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ABOUT ME
- Stop motion bio above. Slightly more traditional bio below.ABOUT SYLVIA
Sylvia Sether (in no particular order) is director/writer and aspiring philanthropist. She first honed her craft directing low-budget music videos for indie rock bands such as ‘Sabrosa Purr,’ ‘All Wrong & The Plans Change,’ ‘Quarry Hill', and 'Greg Laswell.' She's also an avid photographer who continues to shoot film on both her NIKON FE2 and more recently a C330 Mamiya.
In 2009 she was one of eight women to be selected for the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop For Women. In 2011 she was one of six people chosen by The Los Angeles County Museum Of art for it's annual Young Director's Night. Her short film OVERDRAWN won the Art Of Film Award for Best In Show.
She's currently in fundraising for her next short film KING OF NORWAY as well as working on a handful of other projects, including the feature versions of both OVERDRAWN and KING OF NORWAY. She hopes to get her first feature off the ground within the year.
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DIRECTOR'S REEL
- Montage of music video work. For narrative reel please email.
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MUSIC VIDEOS
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SHORT FILMS
- OVERDRAWN (2010)OVERDRAWN is a story about a young woman who's reached her personal limit. Attempting to get through another mediocre day as a single, unsatisfied and broke bank teller, Emma is pushed to the edge and compelled to re-chart the course of her life.A short film directed by Sylvia Sether through the American Film Institutes Directing Workshop For Women. Sylvia was one of eight women selected for the program. Co-Written by Jeff Kent and Sylvia Sether.Original Score by Mohawk & Elsinore.Since it's initial screening at the Directors Guild Of America, Overdrawn has screened at Malibu International Film Festival, Breckenridge Festival Of Film, Los Angles Women's International Film Festival and AceFest in NYC. Most recently it screened at The Los Angeles County Museum Of Art (LACMA) as a part of their annual Young Directors Night. The film won the Art Of Film Award for best in show.Please feel free to shoot me an email if you'd like to see the short. We are currently doing rewrites of our feature length version of the script in hopes of shooting it later this year.KING OF NORWAY (2012)'King Of Norway' is a short film inspired by a true story. It's set to shoot summer 2012. It has fiscal sponsorship through a non-profit organization called Fractured Atlas. For more information visit fractured atlas.com
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Polaroid Project 2007
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Posts
There’s a quote by the French poet Paul Valery; he said, ‘a poem is never finished, only abandoned.’ You could edit a film for the rest of your life and still keep changing it and changing it, but at a certain point it leaves your hands and you send it off to military school, or whatever; it’s gone, it’s on its own, you know. You kick it out of the house and it’s gone, and it has to live in the world itself. I have a personal motto that it’s hard to get lost if you don’t know where you’re going. I really believe that intuition is the real guide. Therefore to me my work as a filmmaker is a process and there is no destination; it’s like the Buddhist saying, the path is the destination. I really feel that way. I loved it when they asked Kurosawa, when he was in his eighties, when would he stop making films, and he said, ‘as soon as I figure out how to do it.
jim jarmuschIf we divide into two camps—even into violent and the nonviolent—and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact.
― Ayya Khema- In honor of National Poetry Month...
‘How to Meditate’ by Jack Kerouac
-lights out-
fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous
ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,
the gland inside of my brain discharging
the good glad fluid (Holy Fluid) as
i hap-down and hold all my body parts
down to a deadstop trance-Healing
all my sicknesses-erasing all-not
even the shred of a ‘I-hope-you’ or a
Loony Balloon left in it, but the mind
blank, serene, thoughtless. When a thought
comes a-springing from afar with its held-
forth figure of image, you spoof it out,
you spuff it off, you fake it, and
it fades, and thought never comes-and
with joy you realize for the first time
‘thinking’s just like not thinking-
So I don’t have to think
any
more’ The band (The Donnie The Amy’s) put together this video out of some B & W (3200) photos I took at their last show.
- The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice —
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do —
determined to save
the only life you could save.~ Mary Oliver ~ Day thirty something: A photo of some visual inspiration for this rewrite (rewrite AKA — I want to slam my head into a wall.)
Love this. “St. Augustine said, “Determine what God has given you, and take from it what you need, the remainder is needed by others.” That’s my philosophy in a nutshell, which is consistently reflected in nature. But our culture encourages us to take as much as we can, to amass fortunes that sit idle in bank accounts while others starve (and nature is abused in the process!) This is a fear-based philosophy that has us worrying more about our future than the needs of the present day, to the point that many of us, as Thoreau said, “make ourselves sick in order to lay up something for a sick day.” I simply believe that my future problems (which is why we save money in the first place, just in case we get sick, or have no work, etc…) are trumped by some one else’s present need for food, shelter, medicine and/or education. If that feared and dreaded “someday” comes, I will trust God and life that others will meet that need as I have tried to meet theirs.
Tom ShadyacI believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
~Marilyn Monroe
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Tweets
- Hello Atlanta. http://t.co/Oxv8I6UW
- @reedmorano @morrisondp She is an AMAZING talent!
- Just saw Sound Of My Voice and it was awesome. Please support indie films and see it while it's still in the theater!!!
- I just caught a squirrel eating a bag of chips in my kitchen. #iwishiwasjoking
- Photo: Whiskey & writing. http://t.co/0Nrsog97
- Photo: Birthday girl party foul.#cassiepappas http://t.co/nh6xVbcn
- Beautiful. “@brainpicker A Cinematic Meditation on the Human Condition-http://t.co/QSnENbxX”
- @hollymiranda Photo safari. Just saying. #JT
- I'm directing a short this summer called @Kingofnorway_ and would really appreciate it you peeps liked our fb page. http://t.co/FEt98PklApr 30, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- This guy. #monkey http://t.co/rlzFaQYA
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Posts
- Mar 31, 12
- Feb 21, 12
HOWDY! (yup, I said howdy) I had the pleasure of directing a video for Greg Laswell’s new INCREDIBLE single ‘Come Back Down’ (with Sara Bareilles). You can watch the video and download the single for FREE @ greglaswell.com (seriously, the song is SO good, go get it!) Huge thanks to Nicole Martin, Greg Laswell and my amazing team: DOP - VanNessa Manlunas Producers - Elena Woodhead Fiona Walsh Cat Wrangler: Seal Sanchez Colorist: Aidan Standford.
- Feb 20, 12
Working on lots of fun stuff right now, including our feature script for OVERDRAWN, and a new photo project I will begin on February 23rd. I’ll update with a link to another new project tomorrow.
SIDE NOTE: I just got a 7D camera package with Nikon prime film lenses. It’s available for rent if you or anyone you know needs a camera for your shoot. Comes with batteries, monitor, lenses and cards. Email me for more info.
- Jan 02, 12
I can’t believe it’s 2012. When did that happen? Either way, I’m excited for this new year. Just wrapped production on two music videos and we’re shooting one more in a few weeks. We’re also putting together a indie go-go video to begin fundraising for my next short film King Of Norway which we plan to shoot March/April this year and we’re working away on several features, one of which we hope to get off the ground by the Fall. Stay tuned for more info on all of the above and more. Wishing you all a beautiful New Year.
- Sep 07, 11
In the spring I had the pleasure of working on MTV’s new show AWKWARD assisting Director Ryan Shiraki on three of the twelve episodes. I highly recommend tuning in on Tuesday at 11pm. The cast and crew are amazing people and the show is funny as hell with a lot of heart. http://www.mtv.com/shows/awkward/series.jhtml
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