MICHAEL ONG
This is a selected filmography that portrays my sense of work best, most of the films are made while gaining BFA in Film in San Francisco Art Institute.
e v e r y t h i n g i s f i n e (Digital, 2017)
I just want to tell everyone that everything is fine.
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Digital Manipulated by:b Michael Ong
Shot by: Carlos Villagomez, Joel Carter
Featuring: Grace Guo
On an Unexpected Passing (Digital, 2015) is about a man who is too occupied to say farewell to his dearly departed to his friend.
A Film by Michael Ong
Additional Cinematography: Ozlem Ayse Ozgur
Starring: Joel Carter, Devon Kelley, Carlos Franco Villagomez & Will Zang
Voices by Michael Ong and Devon Kelley
Special Thanks to Mike Kuchar for letting us do anything we want.
The Afterlife of María Félix (35mm Still, Digital, 2014) is about the appearance of the apparition of María Félix occurs during the end of October, warning the humans of the end of the long and sunny hours, with the onslaught of dark hours and freezing temperature.
Photographed, Cinematographed, Writing, Narration by Michael Ong
Featuring: Carlos Franco Villagomez as María Félix, With Joel Carter, Nicole Hernandez Alvarado, Devon Calderon
Thanks to: Jennifer Kroot and Jim Mckee
Screened at: April 2015 - SFAI Reaccreditation Show, March 2015 - Goody Cafe
Contra - s v z v k i (Kenta Suzuki) (2015)
Shot and Edited by Michael Ong
16mm B/W Sequence
Directed by Joel Carter
Cinematography by Carlos Villagomez
With the Appearance of Devon Kelley
Kino-Tension is a exploration in the medium to create images as sparsely different as possible, while still attaining the notion of today’s society of informational overload. (Super 8mm to Digital, 2013)
Special Thanks to Kerry Laitala
Through the Darkest Valley is a is an experimentation of sound and image that explores the lowest point of human emotions and how it is coped with.(16mm, Super 8mm to Digital, 2013)
Special Thanks to Hiro Narita and Jay Boekelheide
Screened at: Pacific Film Archives Student Film Festival - October 2013
Made for an introduction to film class in SFAI in Spring 2012, Portals is shot on a Bolex with a Kodak Tri-X 16mm filmstock. The soundtrack is recorded in a bathroom dorm with an iPhone, which I must say, its quite decent. The film was just transfered recently through a digital printer, which an optical printer with a DSLR.(16mm Film, 2012)