At the moment, due to the poor economy, I am holding off on the projects that involve props and costumes. But I am actively seeking people for a few projects that involve only film - and sometimes lighting.
I need more Femmes Fatales, depicting women from mythology, fiction, and history - I'm particularly looking for a set of triplets but close family resemblance will do for The Sirens or The Furies. I'm also looking to cast the Sternwood sisters, as well as several individuals. I'm open to your ideas for this series also. So far I've completed Pandora, Circe, Irma Vep, Cassandra, and Erato. This project (like all my projects) does not involve any nudity.
.I'm about to start a new series of Terraines Vagues and need people to play various characters from 60s Rock music. I'll need, Sweet Lorraine, Cosmic Charlie, Janis, Leila, and many others. The model will not be recognizable in the pictures. By blurring, shooting out of focus, moving the camera etc, I convert individuals into archetypes. The finished pictures would not be of much use for your portfolio but I can also shoot some sharp, clear (ie normal) shots for your uses.
As a starving artist I can't pay anyone to model for me, except in prints, and of course fame. I do require full releases for all pictures and will use those I like on the Chapel Hill Noir web site.
If you are into movement, like dance or athletics, I would like to do motion studies similar to my Moving Pictures. Some would be daylight shots, others night. As above my particular tastes involve movement and blur, but I will also shoot conventional pictures for your publicity uses. I'm particularly interested in finding a flamenco dancer with costumes, but ballet, jazz, experimental, and even swing are all photogenic. Sorry, country line dancing is out.
If the photography on this site makes you want to learn how to use a camera, I do give lessons, and the price is right. If you are willing to help me by carrying equipment, holding reflectors, modeling, doing make-up, etc, I will teach you everything I know --- and even help you find out things I don't know! There is no nudity involved. No salesman will call. Your only investment will be time. I'm particularly interested in finding someone who is interested in doing some "light painting" or other night activities.
At some point this year I intend to visit a deep water river or estuary port for pictures to complete the Noctonaut chapter entitled Night is a River , which has been put on hold since 9/11/01. If you live near such a port, or even an ocean port, and are willing to do some scouting for me I will come to you. You'll be repaid with pictures, photography lessons, and enough all night diner coffee to keep you awake for weeks.
The final project is on indefinate hold as the props necessary would be costly, however if you are interested in a low budget version, I can work with that - after all Ed Wood never had the funding he needed either.
The project is called Night Full of Noir, and I'm particularly interested in finding people who are willing to play a "role" in these photographs. My current ideas are based on film noir themes, as you might have guessed from the name of this site and the title of the project, but I'm also willing to work on your ideas. I want to produce and direct the shortest movies ever made - one frame each - based on lobby cards and paperback crime novel covers of the 1940s and 50s. Would you like to be the world weary hard boiled detective in This Gun is Mine or I The Bailiff? How about the redhead with the warm green eyes and the cold black heart? Are you the next Bogey or a budding Bacall? Have you always secretly wanted to be a Casper Guttmann? A Canino, or a Joel Cairo? A Velma or a Velda?
Now you can be the detective, or the dame, or the snitch, the colonel's wild daughter, the cop, the gunsel, or the kingpin, the hero or the villain. You can even be the hero AND the villain. If you are into costume, make believe, and make-up you can play every role in the final picture - even the victim!
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