Little Moving Pictures

10 Years of LMP - Chapter 11: Playing With Fire You want to film a group of bad-ass women shooting real flaming arrows at their uncomfortable high heels? Sure, we’ve got insurance for that! Legendary creatives Jon Soto and Nick Cohen of Mad Dogs & Englishmen invited us along with bad-ass director Cali Bondad (@turbotwigs) to execute this wild pyro idea for their client Vionic Shoes. Cali brought a dreamy poetic sensibilty to the film, while San Francisco offered up an incredible sunset skyline for our heroine’s backdrop - though we did end up painting out the recently completed Salesforce Tower from the scene, it was just a little too, um... erect for the vibe of our film. Sorry Mr Benioff.

10 Years of LMP: Chapter 8 - Read. My. Lips. Our first film that wasn’t a music video or commercial continues to be the most viewd piece we’ve ever made. The folks at RadioLab had initially wanted to turn Rachel Kolb’s essay “Seeing at the Speed of Sound” into an audio piece but realized it would be better told through video, so they passed the story along to our pal David Terry Fine. We filmed our friends and members of the deaf community, invented some scenes outside of the studio and spent a lot of time figuring out a clever way to bring it all together with picture, sound design and experiential subtitles. The film was selected for the National Geographic short film showcase and was also featured by Vimeo Staff Picks, Short of the Week and The Atlantic and was awarded an AICP award for best sound design (designed by Nathan Petty and mixed by Joaby Deal). It’s been adopted by institutions and integrated into training and education programs around the world. Posted and re-posted, it’s been seen and shared by millions of people who hopefullly have a better understanding of what it’s like to use one sense to do the work of another.

10 Years of LMP: Chapter 6 - Let’s Get Hyper Before AI came gunning for our careers, the gig workers did, so we helped them make a fun commercial! This 2015 brand re-launch spot for UpWork titled “Ideas Need People” (remember when ideas needed people?) was our first forray into hyper art direction. It’s lo-fi and high-concept, and we love it! The first of many more LMP hyper art direction spots, and the first of many of our favorite projects directed by our amazing and talented friend @mimicave.

10 years of LMP: Chapter 5 - Criminal Element LMP was originally conceived and founded as an editorial and post shop, but we quickly saw a need in our community of ad agencies and in-house brand studios for an all-in-one production and post service, so we adapted and like to say we “accidentally” became a production company. That said, editorial and post are still the heart and soul of LMP and we don’t shoot every project we work on. This period piece for 19 Crimes was directed by Nick Ball out of Furlined, and DP’d by the legendary Jan Velicky. Created by our good friend Joe Kayser and his agency @kayserandco, with copywriter Eric Boyd (who also has a cameo in the spot!). Shot in 2015 in the Czech Republic on an old Soviet era sound stage, the spot is based on an actual poem written by a real convict banished to Australia in 1867.

10 Years of LMP: Chapter 4 - The Oner It’s a music video kinda week here at LMP, so lets revisit one from the archives... In 2014, thanks to the film Birdman, the seamless, no visible edits, single-shot technique known as “the oner” was all the rage. So we gave it a try ourselves. This music video for @dodosmusic was a choreographic and technical feat, that by the end of the day after 40+ takes, had the band completely drained and our camera op, Steadi-Stew, practically collapsing from exhaustion. But, he got the take. Directed by @tylerturtle, DP @devinwhetstone, Steadi Cam Op @steadistewart, and Choreography by @katiegaydos. See if you can spot the one and only cut in the edit :)

10 Years of LMP: Chapter 3 - Jet Lag Deeper into 2014 - We’re about to move into our office on Geary Street in the heart of what the folks who market neighborhoods would call The Theater District. An opportunity presents itself to tell a story in Sunderland, England - which has no theater district at all. The people who lived there were wonderful and baffled by the presence of a crew. We got to see everything - factories, schools, city hall, a football match, and pubs of course. The agency creatives were nice enough to take a chance on the us as a fledgling company who hadn’t yet filmed much outside of San Francico, but were comforted when we brought on @devinwhetstone who had filmed other work for Citrix. David Terry Fine directed and we were lucky enough to bring @tylerturtle to shoot stills and timelapses. @yourstrulycreative, a studio we had known and admired for years were throwing an insane party in London for Ray-Ban that happened to coincide with our shoot, so after we wrapped in Sunderland, we took a train to London and got to see artists like Moses Sumney and Nick Hakim perform in an immersive event made with the help of future friend @lyddypiddy celebrating the 13th hour, the extra hour when we turn back the clock. Followed by a very hungover visit to the Tate Modern.

10 years of LMP: Chapter 2 - January 2014, officially incorporated, with post production operating out of a guesthouse in Nathan’s backyard, LMP is a real company, or at lest becoming one. We were still getting our bearings when Google Brand Studio approached us with a super loose brief - go ask people on the street what they’re searching for and make something cool. With a micro budget and no guarantee the piece would actually ever see the light of day, we were all over it. With a guerrilla 3 person crew, David Terry Fine, Austin Rhodes and a single PA roamed the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn stopping the most interesting people they could find and simply asked “what are you searching for?”

10 years of LMP: Chapter 1 - The Official Snack Nut We didn’t even have an official company name yet when we made this doc style piece for Blue Diamond Almonds in late 2013. Nathan had recently left the White House Post roster, Jeremy had just wrapped up his Head of Production position at Y&R, and we were still waiting for the California Secretary of State to approve LMP’s incorporation paperwork. Y&R knew that the Blue Diamond client loved Jeremy, so they brought him back in as a freelancer to produce this campaign highlighting the brand’s support for the US Olympic Ski and Snowboard Teams. Nathan introduced Jeremy to an unsigned up and coming documentary director named David Terry Fine, who would turn out to be one of LMP’s most prolific creative partners over the next 10 years. David brought in the immensely talented Austin Rhodes to DP, our mutual friend Leslie Valentino did the real hard work - producing the shoot, and the incredible Diana Rothery was there to capture stills and BTS.

New work for @youtube featured globally in their app and on desktop. Special thanks to @sweetjosiebakes, @doublesolitaire.co, @noechavez and the team at YouTube + Google.

🎃 Some throwback Halloween work for Uber 👻 from our friend Adam Avilla @dumpyastronaut

🌵 The Cactus of Klaus drops 10/9 on Nowness🌵 Featuring Mort Garson’s “Plantasia” Directed by Tony Blahd & @lyddypiddy (@doublesolitaire.co) Produced by @doublesolitaire.co & @littlemovingpictures Executive Producer - Jeremy Summer (@littlemovingpictures) Director of Photography - @jonny_look Production Sound Mixer - @billystagg Editor & Sound Designer - Nathan Petty (@littlemovingpictures) Assistant Editor - @calebstumpfl Colorist - @ayumiashleycolor / @raremedium.tv Audio Post - @pico_sound Audio Producer - @ellishawes Additional Sound Design & Re-Recording Mixer - @jamiehunsdale

The Cactus of Klaus, full film on Nowness on 10/9. Directed by Tony Blahd & @lyddypiddy (@doublesolitaire.co) Produced by @doublesolitaire.co & @littlemovingpictures Executive Producer - Jeremy Summer (@littlemovingpictures) Director of Photography - @jonny_look Production Sound Mixer - @billystagg Editor & Sound Designer - Nathan Petty (@littlemovingpictures) Assistant Editor - @calebstumpfl Colorist - @ayumiashleycolor / @raremedium.tv Audio Post - @pico_sound Audio Producer - @ellishawes Additional Sound Design & Re-Recording Mixer - @jamiehunsdale

The Cactus of Klaus. Premiering 10/9 on Nowness Directed by Tony Blahd & @lyddypiddy (@doublesolitaire.co) Produced by @doublesolitaire.co & @littlemovingpictures Executive Producer - Jeremy Summer (@littlemovingpictures) Director of Photography - @jonny_look Production Sound Mixer - @billystagg Editor & Sound Designer - Nathan Petty (@littlemovingpictures) Assistant Editor - @calebstumpfl Colorist - @ayumiashleycolor / @raremedium.tv Audio Post - @pico_sound Audio Producer - @ellishawes Additional Sound Design & Re-Recording Mixer - @jamiehunsdale

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No Pain - Trailer

Check out the trailer for our short doc "No Pain" which is currently making the rounds at festivals (but if you wanna see it and you're a pal, just send us a note :)