Here’s the video that was playing in the vertical TV’s at the show. I’ve combined them for easy sharing and projection. The clip is around 18 minutes long…so feel free to skip around a bit. The Self Motion Portrait is the next piece of the puzzle…and should be completed soon…stay tuned!
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Motion Portrait Project from John [...]
I first want to start by saying THANK YOU!…to all that came and made the show a success. I’d also like to thank Heron, Sierra, Luna, and Ben for the help with set up and take down. Once people came out of their shell a little…and Restys provided the soundtrack…we got some great portraits. In [...]
What a great experience Maine International Film Festival has been. I wasn’t there for TBTK, but Motion Portrait Film was excepted into their shorts program. It was wonderful. Great venue, great staff, great town. Waterville was amazing. I want to thank the entire staff for making this a place to see ground-breaking work in such [...]
So the other day I stopped and realized that in two years or so…I’ve finished two feature films. Crazy. I think back to when I moved up from NYC in 2006; penniless, full of ideas, but I hadn’t made a single thing since Maine Workshops and “Fog”. A good friend of mine, Daniel Swinton, offered [...]
It wasn’t until recently that IMDB, AMAZON, and WITHOUTABOX all became one. In this quickly changing landscape of film distribution, and the fact that festival exposure is starting to be the sole theatrical distribution for some films; it’s about time. The “system” has been kept too close to the vest for far too long. There [...]
A photographer and filmmaker from the Capital District of New York State, John W. Yost recently completed his second feature film, The Brave and the Kind, and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the University at Albany. His work is often a hybrid of narrative and documentary, constantly seeking beauty, truth, and a greater understanding of the self. Mr. Yost lives a modest and happy life with his wife Raeanne, and their cat, Toonces.