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The very first video I watched of his was a “Blank on Blank” of my favorite actor.
#LUCY SCHWARTZ SERIES#
The way I found Patrick Smith’s amazing animation was through a video series he did called “Blank on Blank”, where he animated lost interviews of actors, musicians, artists etc.I think we can all agree this is his most genius work to date. So my dad hopped in the booth and sang a few “Phillips”. I thought maybe, like Groot – the character from Guardians of the Galaxy who only says “I am Groot” – perhaps Phillip only says his own name. After we recorded the song, I thought, maybe Phillip should also sing something. Once we had the animation, the song ended up really tying the whole piece together. It felt fun and zany and very “me” so I tagged it onto the end of the poem. As we were recording the narration, I was goofing around by the piano, and I started making up the song, and singing in a Brittish accent, like a British 70’s rock n’ roller. The song at the end of the short film was not planned.That’s what creates that eerie cascading harp-like sound and the plucking sounds. On a second track, I have the lid of the grand piano open, and I am strumming the strings of the piano. On one track, I’m playing the piano like…a piano. The score is me on piano and my dad on bass.
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When I shared it on instagram someone commented that it would be great as an animated short film. A few years ago, I was at my typewriter, and I wrote a very quick stream-of-consciousness poem about a monster.
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I didn’t originally set out to make a short film.