VIDEO: Chinese University Hong Kong: 2021
Commissioned by the Santa Monica-based architectural and planning firm Moore Ruble Yudell Architects, this is a presention video for a Master Plan competition for the Chinese University Hong Kong....
View ArticleVIDEO: So What?
A landscape architectural firm shreds three months worth of its waste paper and creates a provocative art installation about sustainability. (Evan Mather, U.S.A., 2007, 6:55) Creative, innovative,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Grangegorman: An Urban Quarter with an Open Future
Commissioned by the Santa Monica-based architectural and planning firm Moore Ruble Yudell Architects, this presention video was created to promote a Master Plan for the Grangegorman Development Agency...
View ArticleVIDEO: Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure
Commissioned by the Santa Monica-based architectural and planning firm Moore Ruble Yudell Architects under the auspices of AHBE Landscape Architects, this short, silent video was created for the...
View ArticleVIDEO: A Necessary Ruin: The Story of Buckminster Fuller and the Union Tank...
[Evan Mather's] riveting new documentary A Necessary Ruin … manages not only to make engineering sexy and preservation politics compelling, but succinctly tells the tale of one of the most tragic...
View ArticleVIDEO: Eagle Rock (Los Angeles) California
Sprawling over hundreds of square miles, Los Angeles is not organized around a central downtown core. It is a city of individual neighborhoods, each with its own distinctive character. This can best...
View ArticleVIDEO: 39-A: Een Reisverhaal Van Eindeloos (A Travel Tale of Interminable)
39-A: Een Reisverhaal Van Eindeloos (A Travel Tale Of Interminable) is an experimental film that challenges and subverts the typical elements of documentaries, thus making us all reflect upon...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Patron Saint of Television
A thirteenth century nun’s deathbed vision is hauntingly relevant to contemporary audiences in this hand-crafted animated telling of the story of Saint Clare of Assisi (1194-1253). (Evan Mather,...
View ArticleVIDEO: A Plea For Modernism
Prior to its destruction in June 2011, the Phillis Wheatley Elementary School served the historic New Orleans African-American neighborhood of Tremé since it opened in 1955. Celebrated worldwide for...
View Article“Three Reasons” aka my Criterion Top 10
I recently came to the painful realization that Criterion would not be calling me up any time soon to inquire about my top 10 films in their collection. Coupled with a recent challenge from The...
View ArticleVIDEO: Telly
Telly is magnificent film that makes the most out of every frame with a beautiful story of a father and his daughter and the impact of a television. – Chris Garcia, Cinequest Animated Shorts Program...
View ArticleHD Super-8s in “39-A”
I recently worked with Pro8mm in Burbank to get all of my old Super-8 films scanned in High Definition. The films were first washed and cleaned, and then scanned using a 2K Spirit Datacine. The...
View ArticleVIDEO: Pavillion Dans Les Arbres
Architectural narrative about the recently-completed Silverwood Lake State Recreation Area Visitors’ Center in California’s San Bernardino Mountains, designed by Los Angeles-based architectural firm...
View ArticleVIDEO: Building A Sustainable Future
Video presentation about a series of sustainable green infrastructure projects at Burbank Water and Power – including photovoltaic parking lot canopies, a green street demonstrating innovative storm...
View ArticleVIDEO: The 110
A time-lapse journey along the historic Arroyo Seco Parkway, the first freeway in California, from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles, is most appropriately scored to a vintage arcade classic. (Evan...
View ArticleVIDEO: 12 Minutes To Vegas
This is an experimental time-lapse video that compresses the 3-1/2 hour drive from Los Angeles, California to Las Vegas, Nevada into 12 minutes. It was shot and edited on July 28, 2012 using an iPhone...
View ArticleVIDEO: I Am An Artist
Three’s a crowd in this imagined romantic mash-up between a Serbian performance artist, her Mon Calamarian ex-partner, and a contemporary Dutch architect – animated with vintage Star Wars action...
View ArticleVIDEO: Westbank To Westbank
This is an experimental time-lapse video that compresses the 80 minute drive from Port Allen, Louisiana to Gretna, Louisiana into 4-1/2 minutes. It was shot and edited in August 2012 using an iPhone...
View ArticleVIDEO: Safe Agua Team
Portrait of the Safe Agua Team from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California – dedicated to co-creating products with residents in the developing world, aimed at eliminating the burden...
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