Recolony: A Short Film by Ryan Junell & Tanya Newton-John

Recolony: A Short Film by Ryan Junell & Tanya Newton-John
June 11th – June 26th, 2011
Opening: Saturday, June 11th, 6pm – 9pm.

 "Recolony" HD 1080p, 30fps, 2 min, Stereographic Anaglyph, 2011. 
Recolony is a twelve chapter tale of creation, abandonment, magical emergence, dis-integration, humanoid fury, and ultimate self-destruction. Once upon a time... humanoids create a great lush forest before moving onwards to create large cities. In the humanoids absence, strange magical creatures emerge quite naturally from the trees. Goblyns, Nomes and Faeries inhabit the forest and live happily and in harmony with each other and their environment. They dance around fires and sing ancient little tunes and chant until... the humanoids return to the forest from the city. They attempt to accept the creatures' presence, but ultimately become annoyed and irritated by the spawn of their forest. The humanoids initiate an all out creature holocaust in an effort to recolonize the forest. Grabbing, hurling, and destroying the creatures one by one, the humanoids finally clear the forest only to realize that the magical creatures *are an essential part of the forest and their death also means the death of the forest itself. Engulfed in flames, the humanoids die along with the forest... mortally sad they meddled with the mysteries of the universe. 

BIO

Ryan Junell (born 1973) is a filmmaker, animator, and media designer living in Southwest Connecticut.

His video work includes artful non-fiction about travel, politics, media, and society. His music videos and music films have appeared in programming on MTV2, MTV Europe, MTV Japan, Sonar Festival (Spain), The New York Underground Film Festival, and numerous theaters and galleries around the world. He has created music videos for bands such as Spoon (Merge Records), Gravy Train!!!! (Kill Rock Stars), The Octopus Project (Peek-a-Boo), and Lesser (Matador). Mr. Junell has also done a ton of web building, print design, zine making, set design for theater, and on-air radio dj'ing (KROC/KIXY/KTSB/KVRX).

Ryan is founder and curator of The SLOMO Video Festival, 100 one minute slow motion short films by 85 filmmakers and video artists from around the world. In 2006, the festival toured to 9 countries and 22 cities and was distributed online independently on DVD. 

Junell recently finished his third animation for Creative Commons and has produced animations for several non profits including H2O, WestEd, and PRX (The Public Radio Exchange).

Other members of the Recolony creative team include:

Tanya Newton-John (born 1972) is an art director, illustrator, and designer.

Bevin Kelley (born 1971) is an electronic musician/multimedia composer and veterinary nurse.

David Van Brink (born 1962) is a programmer and polytinkerophile.