Staten Island, home of director/producer Geoff Celis, is a unique environment for film, music, and comedy. Being sandwiched by Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the rest of the United States, Staten Island has a social landscape that mixes stark conservatives and extreme liberalism, guidos and hipsters, urb…
In the spring of 2012, a Director of Photography friend, Eythan Maidoff suggested to me to take advantage of his recently purchased Red EPIC. Immediately I imagined a high wonderfully irresponsible video involving samurai swords and possibly a music video, but what band would I ask and more importantly where was I going to findContinue reading "Overboard – Music Video for Les Vinyl"
This video is being premeired on Magnet Magazine Film At 11: Boy Genius Marisa Cerio of Boy Genius and I collaborated on a experimental music and art show by the Verrazano bridge a few years ago. The first year I created an abstract narrative to play behind her band. The next year, I curated anContinue reading "Boy Genius “Old New England” Music Video"
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In 2007, I worked as the Director of Photography on a music video for world renown rapper Dres from Blacksheep. On a low budget, and the resilient work ethic of the people involved, we were able to put this music video together.
Director Jonathan Whittaker approached me in the summer of 2008 to produce this little commercial for Anabel Phones. You like.
Kilgore Trout is Dead – Open Film Night Presents from geoffrey celis on Vimeo. Ezra and I had collaborated on some experimental pieces a few years back and to see his musical evolution has been inspiring. From a legacy of musicians, Ezra always had an affinity to vaudville, ukeleles, and technology. It was a naturalContinue reading "Kilgore Trout is Dead – Open Film Night"