The Monument's Music

I've found an incredible presence of creative minds online, but of all the sites I frequent, Something Awful has to be one of the most supportive and inspiring. Their forums boast an impressive community of painters, writers, musicians, filmmakers, sculptors, etc.

When I decided that the best route for The Monument was to use music, I recalled hearing a few tracks from a musician on Something Awful that I really felt captured the sense of emptiness in our short.

Disparition, a solo project, specializes in ambient electronic pieces that draw their influences from several genres including industrial, experimental, and folk. The tracks we used in the film were from the album "1989", an album that explores the Romanian Revolution.

Jon Bernstein, the man behind Disparition, was immensely generous lending his music to the film free of charge. What's more impressive is that Jon has all of his albums available on his website for free.

I thought I would take the opportunity to share with you some of Jon's music. I'd also like to thank Jon for helping us out in making this film have a feel we'd certainly struggle to accomplish without his talents.

You can download Disparition's music and learn more about Jon at his website.

First Theater Showing Today

The Monument will be shown in its first theater at 1:30PM today at the Newark Film Festival. I don't expect many people will be coming out to the movies today, but I'll be there along with some other filmmakers from Delaware. The Monument is being shown along with six other student films. One of the films being shown is directed by a good friend of mine, Andrew Czudak, whose editing know-how greatly surpasses mine.



While I'm excited to see something I made on a movie screen, I'm also anxious to put plans into motion for my next project. I've considered all of the work we put into The Monument, and while I certainly consider the project a success there are numerous things I wish I could have done differently. Sound is probably my largest issue with the film--something I plan to considerably tune for my next project.

As is expected, we'll also be running a Kickstarter fund to raise money for this second short. That's something else that will be tweaked. I'm also setting aside money to afford my own Macbook Pro and editing software so that I can work on the next project at home.

I hope to launch the project within the next month.