About Miles Crist
Miles Crist is 15 years old and comes from Los Angeles, California. Currently, he is a sophomore at Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara, California. His films have been recognized with top honors from the National YoungArts Foundation, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival. His promotional film for Academy Award nominated director Spike Lee has been featured on the homepage of his website, 40acres.com
City Series: San Francisco
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The second in a series of city symphonies. Next in the series: London
“In the the 1920s the movies were still relatively young, and an evolving modernist aesthetic embraced all things new, sleek, fast, and urban. Not surprisingly, a common focus of the cinematic avant-garde during this era was on the power, and excitement of cities. In both Europe and the US, a small genre of films that became know as ‘city symphonies’ attempted to capture the spirit, uniqueness, and poetry of a city by assembling images of everyday life in that city. These early films and their offsprings often utilized what film historian Bill Nichols has termed the ‘poetic mode’ of documentary film production–an attempt to move away from the ‘objective’ reality of a given situation or people in order to grasp at an inner ‘truth’ that can only be conveyed by poetical manipulations of mood, tone, time, and space.”
-University of California Berkeley Media Resources Center
Music: Take Five by Dave Brubeck
Shot on a Canon 7D with a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8, Tokina 16-28mm f/2.8, Canon 17-55mm f/2.8, Redrock Micro The Event handheld rig, D|Focus Matte box and Follow focus, polarizing filter, and a Manfrotto 504
COLOR | 2.35:1 | DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO
January 15, 2013
City Series: New York
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The first in a series of city symphonies. Next in the series: San Francisco.
“In the the 1920s the movies were still relatively young, and an evolving modernist aesthetic embraced all things new, sleek, fast, and urban. Not surprisingly, a common focus of the cinematic avant-garde during this era was on the power, and excitement of cities. In both Europe and the US, a small genre of films that became know as ‘city symphonies’ attempted to capture the spirit, uniqueness, and poetry of a city by assembling images of everyday life in that city. These early films and their offsprings often utilized what film historian Bill Nichols has termed the ‘poetic mode’ of documentary film production–an attempt to move away from the ‘objective’ reality of a given situation or people in order to grasp at an inner ‘truth’ that can only be conveyed by poetical manipulations of mood, tone, time, and space.”
-University of California Berkeley Media Resources Center
Music: Shot In the Back of the Head by Moby. Licensed through Mobygratis.
Shot on a Canon 7D with a 17-55mm f/2.8, Redrock Micro The Event handheld rig, and a Manfrotto 504.
COLOR | 1.77:1 | DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO
October 2012
In Motion
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Shot in France, Italy, Switzerland, and Denmark
Made with a Canon 7D with a 17-55mm f2.8
COLOR | 1.77:1 | DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO
July/August 2011
Wait For Me
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A time-lapse film of the clouds and sky shot in Santa Barbara, CA and in Santa Catalina, CA.
Music: Wait for Me by Moby. Licensed through mobygratis.
Shot on a Canon 7D with a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8, Canon 17-55mm f/2.8
COLOR | 1.5:1 | DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO
September/October 2012
Reel
Reel of films from 2011-2012
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Includes footage from: In Motion, Ella, Save Cinque Terre, Wait for Me, CIty Series: New York, and an upcoming time-lapse film.
Music by Asura – Whispering Through
Shot on a Canon 7D with a Canon 17-55mm f/2.8, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8
COLOR | 1.5:1 1.77:1, 2.35:1 | DOLBY DIGITAL STEREO
December 2012
