been sowing media discord with his sarcasm, non-linear editing skills
and propensity for filing and light typing for about as many years as
fingers are necessary to make two fists.
Working from windowless basement offices, this figurative and literal
puppetmaster distills dissent to burn his effigies of the reviled. His
stopmotion claymation short "Brave New City" skewers the Madison,
Wisconsin city officials, who welcome tax-dollar-sucking
gentrification under the guise of "promoting the arts." In the
half-hour documententary "Sub Mission," Spelman and his collaborators
capture the commaradery of creative protest, while the short "A Battle
for the Status Quo" blurs the line between documentary and
mockumentary. His continued work with the Philadelphia based
olive Dance Theatre has resulted in live video choreography, the short
narrative "83" and a feature length documentary currently in
development. In front of the camera, Spelman discusses trash,
bicycles and over-consumption in "Pedalphiles," a documentary by
Prolefeed Studios founder Brian Standing.
Film/Video
Credits
83 (Director of Photography, Editor)
ToTM Rd (Video Choreography, Projection)
Strung (Theatrical performance Video
Producer/Director, DP, Choreography, Editor)
Point A to Point B (Director, Editor)
ToyBox (Video Choreography, Editor, Projection)
A Battle for the Status Quo (Co-Producer, Co-Director,Editor)
Olive Trailer (Cameras, Co-Editor)
Brave New City (Producer, Director, Editor, model and set design)
Sub-Mission (Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Editor)
Little Black Banner Hanging Hood (Producer, Director
of Photography, Set Design, Co-Editor)
South Beloit (Producer, Director, Editor)
My Best Friend (Producer, Director, Editor)
Hail to the Thief (Cameras)
Bitter Cold (Cameras, Co-Editor)
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