Small Business Calm

"Every joke is a tiny revolution" - Orwell

Sure, Donald Trump has been a dangerous menace. He's also a petty, small, and quite ridiculous person. He even cheats at golf. "Commander in Cheat" turns an interview with legendary sports writer Rick Reilly into an animated short.

We’ve been lucky to tell stories about Creative Growth, a remarkable studio and gallery space for artists with disabilities in Oakland. The place has such a special energy- watching marginalized people find their artistic voice in a nurturing space and seeing the beautiful art that results has been one of our favorite projects. In addition to documenting their annual galas, we’ve also been commissioned by method to make two film and stills campaigns around their branded collaborations with creative growth artists.

Filmed at classrooms in Portland, San Diego and Chicago, It Takes A Teacher was a campaign that profiled educators making innovative use of chromebooks in their classrooms. Whether designing a working prosthetic or running a soap business, these exceptional teachers were used as examples for classrooms across the world.

In addition to the filmed content, Little Moving Pictures was also tasked with capturing stills used in print and online placements- we worked with our friend and frequent collaborator Diana Rothery on this side of the project.

Audience Award for Best Short Documentary, SF IndieFest
Official Selection, LA Shorts Festival
Official Selection, Palm Springs International Shorts Festival

After Ricky LaRocca's release from prison, he needed an outlet for his anger. Becoming a Strongman athlete was that outlet. But during a competition in 2011, a terrible accident altered the course of his career.

The film follows LaRocca's journey seven years after the accident as he looks to make a comeback. LaRocca's goal is to set a deadlift record, but he must contend with debilitating health issues.

As he pushes himself beyond his limits, a dark past starts to unravel.

As a post house, we spend more hours than we’d care to admit scouring stock footage sites for gems. We have been aggregating some of our favorites with the intention of making something experimental. We had been working with Toro Y Moi on a music video and worked with their keyboardist Anthony Ferraro to score our short film “How It’s Goin’” and had been listening to his band Astronauts Etc. when it dawned on us that all that stock could come together as a music video for one of the tracks, “Idleness” from the album Living in Symbol.

“To many of us, a bicycle is just something we ride for fun or to work. But for many young and underprivileged people around the world, a bicycle represents freedom. While writing the song, I imagined I was a boy from a broken home who finally saved up enough money to buy a bike. I pictured how fast he rode, and how empowered he felt, finally able to explore a city that was once limited to only the people and places he could run to. In my mind, he kept riding, maybe forever, away from a black and white reality, into a colorful world of dreams, where he could be anyone and anything he imagined.” - Shungudzo

THE SCRAPER BIKE TEAM
The Scraper Bike Team empowers urban youth living in underserved communities through self-expression and creativity. We encourage youth entrepreneurship and promote healthy, sustainable living for all. The Scraper Bike Team will use each work of bicycle art to impact social justice and global change.

The Draw-A-Scientist Test is an open-ended projective test designed to investigate children's perceptions of the scientist. Originally developed by David Wade Chambers in 1983, the main purpose was to learn at what age the well known stereotypic (male) images of scientists first appear.

With the help of our frequent collaborators All of Us casting we found 20 real families in Chicago who were willing to get vulnerable in front of a camera. Ad Age says “Parents: this Kraft ad will make you cry”. And they’re probably right.

For this project which launched Method’s body wash line, we filmed bodies and ingredients on a sound stage and brought them together to show users how method’s clean ingredients can wash away all the bad stuff life throws at us.

The starting point for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s "Work/Travail/Arbeid" is a simple question: Can choreography be performed in the form of an exhibition? In this new short film by David Terry Fine, dancer/choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker reveals new insights into the complex conceptual, technical, and physical labor that is essential to the practice of dance. We were lucky enough to film two days of the performance/exhibition in the main atrium of the MoMA NYC.

“Yam Yam” is the hit single off No Vacation’s third EP titled Intermission. BOREDOM took on the task to transform their song into a mixed media visual experience. The video is constructed of UHD Digital, Super 8mm Film, and features over 1,000 frames of Hand Painted Watercolor Animation. Through a minimally rich color palette, BOREDOM explored the yin and yang of the modern life emotional experience, the happy and the sad.

One of the best crews/shoots ever.

A lavish gilded age New Jersey theater saved by a dedicated group of local volunteers. A concert performed by musical soul-mates who live on different sides of the world. A pair of filmmakers telling these two idiosyncratic stories in one documentary. This is Friends of Wonder, a different kind of concert film about a concert performed by Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett at the historic Loew’s Theater in Jersey City. Made in partnership with Matador Records and WeTransfer.

Inspired by the amazing Steadicam work from Birdman, this music video was filmed in the historic Brava Theater in San Francisco’s mission district.

A mix of previous campaign footage and fun, unexpected stock footage introduces Allbirds’ latest material- a blend of Trees and Merino wool - Trino.

Sometimes the cars we drive change the way we feel. A great car can even change who you are.