About this project
About Empty Hollow Echo
Empty Hollow Echo is my second feature film. Its been a labor of love over the last year and a half, and I'm almost finished. The big snag is our sound design, which is rather extensive and really needs someone working on it for at least a week straight.
The film asks the question, what the city would look like if only one person was in it. It takes place in a single evening as the character wanders the streets noticing all he ignored because of the hustle and bustle of the city. It's an apocalyptic film with no apocalypse, a dystopic vision of man's physical imprint on space, an architecture film as seen from a night on earth, where our character aches for attention and longs to be alone.
About our crew
A number of highly talented artists have already lent their abilities to the project either for free or for marginal cost including Sean Ryan, Ben Niles, Ben Kasulke, Daniel White, Rylan Morris, Sarah Crowe and Jens Larsen.
What we need
We need to raise $5000 in order to finish this project. The sound design is critical to the project as we need to create an empty city sound scape. We don't want to rely on music and will use sounds to generate the feeling of the characters isolation in the grandeur of the city. Our focus is on isolating those sounds that populate city life that get drowned out in unison. We will pull them out of the background and focus the viewers attention on what humans will leave behind them. This is the final step as we prepare the film for festivals, and generally kick it out into the world.
Can We Raise More Than Our Goal?
YES, we can. There is no limit to the amount of funds we can raise and additional funds raised will be put to good use. In today's new distribution environment for independent films, filmmakers can take an active role in distributing their films, which is incredibly empowering. Additional funds raised will ensure that the film reaches audiences everywhere.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 19, 2011.
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all of the above + a limited edition screen print poster for the film
Project By
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Adam Sekuler is program director of Northwest Film Forum, where he's brought the organization into a national leadership position in alternative film exhibition, curating individual films, director retrospectives and film festivals since 2006. He has initiated and organized major traveling programs for films that have screened across the country, and has devised a network among arts organizations for distributing otherwise undistributed films.
His film work includes MERELY MOUTHPIECE, which he exhibited at several film festivals and adapted as an installation with unique sound design where the audio was broadcast over shortwave FM radio transmitters. His short film PATHE BALLET won a prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Before arriving in Seattle, Adam was programmer for the nation's first and only dedicated non-fiction theatre, The Bell Auditorium. He is also co-founder of Search and Rescue, an ongoing effort to present and preserve discarded archives of 16mm films.
After graduating from the University of Washington in 2000 with degrees in Community and Environmental Planning, Business Administration and Dance, Shannon Stewart co-founded music nonprofits the Vera Project and the All-ages Movement Project and toured nationally and internationally as a dance artist.
In 2010, she officially started her own path as a choreographer, receiving multiple local residencies and opportunities to be presented at northwest venues (Open Flight, Velocity Dance Center, Tacoma School of the Arts, Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards, and Conduit in Portland). Shannon cureently dances with tEEth (2011-12), Salt Horse (2010-12), and has danced for Dayna Hanson (2010), zoe | juniper (2008-2010), Paige Barnes (2010), Kathleen Hermesdorf (2006-2008), and many others. She teaches contemporary technique, improvisation, is certified in Gyrokinesis®, and is a Teaching Artist with the Mark Morris Dance For Parkinson’s program.
Because of her consistent simultaneous work as an arts advocate and organizer, Shannon has been invited to write for Wiretap, the Nation, Americans for the Arts and Publicola. Between 2007 and 2010, Shannon wrote and compiled In Every Town, An All-Ages Music Manualfesto. Between 2008 and 2011 she acted as Velocity Dance Center’s Development Director and Interim Executive Director, helping the organization through a capital campaign, relocation, executive transition and strategic planning process.
