LIMITED ENGAGEMENT (DEC ONLY): “Us In Octaves”

Written By Michael Workman

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LIMITED ENGAGEMENT (DEC ONLY)

Description
In a hyper color summer nightmare, two lovers are haunted by their last act of love: saying goodbye. Us In Octaves is an official two part narrative music video for veteran producer Caural and told through an all Womxn & Non-Binary cast.

Runtime: 8 minutes, 46 seconds
Best Viewed: Any Screen / Cinema Presentation / Projection

Director Biography - Alex Mastoon
From her childhood in South Florida creating worlds in spiral notebooks - inspired by the glow of early MTV - Alex Mastoon began shooting skate videos in Brooklyn, precariously wielding a clunky Dell laptop as her camera. Graduating to Set Decoration and Art Direction on indie features and shorts in Chicago, her talents got her hired in art departments for various commercials, and Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story; experimentations with video art led to blockbuster and commercial Production Management for companies like Nike, and directors such as Zack Snyder & Michael Bay.

Once in Los Angeles, she collaborated with burgeoning artists to produce live streaming content for Red Bull Music Academy that broke the internet. And with downtime at a popular post house in Hollywood, she soon fused her unique inspirations to write and direct her debut short, Word Is Bond: a day in the life of a closeted rapper in 90s LA. Through close collaboration with LGBTQ rappers of color who lent the necessary authenticity to the struggle her film highlights, this sonic & visual poem about homophobia in 90s Hip Hop debuted at Outfest Fusion at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. It has since received awards and nominations at screenings throughout Europe, North America, and Japan.

Alex now spends her time running her own production company with her husband and producing partner, Zachary Mastoon called "Alilfilm Pictures". Together they are busy developing, directing, and writing films, commercials, and music videos between NYC, LA and Spain working alongside innovative artists, dancers, and musicians.

Director Statement
Believe in ghosts and set them free.

Credits & Specifications
Alex Mastoon, (Writer, Director, Producer)
Zachary Mastoon, (Producer, Music)
Jaan Kristjan Utno, (Cinematography)

Key Cast
Madison Wada, (Lover 1)
Robyn Ayers, (Lover 2)

Completion Date: March 29, 2023
Production Budget: 8,000 USD
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Shooting Format: Digital
Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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