
'Luna' -
1;235 feature film, reprising Stephanie Leonidas,
with Ben Daniels, Michael Maloney and Dervla Kerwan
filmed in full 4:4:4 uncompressed digital with two ARRI D-20 cameras
into Sony SRW1 field recorders for a d-cinema release 2010
film presented by Neil Gaiman - Exec producers
Keith Evans, Keith Griffiths - producer Simon Moorhead
screenplay by Allen Spiegel and Dave McKean, directed by Dave McKean
'Bel Air' - Starfish Productions
Short 15min film, originated on two HD
cameras, filmed five miles out in the North sea with an immersible
housing, plus a polecam crane arm, figrig and handheld back on land, featuring Chloe Sirene, Milan Alexander, Nirmala Martis – directed by
Karen Fraser - premiered July 2009
'Mirrormask' - The Jim Henson Company for Columbia-Tristar/Sony
Pictures
(released US 30/09/05 by Samuel Goldwyn,
1;1:85 feature film, written by Neil Gaiman
& Dave McKean, with Stephanie Leonidas, Jason
Barry, Gina McKee, Rob Brydon, Dora Bryan,
and voices and essences of Stephen Fry, Robert Lewellyn
and Lenny Henry
Executive producers Lisa Henson, Mike Polis & Martin Baker; producer
Simon
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'Daedalus Hex' - Magic Lantern Productions for BBC
Interactive drama, filmed on a build at Twickenham studios, to feature
interstitial, fully-interactive playable computer games for the BBC Switch
early teens audience incentive - featuring Fflur Medi Owen, Chris Mack, Zara
Tempest-Walters
produced by Mike Ogden, directed by Rupert Harris
'Patient 17' -
Patient 17 Productions ltd
microbudget indie feature, filmed tapeless
with a pair of Sony XDCAM EX-3 HD cameras from Sony Broadcast
'Dawn' - Hourglass Studio
A shoot-it-quick exercise as Dave McKean makes a short just for fun,
filmed digitally with my patented glass in-camera distortion effects system
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Mediaeval Baebes - 'Live dvd' - Coverdrive Records
supervise and operate multi-camera coverage of the girls doing their
thing
Adobe Project – 'The Particle Tarot' - Hourglass Studio/Saatchi
&
reprise of an earlier ‘Kodak’ project of
a fictionalised photoshoot
featuring front-end visual effects
Renata Jonscher -
classical music video for the Polish mezzo soprano, filmed widescreen digibeta & Sony Z-1
'Lestat' - Warner Bros theatre ventures
4 short live-action sequences for projection during Elton John’s
all-too-briefly lived Broadway musical at the Palace Theatre, New York
filmed both regular, blue-screen and on steadicam
with the first commercial application for a pre-production Arri
D-20 full-height digital camera, feeding into a Sony SRW1 field recorder deck
show itself directed by Robert Jess Roth, featuring Hugh Panaro and Carolee Carmello- film segments directed by Dave McKean
'Lullabelle' - Fable Factory Films
s16mm short, (rt 14mins) filmed in 1;1:78 with
a cast of Jackie Morrison, Michael Kirk, Su Pollard and Christopher Biggins
produced and directed by Gemma Page & Tanja Ludyga
'Signal To Noise' -
Illuminations Films with the
participation of The Film Council
Pilot project as development towards a full-length feature film of a
1996 BBC R3 play, itself derived from their comic novel by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, filmed with 13 simultaneous digital
cameras and super8mm film
produced by Keith Griffiths, directed by Dave McKean
'N[eon]' - Hourglass
Studio
Personal short film (runtime 25mins) shot super16mm for extensive 3D
compositing with Dave’s own super8mm
With Eamonne Collinge,
Eilleen Daly; directed by Dave McKean
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Ghostwatch / 'Echoes of the Past' - BBC Worldwide for BBC America /
12x4min dramatised monologues, 30x10sec stings/inserts, 1x 60min
documentary for TX during a live
ghosthunting
produced by Andrew Mark Sewell directed by Luc Chamberland
'A-Z of Goldfish - an HD
Special' - NHK Enterprises
documentary filmed around the
'Kiss of the Spiderwoman'
-
Unusual circular presentation of pre-filmed digibeta
drama sequences played out as part of live performance,
featuring Adrian Scarborough, Keith Osborn and Sean Dooley; directed by
Philip Franks
'The Week Before' - Hourglass
studio
s16mm short (rt 25mins) describing what God might
have been doing the week before he made the universe;
and is the film that initially attracted the Henson company towards
commissioning ‘Mirrormask’
With Dean Harris playing God, and Eamonne Collinge the devil; directed by Dave McKean
Izzy - 'Una
Furtiva Lagrima'/ 'My Love
is Like a Red, Red Rose' -
Virgin Records
2 x music promos, shot s16mm back-to-back, with heli
aerials + blue screen for 3D composite - directed by Dave McKean
'Shakespeare's Sonnet # 138' - Illuminations for BBC tv
s16mm studio shoot of a 1min film for (ongoing?) BBC2 multiple-director
project; this one by Dave McKean
'Transatlantic Windsurf Race 2000' - SSM Freesports
An Atlantic ocean windsurf attempt from
shot boat-to-boat digibeta, betaSP, a gyrozoom and a bunch of
vx1000’s (which couldn’t hack it)
Buckethead – 'The Ballad of Buckethead' -
music promo for LA guitar artist Buckethead,
designed and directed by Dave McKean; Billboard award nominee
Kodak - 'The Image'- Artemis Communications Ltd for Saatchi
& Saatchi NY
s16mm film shoot (rt 24mins) of 'quasi making
of’ documentary film for Eastman Kodak; directed by Dave McKean
Raindance- 7th film festival title - Raindance
Theatrical trail/title sequence (rt 1min
12secs) filmed 35mm combining live action and 3D animation;
distributed by Warner Bros with a THX soundtrack; directed by Dave
McKean
'The Quintessential Englishman Abroad' -
s16mm documentary (1hr) about a maverick Englishman living the life of
Reilly on an idyllic tropical paradise island
off the
'Ghosts of the Past' - Paul McCartney's
BBC Arena special; (A cam, David Feig),
extensive 16mm shoot over 6 months as McCartney composed
his opera with Carl Davis, featuring Dame Kiri
Te Kanawa, Willard White, Sally Burgess; directed by
Anne Paul
Acacia Tours Promo - Hotshot Productions
Safariing 2,000+ miles across
white-water rafting, helicopter aerials, even a point-of-view bungy jump (never again) - produced by Doug Smith
various music-biz interviews - MTV/ VH-1 production
indulging endless pop star egos and entourage policing and all in all
thoroughly amusing
as director/camera;
'Williams F1 High performance computer' - Lenovo Technology UK Ltd
Design, shoot, composite and cut mainly time-lapse coverage at the
Williams F1 race team wind tunnel # 1 to arrive
at a short video to illustrate Lenovo’s
largest, 8-teraflop computer installation outside of
'Odd Pot' (2005) - 'UFO' (2004) / 'UFO II' (2004) - Converse All-Stars for
finalist/winner, short films/commercials - filmed dvcam
and animated in AE.
Produced by Francesca Prada and John Butler
Andy
award winner
'Tenacious TN56' -
Jubilee Sailing Trust
doing everything- shoot, edit, respond to the committee’s persistent and
vague alterations, on voyage TN56 of the
beautiful tall-ship Tenacious, as a fund-raiser @ the
Mirrormask press release - The
Jim Henson Company
4 min video, hurriedly assembled as the first public preview item, shown
at comicon San Diego to an audience of 5k+
'Ghostwatch - Echoes of the Past' - BBC Worldwide
1 min promotional teaser (see previous entry) for ‘general-purpose
exposure' at MipCom 2002
countries worked in;
Austria,
Belgium, Brunei, Canary islands, (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote), Czech
Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Madeira, Malawi, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania,
Turkey, USA, Zanzibar, Zambia, Zimbabwe