Version 9c (17 Minutes)
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J.F. Culhane is most interested in telling modern stories using digital technology. The methods to achieve these worlds include linear and interactive video, photography, websites, viral media, and virtual elements.
The narrative themes J.F. Culhane is most fascinated by include derivative stories and folklore, chance operations, unseen patterns with subtle subconscious influences, impossibly subjective personal labyrinthine journeys, obsessive behavior and rituals, and the meaning of the modern community.
Radio Free Blissville is a short film tangent of a longer feature script. The short sets up the foundation for a world where humanity’s increased dependency on technology has failed, and the perception of remaining technology as a form of magic invent new myths and necessary communications.
Short Media CV – J.F. Culhane
2009 – Radio Free Blissville – Director/Producer
2003 – Glasscapsule.com – Sovereign Media Label and Distribution Network
2002 – Center for Audio Visual Research Induction Program DVD – Producer/Programmer
2001 – The Endless Flight of the Phoenix (Short) – Director/Producer
1998 – Spillway.com (The People’s Photos) Legendary Found Photo Archive
1997 – On Tour (PBS) – Sunshine Digital/Sonicnet – Online Producer
1995 – Top Peg – 13 Episodes – MNN – Producer Director
1991 – B.F.A. New York School of Visual Arts (Film/Video)
1991 – The Strange World of Maxwell Maltz – Director/Producer
1990 – Saturday Night Live – Assistant to Writers and Research
Various Interactive and Online Community Projects for Microsoft (1997), AOL (1999), Gigantic Art Space (2002), and Comcast (2004).
Youtube Channel – 2.4 Million Video views. (December 2009)
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HF Propagation Tool – Sunspot and Solar Data Panels
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Documentary – Pirate Radio USA
J.F. Culhane is most interested in telling modern stories using digital technology. The methods to achieve these worlds include linear and interactive video, photography, websites, viral media, and virtual elements.
The narrative themes J.F. Culhane is most fascinated by include derivative stories and folklore, chance operations, unseen patterns with subtle subconscious influences, impossibly subjective personal labyrinthine journeys, obsessive behavior and rituals, and the meaning of the modern community.
Radio Free Blissville is a short film tangent of a longer feature script. The short sets up the foundation for a world where humanity’s increased dependency on technology has failed, and the perception of remaining technology as a form of magic invent new myths and necessary communications.
Short Media CV – J.F. Culhane
2009 – Radio Free Blissville – Director/Producer
2003 – Glasscapsule.com – Sovereign Media Label and Distribution Network
2002 – Center for Audio Visual Research Induction Program DVD – Producer/Programmer
2001 – The Endless Flight of the Phoenix (Short) – Director/Producer
1998 – Spillway.com (The People’s Photos) Legendary Found Photo Archive
1997 – On Tour (PBS) – Sunshine Digital/Sonicnet – Online Producer
1995 – Top Peg – 13 Episodes – MNN – Producer Director
1991 – B.F.A. New York School of Visual Arts (Film/Video)
1991 – The Strange World of Maxwell Maltz – Director/Producer
1990 – Saturday Night Live – Assistant to Writers and Research
Various Interactive and Online Community Projects for Microsoft (1997), AOL (1999), Gigantic Art Space (2002), and Comcast (2004).
Youtube Channel – 2.4 Million Video views. (December 2009)
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RADIO FREE BLISSVILLE is a short film.
Synopsis:
The year is 2013. There has recently been a huge satellite war and all modern communications have been disrupted. In America, the Department of Defense has taken back most of the internet, reducing it to a unusable trickle of information.
Most of the general public who were dependent upon technology are detached and lost. Urban society has returned to a DIY fix it culture.
One bright spot is the resurgence of lawless community based pirate radio. These covert broadcasts are unseen but heard intermittently.
A leader in the movement is Lenox and his faithful driver Stu who broadcast from a roving car with an odd looking antenna on the roof. They circle certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn reading dedications, playing uplifting music, and passing along pertinent information to the public. They will sometimes drive the neighborhood circuit for days at a time, or until the energy in the car runs down.
Along the way they stop and do “on the spot” interviews with people they know and some they don’t know which are broadcast locally live. They have a growing audience as they have been doing this consistently for a few months now.
