EXPERIMENTS

This is a series of experiments created over the past few years that is not meant to be placed into any genres.

e v e r y t h i n g i s f i n e (2017)

I just want to tell everyone that everything is fine.

Credits

Digital Manipulated by:

Michael Ong

in Fall 2015

Shot by:

Carlos Villagomez, Joel Carter

Featuring:

Grace Guo

Miscellanious Diary Entry (2017)

Originally Posted on Instagram, This is a digitally manipulated found footage commentary of the political climate that had reached its peak towards Jakarta's Governer's Election in Mid 2017. In which events are portrayed in a least offensive way possible.

Cold War Nostalgia

Published: 26th February 2017

Experiments of feeling Nostalgic about something that happen before I was born.

Memories Never Stay The Same

Published: 20th February 2017

It never stays the same

I Still Love

Published: 21st February 2017

I still love you even if you made a mess

A Day in a Dream (2017)

Shot on 16mm in around 2012 to 2013, this is an exercise to sort of digital film restoration. Removing the dust and color correcting the footage in a proper manner. stabilizing the frame weaving coming out of a Russian 16mm film Camera,

This is a companion piece to my other film, "Through the Darkest Valley" when I was still learning how to color correct footage and failing at it.

The Commute at Twilight (2015)

The Commute at Twilight is an experience of riding the train as a rider drifts in and out of consciousness. filmed on the commute between San Francisco and San Jose Diridon Station on Caltrain. And the BART Stations.

Triptychal (2014)

is a performance art film about the death of ignorance and its dire consequences. This version is edited to be much more linear for Internet Video The Film is originally projected through 3 16mm projectors simultaneously,

Shot on Super 8mm + Found Footage

Blow-Up to 16mm

Kino-Tension (2014)

This is a exploration in the medium to create images as sparsely different as possible, while still attaining the notion of todays society of informational overload. Shot with a super 8mm camera, with quite a new color-reversal film stock, Wittner-chrome, based on the Agfa-Aviphot Chrome by Agfa-Geavart.

Processed by Pro8mm

Re-photographed through the Digital Optical Printer,

Through the Darkest Valley (2013)

Through the Darkest Valley is an non-narrative film to create a feeling of an emotional cycle in a relation to the city. Shot and edited over the course of Fall 2012 to Spring 2013,

the Film is shot in 16mm on a Krasnogorsk-3 camera and a Super 8mm on a Bell and Howell camera. Shot on Kodak Vision 3 50D, 250D, Tri-X and the Hi-Con film.

It was transferred through Digital Optical Printer in San Francisco Art Institute.

20 Minutes of Unrelated Clusterfuck (2012)

Warning:

Contains Real Disturbing Images and digitally manipulated pornographic images.

Viewer Discretion is Advised

This experimental video is an exploration of the over-stimulation caused by the internet and a recreation of a human lifespan from life to death.

Digitally Manipulated Found Footage

33 Hours of International Limbo (2012)

An experimental documentary about being on being in transit for 33 hours back in 2012, there is a higher quality version but that was lost.