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UNDEREXPOSED (trailer)
2017, actual running time: 17m 07s

UNDEREXPOSED brings visibility to black
youth in Cleveland as they find solace in art
making and performing as members of
Shooting Without Bullets, Cleveland's
revolutionary youth advocacy program. This
coming of age story illuminates their discovery
of self in the midst of extreme economic
depression and stark racial segregation.

Created in conjunction with The Cleveland
Institute of Art's Advanced Video Projects class.

Directed by:
Dagen Louis
Noelle Richard

Produced by:
Amanda King
Jacob Koestler

Featuring the voices of:
Charles
Genesis
Imani
Jasmine
JB
Lai Lai
Leilani
Los
Tara
Triiio





Moon Water
2016, 13m 43s

Citing the works of W.G. Sebald, Robert Frank
and Alvin Lucier, this video essay examines
humans' role in our post-industrial world while
imagining a new home elsewhere in outer space.





SPACER
by Rural Carrier

Cleveland, OH, 2016
movement: Marcia Custer
camera: Jacob Koestler

My Idea of Fun
Catalog # MIF327





Bad Weather (Trailer)
2013, actual running time: 21m 52s

An existential journey carries a young
man to a distant island. It is here, just
past the human peripheral, that he
discovers a similarly disillusioned mermaid
who has cast a spell to destroy the world
that has forgotten her.

Music by:
Alchemeleon
Jacob Koestler
Brandon Locher
Narrow Berth
The One and Only Matt Miller
Ax Wagon

Soundtrack available:
My Idea of Fun
Catalog # 248





Deep Earth - Movement 1: Investigation
of the Laws Observable in the Composition,
Dissolution and Restoration of Land upon
the Globe

Premiered during the 2014 Athens
International Film Festival in Athens, OH
at Central Venue.

Composed by Matthew Burtner
Performed by NOBROW.collective
Video captured by Jacob Koestler
Audio captured by Jake Householder

NOBROW.collective is:
Aaron Michael Butler - percussion
Joseph Van Hassel - percussion
Amelia Thornton - violin
James Farley - viola
Greg Sigman - saxophones
Andrew Gross - clarinet
Caleb Miller - piano
Eli Chambers - guitar/bass

To view Movements 2–6:
View the whole playlist here





Orange River
(Road to Nowhere)

2013, two-channel video
installation, variable dimensions




UNDEREXPOSED (trailer)
2017, actual running time: 17m 07s

UNDEREXPOSED brings visibility to black
youth in Cleveland as they find solace in art
making and performing as members of
Shooting Without Bullets, Cleveland's
revolutionary youth advocacy program. This
coming of age story illuminates their discovery
of self in the midst of extreme economic
depression and stark racial segregation.

Created in conjunction with The Cleveland
Institute of Art's Advanced Video Projects class.

Directed by:
Dagen Louis
Noelle Richard

Produced by:
Amanda King
Jacob Koestler

Featuring the voices of:
Charles
Genesis
Imani
Jasmine
JB
Lai Lai
Leilani
Los
Tara
Triiio





Moon Water
2016, 13m 43s

Citing the works of W.G. Sebald, Robert Frank
and Alvin Lucier, this video essay examines
humans' role in our post-industrial world while
imagining a new home elsewhere in outer space.





SPACER
by Rural Carrier

Cleveland, OH, 2016
movement: Marcia Custer
camera: Jacob Koestler

My Idea of Fun
Catalog # MIF327





Bad Weather (Trailer)
2013, actual running time: 21m 52s

An existential journey carries a young
man to a distant island. It is here, just
past the human peripheral, that he
discovers a similarly disillusioned mermaid
who has cast a spell to destroy the world
that has forgotten her.

Music by:
Alchemeleon
Jacob Koestler
Brandon Locher
Narrow Berth
The One and Only Matt Miller
Ax Wagon

Soundtrack available:
My Idea of Fun
Catalog # 248





Deep Earth - Movement 1: Investigation
of the Laws Observable in the Composition,
Dissolution and Restoration of Land upon
the Globe

Premiered during the 2014 Athens
International Film Festival in Athens, OH
at Central Venue.

Composed by Matthew Burtner
Performed by NOBROW.collective
Video captured by Jacob Koestler
Audio captured by Jake Householder

NOBROW.collective is:
Aaron Michael Butler - percussion
Joseph Van Hassel - percussion
Amelia Thornton - violin
James Farley - viola
Greg Sigman - saxophones
Andrew Gross - clarinet
Caleb Miller - piano
Eli Chambers - guitar/bass

To view Movements 2–6:
View the whole playlist here





Orange River
(Road to Nowhere)

2013, two-channel video
installation, variable dimensions