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Our trip to Everest Base Camp coincided with the 60th anniversary of Hillary and Tenzing making the first summit of Mt Everest. The Guardian and the Ri Channel commissioned me to edit a film from our footage detailing the extreme environment that the scientists are operating in, and the fascinating work they are taking on.
If anyone else wants to send me up a mountain to make a film I am open to offers.
I recently got to go to the Himalayas for a month to document Extreme everest 2: a research project looking at the effects of low oxygen levels. We started off with a group of awesome kids, and this is a feature we shot for Newsround. I was Director of Photography Greg Foot was the presenter and Editor and the multi-skilled mountain goat Nick Insley was on sound.
One of the last things we filmed in Nepal was this fun episode of HeadSqueeze looking at: whether humans could ever fly, does stress make our hair go grey, and what Pins and Needles actually are...
We made 12 of these in two days so it was pretty intense. LEARN TO FIRE A BRUSSELS SPROUT OUT OF A BAZOOKA and do HOMEMADE CANDY CANES These are all short films for kids, showing them how to make fun science experiments and games for Christmas. I did the filming, the editing was by Dermot at Big Bang Fair
I first heard about this condition during my psychology degree, many moons ago. When I heard about some new research happening at Imperial, I thought it would be a good thing to make a film about. Somehow this ended up with me meeting some lovely couples, a cool neuroscientist, getting a self portrait done and having an arm wrestle.
theaccompanying article is here
This is a slightly unhinged music video I made for Darren Hayman's new album Lido; all about outdoor swimming pools. This film is a bit different from my usual stuff, and it was almost all filmed on a GoPro which was a good experiment. Anyway it's a cool song, and a great album, and I would recommend checking out the Blog http://lidomusic.blogspot.com
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I was really excited to be commissioned to make this film. The artists and participants involved were ace, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. The Midnight Run //
The idea behind the Midnight Run is simple, to negate the frenzy and hysteria of mass media and reality t.v. for actual reality; for the simplicity of walking and talking. To reclaim the streets and rediscover a city after dark, to inhabit its confines of glass, concrete, steel and structure, as a child does a maze; with as much innocence and wonder as is natural.
The Africa Utopia Midnight Run from Inua Ellams on Vimeo.
In the Midnight Run's motto, ‘star’ can be taken literally, or as a metaphor for the city, dwellers, in which case it takes on a beauty and importance:
The Midnight Run // Cause we can't see stars for fumes we turn to smashed glass, believing shards shine like constellations do.
It can be hard to get your head around particle physics, and the Higgs boson so we went to a festival, added spandex jumpsuits, audience participation and dubstep and I think it all makes sense now...
The challenge was to remake a movie in 60 seconds, and we made the shortlist! Please take a look and vote for Number 10. http://www.empireonline.com/awards2012/diss/
It's a 'revisioning' of classic early 90's cinematic masterpiece Point Break.
We have been shortlisted for the Best UK entries.
Please take a look at the film, it is 60 seconds long, so no excuses! Afterwards please take an extra two seconds to click vote underneath, we are listed as
'10. Point Break Thom Hoffman'
Click here to watch the video
Directed by Thom Hoffman
Written by cast
Starring [in order of appearance] Ben Harp - Charlie Hall Johnny Utah - Sam Wong Pappas - Thom Hoffman Tyler - Sam Woolf Bodhi - Geoff Marsh
Music
I Will Not Fall - Wire Train Time of your life - performed by Sam Wong
I love science, podcasts, and making films, so was great to be commissioned to make a fun film advertising the Guardian Science Weekly Live show. It's a live podcast being recorded at the Royal Institution on Wednesday 28 March. You can get free tickets, from here...
It was ridiculously fun to film and edit, and I hope people like it. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Point Break Done in 60 seconds The challenge was to remake a movie in 60 seconds, and we made the shortlist!
http://www.empireonline.com/awards2012/diss/
It's a 'revisioning' of classic early 90's cinematic masterpiece Point Break.
We were shortlisted for the Best UK entries, but didn't win
I wrote a post about making short short films, and you can check out my Culture Badger blog if you'd like to read it.
Directed by Thom Hoffman
Written by cast
Starring [in order of appearance] Ben Harp - Charlie Hall Johnny Utah - Sam Wong Pappas - Thom Hoffman Tyler - Sam Woolf Bodhi - Geoff Marsh
Music
I Will Not Fall - Wire Train Time of your life - performed by Sam Wong
