Masa Gibson (they/them) is a writer, director, actor, editor, sound designer, and composer. Gibson holds a BA in Music from Rutgers University and a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University. They are a classically trained singer and a Meisner-trained actor. After spending time on set as an actor, they migrated to the other side of the camera to try their hand at filmmaking, in collaboration with Smith. More at masagibson.com
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A bottle player gains control over spacetime and plays alongside alternate versions of themself to generate a polyphonous, interdimensional interlude. (Visit the project page to watch the full video.)
What happens when an artist who paints with found objects gives a filmmaker carte blanche to paint with found footage from his phone's video library? (Visit the project page to watch the full video.)
(Original Icelandic title: Hvar hafa dagar lífs þíns lit sínum glatað?) This is a music video for an original song for soprano and glass bottles, composed by Masa Gibson (the third piece in Gibson's Bottlemusick series). The music video follows an artist who has been sleeping through life as he wakes up and confronts loss. (Visit the project page to watch the full video.)
"Glint of Green" is an original song for voice and glass bottles, composed and performed by Masa Gibson. It's the second piece in Gibson's Bottlemusick series. (Visit the project page to watch the full video.)
Who gets to decide what’s valuable? A silent short film about a woman who lives life with a bold twist. (Visit the project page to see the full film, behind-the-scenes photos, and more.)
Seeking a momentary respite from the strains of life in 2020, two strangers from the same building end up on a roof together and make a socially distant connection. Shot on a mobile phone by the sheltering-in-place cast (Visit the project page to see the full film, production notes, and more.)
A man obsessively tracks a spirit who haunts him and leads him from one uninhabited locale to another on a Sisyphean scavenger hunt. (Visit the project page to see the full film, production notes, and more.)
A recovering addict trying to erase the online records of his past transgressions gets a call from a mysterious company that claims it can help him be forgotten—not only by the Internet, but by all the people that ever knew him and by the natural world itself. (Visit the project page to see the full film, production notes, and more.)
We all wear masks. Shot in a single take and entirely in close-up, the film follows eight minutes in the life of a face and its efforts to maintain a public mask in the wake of a scandalous and hurtful revelation. ( Visit the project page to see the full film, behind-the-scenes clips, and more. )
Two gustatory savants meet off-hours in a restaurant to engage in the latest of a series of battles to decide, once and for all, who is the master taster. ( Visit the project page to see the full film, production notes, and more. )
A traveler from another world is geographically lost. A man of this world is spiritually lost. The man offers to help the traveler get where he needs to go, but the traveler struggles to return the favor.
Brothers Mark and AJ Adams catch up over a game of Scrabble as they wait for theirdying grandfather to wake up. As Mark faces the prospect of losing in life as well as inthe game, he decides to take matters into his own hands, unwittingly living out an ancienttale that has reverberated throughout history.
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Abby J. Smith (she/her) is an all-around designer/fabricator, working on all aspects of production design. Smith holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 in NYC. She works in both theatre and film/TV; recent film/TV credits include Blade Runner 2049 (senior model maker and assistant art director for Weta Workshop’s miniatures unit), The BFG (senior model maker), and ITV’s Thunderbirds Are Go! (senior model maker and art department miniatures technician). More at abbyjsmithdesign.com