Day Museum Film Festival - Church of Video

Huh.. That went surprisingly well! Sam Hall and I have been working on a shadow puppet music video for the past year. We’re both not necessarily gifted crafters but we put our heads down and cut cardboard, glued popsicle sticks and tried to string together all the bits. Honestly we probably made it way harder than it needed to be, but we are the type to learn by doing! It’s a strange little creation, filmed entirely with a VHS Camcorder everything is hand made and physical EXCEPT one very fun sequence towards the end of the video where Sam flexed their lo-fi 3D animating skills. After some months of slaving away we surprisingly completed it and even liked it. we wanted to celebrate, and what better way to do that then with a Film festival showcasing all kinds of weird experimental music videos. Church of Video was born!

What started out as a simple showcase of a few projects turned into a full event. We rented out a Leaven Church in North Portland, purchased everyone robes, brought mixed drinks and popcorn, created a TV Mannequin (also dressed in robes), got our good friend Jaime Lastimosa on board and pulled together one solid hour of music based video content. Following the showing we had people stick around to film a fun and trippy / comedy video about our video cult. Look for that video sometime 2024. This was such a fun event to set up and I’m so grateful to everyone for showing up and getting into the spirit of the day. Really makes me want to do another like it, especially since music video festivals like this one are quite rare. Thank you again to everyone who came out and supported us!