Documentaries
SOLUTIONISM
Visually layered in representation, Artivist Designer Matt LeGrand explains how harnessing the power of design can generate lasting, positive change and transformation in our individual lives and in our collective world.
Solutionism (2012). Written, directed and produced by Matt Legrand. Cinematography, editing: Hsiao-Yen Jones.
The Cost
Tellings the stories of 3 seemingly innocent and disparate purchases, this experimental documentary reminds us how even the most simple acts of consumption connect us to devastatingly corrupt financial threads thousands of miles away.
Observations On Seeing
Conveying the multifaceted nature of personal perception and experience, this personal documentary looks back on childhood to bring into focus the reality that often times-
"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are."
— Anais Nin
Narratives
A Picture of Reality
A young girl escapes the boredom of her constrained existence though the Polaroid camera she finds. Taking pictures of what she values most, her imagination and reality begin to break down as she wakes up to the truth of her circumstance.
A Return to War
Following the struggles of Kevin, a young father who returns from the military to his young wife and daughter, this short wrestles with the very personal and real issues parents and citizens alike must search to find the answers to.
Music Videos
Now Time
Melding the surreal, aquatic, and kaleidoscopic, lean back and enjoy this psychedelically reminiscent journey though Balam Acab's electronic chill masterpiece, "Now Time".
Butterfly Culture
Illustrating the experience of internal sameness and external change, this conceptual music video created for the JacM Chillstep Remix of Benjamin Francis Leftwich's "Butterfly Culture" shows us that-
"A grownup is a child with layers on."
— Woody Harrelson
Commercial
VIM Fitness Promo
Fusing the power of strength and the flexibility of peace, this promotional web video created for VIM Fitness, an eco-friendly gym located in Cambridge, MA, portrays the holistic nature of health and well being.
Onein3 Boston Health PSA
Simply and powerfully communicating the later consequences of our current health choices, this contracted PSA made for Onein3boston.com, spreads awareness of the health problems faced by Americans and the preventive solutions available to youth.
Series
Me:We
Illustrating the contrast between the external and the internal, Me:We communicates the core unity of the human race through the visual symbolism of apples. reminding us to-
“Penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow."
— Isaac Watts
