Overview: Iamstatic was approached by JV Productions to create the opening titles sequence and in-show graphics package for History Television and Animal Planets new reality adventure show CURSE OF THE FROZEN GOLD. Using a mix of shot footage, archival images, maps and CG environments, we set out to create an opening title sequence and visual language that captured the strange mystery and high stakes danger that has been historically associated with hunt for Slumach’s lost mine. In 1891 a Native man named Slumach was hanged in New Westminster for murdering a man called Louis Bee. The Myth links Slumach to the treasure known as Slumach´s Gold. On the gallows he cursed the mine so that once he died, the gold would be lost forever. The show follows a group of adventurers and gold experts who have gathered to explore the rugged wilderness for the cursed gold. Credits: Director: IAMSTATIC Creative Director: Ron Gervais / Dave Greene Production Company: TOPIX Lighting & Rendering: Dave Greene Lighting, Rendering & Compositing: Abdul Mohamud Modeling, Texturing & Rendering: Dave Greene & Chris Crozier Generalist: Ronak Shah Editor: Ron Gervais Compositors: Ron Gervais, Dave Greene Senior Producer: Cathy Jefferies Client: JV Productions Network: Animal Planet / History Channel Audio/Music: Pirate Toronto

• published: 19 Feb 2015
• views: 0

About 8 years ago a friend of mine lent me a ski DVD he had just bought in the summer. I had just moved from Hong Kong to England and even though I had been skiing for 14 years I didn't know that ski DVD's existed! The name of the movie was "The Tangerine Dream" and was the catalyst for my ski movie addiction and travelling the world in search of an adventure. Amongst the many mind boggling segments, the one that stood out to me the most was when Micah Black, Dash Longe and co visited Gulmarg, India. The place looked wild, the people looked friendly and on top of all that, the snow looked out of this world! And this February, 8 years later, my brother, a group of friends and myself were on a plane and heading to this dream destination. This video is a close a reflection to my trip as I could make. Gulmarg wasn't having the best snow year, in fact the 10 days I was there were the first skiable days of the season so we got super lucky. Despite this, the trip was all time and you can ready the full write up of the trip here: https://robin-lee.squarespace.com/blog/gulmarg/17/2/2015 Hope you all enjoy! Website: www.robinleevisuals.com Facebook: facebook.com/robinleevisuals Instagram: instagram.com/robintlee

• published: 17 Feb 2015
• views: 4768

‪Student Oscar winning short film. "Hypnotic, beautiful, totally brave. The year's best short film." - FilmThreat

 Please consider joining my mailing list at AriGoldFilms.com/sayhi and follow me on Twitter/Vine/Instagram at @AriGold. Thanks! When I was twenty, my mother was killed in a helicopter crash with rock music promoter Bill Graham, whom she had recently begun dating after a nearly two-decades courtship. To many rock musicians and fans, Graham was a god; to my brother, my sister, and me, who hardly knew him, it seemed his death was so big it just took our mother with it. 

"Helicopter" is a recreation of the emotional aftermath of sudden loss. Nothing could have prepared me for the loss of the person who knew me better than anyone in the world. Nothing could have prepared me for the absurdity of a "famous" death. 

My sister Nina performed the answering-machine voice of our mother, and my twin brother Ethan composed the music for the film, but, not wanting a documentary, I used friends of mine to play the three of us on film. The movie combines re-enacted scenes--and a few photos and videos from reality--with several kinds of animation which are close to how I actually experienced the truth. I made "Helicopter" with so many different unreal elements in order to draw a chalk circle around a very personal event, in the hopes that by the last frame of the film, a viewer sees through the circle to his or her own life. I wasn't interested in presenting objective reality--I preferred the subjective reality of a young man, still wanting to talk to his mother about romantic troubles, who suddenly finds that his mother no longer exists. This is the reality of a person trying to comprehend death.

Finally, the film is about the way the mind can filter through any cacophony to find life's core, the one thing that matters: love.

 "Writer-director Ari Gold's 21-minute short film, HELICOPTER, recounts in impressionistic detail the aftermath of his mother Melissa's death in the helicopter crash that also killed her boyfriend, promoter Bill Graham. The film has been making an uncommon stir at festivals everywhere, and with good reason--it's an effulgent burst of heartbreak. Employing a narrative pastiche that includes acted vignettes, a black-and-white animated re-creation of the crash itself, poignant answering-machine voice-over and personal photos, Gold deftly conveys the fractured nature of loss: how memory, despair, indignation and even elation surge and recede in the mourning mind." - L.A. Weekly (Pick)
 Music by ‪http://EthanGold.com‬ Follow the director: ‪http://Twitter.com/AriGold‬
 Watch other films and contact director: ‪http://AriGoldFilms.com‬
 Join Ari's charity rebuilding music education for kids: ‪http://PowerSavesTheMusic.com‬

• published: 15 Feb 2012
• views: 8766

Overview: Iamstatic was approached by JV Productions to create the opening titles sequence and in-show graphics package for History Television and Animal Planets new reality adventure show CURSE OF THE FROZEN GOLD. Using a mix of shot footage, archival images, maps and CG environments, we set out to create an opening title sequence and visual language that captured the strange mystery and high stakes danger that has been historically associated with hunt for Slumach’s lost mine. In 1891 a Native man named Slumach was hanged in New Westminster for murdering a man called Louis Bee. The Myth links Slumach to the treasure known as Slumach´s Gold. On the gallows he cursed the mine so that once he died, the gold would be lost forever. The show follows a group of adventurers and gold experts who have gathered to explore the rugged wilderness for the cursed gold. Credits: Director: IAMSTATIC Creative Director: Ron Gervais / Dave Greene Production Company: TOPIX Lighting & Rendering: Dave Greene Lighting, Rendering & Compositing: Abdul Mohamud Modeling, Texturing & Rendering: Dave Greene & Chris Crozier Generalist: Ronak Shah Editor: Ron Gervais Compositors: Ron Gervais, Dave Greene Senior Producer: Cathy Jefferies Client: JV Productions Network: Animal Planet / History Channel Audio/Music: Pirate Toronto

• published: 19 Feb 2015
• views: 0

About 8 years ago a friend of mine lent me a ski DVD he had just bought in the summer. I had just moved from Hong Kong to England and even though I had been skiing for 14 years I didn't know that ski DVD's existed! The name of the movie was "The Tangerine Dream" and was the catalyst for my ski movie addiction and travelling the world in search of an adventure. Amongst the many mind boggling segments, the one that stood out to me the most was when Micah Black, Dash Longe and co visited Gulmarg, India. The place looked wild, the people looked friendly and on top of all that, the snow looked out of this world! And this February, 8 years later, my brother, a group of friends and myself were on a plane and heading to this dream destination. This video is a close a reflection to my trip as I could make. Gulmarg wasn't having the best snow year, in fact the 10 days I was there were the first skiable days of the season so we got super lucky. Despite this, the trip was all time and you can ready the full write up of the trip here: https://robin-lee.squarespace.com/blog/gulmarg/17/2/2015 Hope you all enjoy! Website: www.robinleevisuals.com Facebook: facebook.com/robinleevisuals Instagram: instagram.com/robintlee

• published: 17 Feb 2015
• views: 4768

‪Student Oscar winning short film. "Hypnotic, beautiful, totally brave. The year's best short film." - FilmThreat

 Please consider joining my mailing list at AriGoldFilms.com/sayhi and follow me on Twitter/Vine/Instagram at @AriGold. Thanks! When I was twenty, my mother was killed in a helicopter crash with rock music promoter Bill Graham, whom she had recently begun dating after a nearly two-decades courtship. To many rock musicians and fans, Graham was a god; to my brother, my sister, and me, who hardly knew him, it seemed his death was so big it just took our mother with it. 

"Helicopter" is a recreation of the emotional aftermath of sudden loss. Nothing could have prepared me for the loss of the person who knew me better than anyone in the world. Nothing could have prepared me for the absurdity of a "famous" death. 

My sister Nina performed the answering-machine voice of our mother, and my twin brother Ethan composed the music for the film, but, not wanting a documentary, I used friends of mine to play the three of us on film. The movie combines re-enacted scenes--and a few photos and videos from reality--with several kinds of animation which are close to how I actually experienced the truth. I made "Helicopter" with so many different unreal elements in order to draw a chalk circle around a very personal event, in the hopes that by the last frame of the film, a viewer sees through the circle to his or her own life. I wasn't interested in presenting objective reality--I preferred the subjective reality of a young man, still wanting to talk to his mother about romantic troubles, who suddenly finds that his mother no longer exists. This is the reality of a person trying to comprehend death.

Finally, the film is about the way the mind can filter through any cacophony to find life's core, the one thing that matters: love.

 "Writer-director Ari Gold's 21-minute short film, HELICOPTER, recounts in impressionistic detail the aftermath of his mother Melissa's death in the helicopter crash that also killed her boyfriend, promoter Bill Graham. The film has been making an uncommon stir at festivals everywhere, and with good reason--it's an effulgent burst of heartbreak. Employing a narrative pastiche that includes acted vignettes, a black-and-white animated re-creation of the crash itself, poignant answering-machine voice-over and personal photos, Gold deftly conveys the fractured nature of loss: how memory, despair, indignation and even elation surge and recede in the mourning mind." - L.A. Weekly (Pick)
 Music by ‪http://EthanGold.com‬ Follow the director: ‪http://Twitter.com/AriGold‬
 Watch other films and contact director: ‪http://AriGoldFilms.com‬
 Join Ari's charity rebuilding music education for kids: ‪http://PowerSavesTheMusic.com‬

• published: 15 Feb 2012
• views: 8766