Bob Moczydlowsky directs  72 Musicians, a documentary about indepedent musicians and the struggles that come with persuing a love of performing and creating music. I’ve known Bob for the past 3 years through working at the Sundance Film Festival.

Here is the synopsis from IMDB:

One stage, one chair, four days, 20 bands, 72 musicians. All speaking with a single, anonymous voice about art, poverty, booze, lies, class, hardship, food and failure. Oh, and day care. And rock ‘n’ roll.

Through a curtain of cigarette smoke, close up shots of eyes, mouths, and hands – anonymous voices – form one collective story about what it means to be an indepedent musician. Its inspiring, eye-opening, heart wrentching, and funny – all while being very real. Authentic and entertaining.

Do yourself a favor and check out the site. download a copy. or buy the raw footage and make your own documentary!

Sundance increasingly becomes more and more like summer camp each year. This could be because of all of the fun people that surround you and all the different activities happening at once. It might also be because its a break from reality. It’s a festival dedicated to the unique voice, the untold story, and the artist.

The last few days of the festival, we experienced power problems and were forced to move to festival headquarters in order to keep editing.

Icicles get to a point where they aren’t cute and decorative, but legitimate menacing killers.

They are not as scary as this face. Mid-edit face.

Calvin from the Sundance Insider team whipped up this Bacon explosion – sausage wrapped in a woven blanket of bacon – topped with BBQ sauce. Legendary.

Brandon Joseph Baker, showed off his bartender skills and made some tasty bloody marys. The left-over feast Saturday and Sunday nights at Sundance is quite a scene. Dave Drusky and I made pizza, omelets, sandwiches, and soup for our feast. Note for 2011 – one person buy peanut butter.

2009-2010 Snowboard season, count = 7 days. Got to double that amount.

Live @ Sundance – Ten Days of Different

The cinematic rebellion has only just begun. Let’s look back at ten days of different. Every festival, the Live @ Sundance team produces a “week in review” video. This year, after doing a paper edit of memorable quotes, we dove into the days of footage from this year’s festival. After locking down a quote based skeleton, we overlaid b-roll from films, events, and locations around Park City. Each one of the four editors had a pass on the edit. We all feel like the finished product is a solid piece of content.

Production Company: Sundance Institute
Client: Sundance Film Festival
Role: One of four Camera Operators, Editor, and Colorist.

Live @ Sundance – Brotherly Love

Director of Programming Trevor Groth speaks with the Butcher (The Violent Kind) and Safdie (Daddy Long Legs) brothers about collaboration.

Production Company: Sundance Institute
Client: Sundance Film Festival
Role: Camera Operator, Editor, and Colorist.

Live @ Sundance – Bill Gates on Art & Technology

Bill Gates visited the Sundance 2010 Filmmaker’s Brunch and took a moment to speak with the Live @ Sundance team. We asked him about the role of technology in art – specifically filmmaking. Bill also gives us insight into Waiting for Superman a feature documentary at the festival. Bing – Microsoft’s re-branded search engine is a sponsor of the Sundance Film Festival. 

Production Company: Sundance Institute
Client: Sundance Film Festival
Role: Cinematographer, Editor, and Colorist.

Spike Jonze’s latest work is in the short’s program #1. Entitled “I’m Here” it is a robot love-story. Excited to see it, if I get some free time, during the Sundance Film Festival.

Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop will premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. So the piece on Park Ave indicates that the artist himself is in Park City for the premiere. The full length film is due out in Spring 2010.

Sundance Resort, Utah.

The flight up to Utah went quick. Before I knew it I was in a rented Jeep Wrangler driving up to Brighton. No new snow for the weekend. Still able to dig up some powder underneath the trees.

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My Midwest surf homies – Chris Adams and Blake Bailey get set to ride @ Brighton. Love the gloves Chris.

After a day of flying and dropping double black diamonds at Brighton – A Squatter’s meal and sampler was in order.

Sunday was off to Sundance. It was 4th time riding at the Sundance resort – Its so low key and the lift lines are shorter than anywhere else. The back bowl is one of the widest in any of the SLC area resorts. Plus the drive up and the scenery are worth the lift ticket price.

You can even hike some of the smaller peaks and drop in a pow pow gnar run of your own.

Only three lifts for the entire resort. The nice part is that the back two service the more advanced trails and never have lines.

View from the lift.

Finally got the Free Gold Watch – Wolf Ticket shirt. Quick processing and shipping from the Giant Peach. Check out San Francisco’s Free Gold Watch – this shirt is at least a year old and they have been using 3M reflective ink for a while. 

Don’t sell Wolf Tickets. You know I want to go to the show.

Ever leave your camera out in the open. Only to find a bunch of random photos on it the next day? 

Sure, we all have. Here are random photos taken by other people on my camera during the Sundance film festival. 

Danny got a hold of the camera and snapped a few of these. Late nights of editing will make you crazy.

Mike looks like he accidently mixed Maker’s Mark and Coffee. Dave jams on some compression probably while listening to some good tunes.

Sundance, Park City crew member Alex showed up in the photos. Nice portrait. 

The last of Boulevard wheat ale on chill- in the best way possible. Thanks for grabbing a still of it Danny. 

Butchers Mohan is also a fan of the Onitsuka Tigers. Grabbed this random one from the condo. Nice kicks. 

New snow. New snow. I’m excited. 

This image reminds me of the movie posters for Captivity. Really I just have surfaced capillaries and get bloody noses sometimes. They don’t bother me and taking photos of them freaks people out.

Here is the Live @ Sundance 2009 Week in Review video. I did not edit this, but did shoot some of the clips used and did a few quick color grades. Now its time to kick back in the condo hot tub, watch a couple of films, and get ready to ride in the 6 inches of fresh pow that have blanketed Park City. 

The Boneyard, Live @ Sundance Crew posed for a few quick snaps by Elisha Christian- here are a few of my personal favorites. Click the link below and check out the larger images. 

Director of Photography, Elisha Christian. (and the photographer of the follow shots)

Shooter/Editor, Christopher Joseph.

Mike Mohan, Producer and really good guy.

Danny Roew, Shooter/Editor. 

Some dude named Will Roegge, Shooter/Editor/Robot

Dave Drusky, Volunteer Video Pro.

Mark Harrison, HP Panel Crew.

Andy DeYoung, HP Crew. 

Great guys! Sweet Photos.

Here is a quick edit I did on foreign filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival 2009. 

Look into my eyes and tell me what it is you see.

Unless I’ve just consumed a Rockstar energy drink- you’ll probably see a blank gaze.

Its my tenth day at Sundance. The end is in sight. Snow on the horizon. Snowboarding next week. I’m working on finishing up a piece on international filmmakers at the festival. Sounds similar to one I did on short filmmakers- just change the accent up a little. 

Some jumbo soggy snowflakes came down early in the day. It made me think of my trip to Chicago and the last snow fall. 

It was in the upper thirties and the snow was melting fast!

Check out this stream flowing with ice cold snow melt water.

Funny. A construction worker saw me jump off this snow pile and was really confused.

“Why are you taking photos of the snow pile?” he asked. I just smiled and laughed.

This is some kind of radio transmission unit. If you get close enough, there is some kind of speaker inside, and you can hear people talking. Really random. I think I’ve found my way into a James Bond movie.

Sunset was gorgeous again. 

A steady stream of dripping water from above creates ice stalagmites. 

The source of the drips.

Sunset in the building across the street.

Amazed. Sundance beard coming in nicely. Do you think I’ve broken my nose before? Surfaced capillaries?

Until the award ceremony tomorrow. Boneyard.

Clouds. Finally. Hopefully, some snow is on the way. Sunny and in the 40s during the day does not make for good “dry Utah powder”. Check out the rest of my day at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. 

There is another old mine by the office. 

Gas meters. 

Wolf sculpture by the Live @ Sundance office. 

The 40k bear sculpture. Not joking, seriously, forty thousand dollars- well spent.

Macro. What ya know.

Such a tease.

Then it was down to the Kimball Center for the NHK Awards Reception. 

Some cool photographs from previous films at the festival. 

Dave watches as Elisha sets up lighting for an interview.

Yum. A nice spread of food with a waterfall in the middle. 

Please, bring some snow. A lil pow pow to round out the week.

Short filmmakers are awesome. They are forced to tell compelling stories with limited resources and within a short time frame. 

The 2009 Sundance Film Festival had an incredible short film program. 

This is my latest Sundance video. Shot by Elisha, Produced by Mike Mohan and Joe Beyer.

Edited and Color grading by me. 

Andrew DeYoung directs and Mark Harrison stars in Will Balance. Forget white balance, there is a new light temperature that is sweeping the filmmaking scene- Will Balance.

Andy and Mark cut this together with some white balance footage they had from their HP Panels videos. It was just the goofy thing that all of us needed yesterday- to make the day easier. I’m not sure if I should be honored or scared that they picked my credential photo to superimpose on the white balance card- thanks guys! haha. 

Here is one of the rental Nissan Xterra’s we have been getting around in for the past week +. Its hard to miss, being bright yellow. But works well, when you are trying to pick someone up in traffic. Day Eight of Sundance 2009. Yesterday was the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. It was interesting to be in Park City, during the film festival for the occasion. After the jump, there are a few snaps from the gathering in downtown Park City for the Inauguration.

The crowd watches tv monitors showing the Inauguration. There were very few dry eyes.

Kids play in the snow in front of the monitors. Pretty good sized crowd for 9am. 

Very patriotic.

I stole this idea from Elisha. Who was shooting macro shots of the snow texture earlier in the week. This is from a snow mound outside of the office. After melting, freezing, and then melting again. 

More of the yellow Xterra and in the driver side window’s reflection- a preview of what caught my eye next. 

The texture of this historic mining building caught my attention. Plus the long vertical windows really reflected the light nicely!

Vertical. 

Close Up. 

Really enjoying Lightroom 2 for processing RAW files from my Panasonic DMC-LX2. Now all I need is some new snow.

This year, the Presidential Inauguration and Sundance happened on the same weekend. Here is a piece that I edited and shot a good portion of for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration from the streets of Park City, Utah during the film festival. There are some great quotes from Robert Redford, Geoff Gilmore, Chris Rock, and the former Chairman of the NEA- Bill Ivey.

Game face. Its day Seven, for you non-spanish speaking numeral understanders. So scope these photos. 

Unseasonably warm, check out some of the snow melt around the ponds in this park across from our office. 

This statue better not be to scale. If so, I’m very frightened of bears. 

This lift is right by the office and at the top of the stairs by the office. What a tease. 

Banners in tow.

I really dig this wooden framed elevator. 

Trees, vertically. 

Day before the inauguration. Feeling patriotic- saw this outside of the Park City lift. 

Self portrait, dead serious. 

Presidential Inauguration video coming soon- response from the crowds in Park City and talking with filmmakers about art, politics, and the economy.