Harry Sloan
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Saturday & Sunday
13 minute Art Video
Saturday & Sunday presents two days in the life of a street
theater mime edited to excellent cello music composed by Bach,
Dvorak and Tchaikovsky from David Hamilton Music. As we follow
the mime “Sticky Glitz” in his weekend routine we see that truly
“All the world is a stage” for our protagonist. His audience is
everywhere among the urban backgrounds as he seeks out his
next performance. Sticky glides through a sea of spectators both
repelled and attracted to his eccentric character. Regardless of the differences in their
stories both performer and spectator share the same ending as performed in full
costume mime, on the street, the finale: Death of Everyman on the Book of Laws
next to the Wheel of Fortune and on the way home witnesses the Death of
Democracy you don’t want to miss it.
John Schwartz is the inimitable “Sticky Glitz” the well dressed down and out mime.
For the street scenes we had a basic plan but much of John’s masterful performance
is pure improvisation. This is my favorite movie because of John’s natural acting
talent. John studied Theater & Dance at UC Irvine but this performance is from his
heart and from his experiences. He presents the consummate portrayal of the artist
thriving among his audience because the film is also a real-life portrait of John living
his life as the artist.
Mr. Mono
10 minute Art Video
Mr Mono is terrorized by his own primal nightmare as he
rushes to the end of his frantic journey. The video is not
about the violence of terrorism but its long term goal of
social and financial melt down in the victim country from
fear, distrust, division and spying. These elements are
reflected in Mr Mono as a single minded oil executive lost
in a corporate maze. Ironically as Mr Mono scurries
onward he is oblivious to nature and the spirit characters around him as he
descends from a well dressed executive in his high rise office to a rag man
wandering the desert struggling for his survival.
In 1977 I began work on a concept for my new film. My basic question was: What
will be the most significant world issues in the near future? Oil and Terrorism was
my answer. Oil was obvious but terrorism in the USA was not a significant problem,
yet. But I knew the ingredients were simmering just below the surface.
John Schwartz performs a brilliant Mr Mono mime act and dance across a vast
southern California stage. As director and editor I have seen frame by frame the
artistic detail of John’s acting and his performance is a short film masterpiece.
Human History
5 minute Art Video
Human History is a fast paced animated art video with an original
music soundtrack. The music along with the rapid images propels
the viewer through Human History from a beginning of natural
shapes and rhythms devolving into a jungle of man-made
geometry in a chaotic soundscape.
During the making of Mr Mono and Saturday & Sunday from 1978
to 1984 my spare time was spent experimenting and playing with my Super 8 motion
picture camera. Stop motion (single frame) animation was my favorite but as you
see in Human History my imagination was running wild. There was no movie concept
in mind while I was shooting each film clip. It was not until 2007 that all of these
diverse film strips and music came together as a digital video titled Human History.
Saturday & Sunday
13 minute Art Video
Saturday & Sunday presents two days in the life of a street
theater mime edited to excellent cello music composed by Bach,
Dvorak and Tchaikovsky from David Hamilton Music. As we follow
the mime “Sticky Glitz” in his weekend routine we see that truly
“All the world is a stage” for our protagonist. His audience is
everywhere among the urban backgrounds as he seeks out his
next performance. Sticky glides through a sea of spectators both
repelled and attracted to his eccentric character. Regardless of the differences in their
stories both performer and spectator share the same ending as performed in full
costume mime, on the street, the finale: Death of Everyman on the Book of Laws
next to the Wheel of Fortune and on the way home witnesses the Death of
Democracy you don’t want to miss it.
John Schwartz is the inimitable “Sticky Glitz” the well dressed down and out mime.
For the street scenes we had a basic plan but much of John’s masterful performance
is pure improvisation. This is my favorite movie because of John’s natural acting
talent. John studied Theater & Dance at UC Irvine but this performance is from his
heart and from his experiences. He presents the consummate portrayal of the artist
thriving among his audience because the film is also a real-life portrait of John living
his life as the artist.
Mr. Mono
10 minute Art Video
Mr Mono is terrorized by his own primal nightmare as he
rushes to the end of his frantic journey. The video is not
about the violence of terrorism but its long term goal of
social and financial melt down in the victim country from
fear, distrust, division and spying. These elements are
reflected in Mr Mono as a single minded oil executive lost
in a corporate maze. Ironically as Mr Mono scurries
onward he is oblivious to nature and the spirit characters around him as he
descends from a well dressed executive in his high rise office to a rag man
wandering the desert struggling for his survival.
In 1977 I began work on a concept for my new film. My basic question was: What
will be the most significant world issues in the near future? Oil and Terrorism was
my answer. Oil was obvious but terrorism in the USA was not a significant problem,
yet. But I knew the ingredients were simmering just below the surface.
John Schwartz performs a brilliant Mr Mono mime act and dance across a vast
southern California stage. As director and editor I have seen frame by frame the
artistic detail of John’s acting and his performance is a short film masterpiece.
Human History
5 minute Art Video
Human History is a fast paced animated art video with an original
music soundtrack. The music along with the rapid images propels
the viewer through Human History from a beginning of natural
shapes and rhythms devolving into a jungle of man-made
geometry in a chaotic soundscape.
During the making of Mr Mono and Saturday & Sunday from 1978
to 1984 my spare time was spent experimenting and playing with my Super 8 motion
picture camera. Stop motion (single frame) animation was my favorite but as you
see in Human History my imagination was running wild. There was no movie concept
in mind while I was shooting each film clip. It was not until 2007 that all of these
diverse film strips and music came together as a digital video titled Human History.