THINGS END?The Porch // Short Film
The Porch is a multimedia soundscape and animated short film exploring ideas of transition, grief, and times that must inevitably come to an end.
Max Dotson Director // Writer // Animator
Hazel Landers Composer // Sound Design
Pat Wild The Elder
Jerome Ceiro The Boy
Screenings
2/9/23 - Ligature 33 juried exhibition
4/5/24 - Orange and Blue Film Festival
*best sound design
5/9-10/24 - Frame By Frame: Fimmaker Showcase
Smartphones have gotten pretty dumb. Nobody needs social comments on financial transactions, or a 2FA notetaking app.
To push back against over-innovated tech, we made a paper smartphone.
Max Dotson Art Director // Designer
Caleb Driesman Copywriter
Malcolm Rose Designer
As a musician I have always loved the merging of music and the visual arts.
Built in TouchDesigner, this is a live time custom program that visualizes audio input as colourful 3D waveforms. With built-in track shifting you can control and swap between different songs, resulting in different colors and visuals based on volume, pitch, and tempo.
The program map is included below.
WHAT IF YOUR BRAND LIED?
[adult swim] Manifesto
To highlight adult swim’s pioneering work in the genre of pseudofiction we created a two sided manifesto satirizing those that color within the lines.
Max Dotson Animator // Art Director
Sam Khan Copywriter
Hunting for the perfect mockup annoys me, so one summer in NYC I made all the mockups I wanted and used it as an excuse to make my girlfriend’s dog Rooster famous.
Max Dotson: Photographer // Designer
Caleb Driesman: Copywriter
Download them here
In collaboration with Google Creative Lab, we created a choose your own adventure game to test the limits of Google generative AI. This later became the prototype for our Whiskas campaign.
Play it for yourself by clicking “start”
Max Dotson: Art Director
Caleb Driesman: Copywriter
WHAT WAS THAT NOISE?
Antigonish // Short Horror Film
A young woman adjusts to a new life, but finds that her new home may not be hers alone.
Cast (and also crew) in order of appearance
Eliza Fry as Abby
Avery Martin as Mom / Victim 4
Eliza Friel as Neighbor
Max Dotson as Little Man
John Zielinski as Victim 5
WHERE IS HOME?
My Way Home // Photography
A thank you to all the places and people I have had the chance to call home.
My Way Home chronicles a multiple month journey across the east coast documenting and photographing every house I have ever lived in and the people that made them home.
Solo project shot on Fujifilm X-T5