Welcome to the RichardSidey.com Digital Media Gallery Last Updated: November 17th, 2011
SHORT FILM & DOCUMENTARY
Bikes for Africa | Official Website |In Production (due early 2012) A documentary on two young adventurers, Hap Cameron and Mandy Todd, and their mission to take a shipping container full of secondhand donated bikes from Melbourne to a remote Namibian community and implement it as a bike workshop. Bikes for Africa will look how life changes in rural Africa with the use of a bicycle. First tho, there are 5000km's of harsh, dry, windy terrain for the couple to cycle through to get there. Official Site.
Landscapes at the World's Ends (2010) | Official Website |Available on DVD A cinematic non-verbal experiential film triptych depicting the Earth's spectacular polar regions. Set to an Arctic inspired score by Boreal Taiga and part nature doco, part visual meditation, this film was designed to create an individual experience to each viewer by transporting them to the ends of the world without the significent cost and enviromental impact of travel. Read More...
* Best Cinematography (NZ) - Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival 2011
* Special Mention - Documentary Edge Film Festival 2011
Credits | Cinematography, Editing & Production - Richard Sidey | Music - Boreal Taiga
Aeon (2004) | Official Website Aeon is a experimental time based 13-minute landscape documentary of Wellington City, New Zealand, the objective being to portray new perspectives of time that can be witnessed amongst the environment. Aeon views the city as a living and breathing entity, and reveals it through a Zen influenced eastern perspective. Created as part of Massey University Wellington's Bachelor of Visual Communication Design.
* Best Short Film (NZ) - DocNZ Film Festival 2005
* Best Student Film - American Conservation Film Festival 2007
Credits | Cinematography, Editing & Production - Richard Sidey | Music - Strike
MUSIC VIDEOS
Miriama Young - Inner (2011) | Official Website Inner is a collaboration between filmmaker Richard Sidey and Scottish-based musician Miriama Young. The majority of filming took place in Iceland in September, 2011 to fit alongside some footage from Lake Wanaka, Sidey's home amongst New Zealand's Southern Alps. Miriama Young is a composer, vocalist, sound artist, and scholar. She collaborates across disciplines with works for film, radio and interactive electronic music for dance. She has a particular interest in composing for the voice, in works that range from pop song to opera, song cycle to spoken word.
Credits | Video - Richard Sidey | Composition, Vocals & Harmonium - Miriama Young
Percussion - Chuck Staab | Guitar - Mark Dancigers | Bass - Ken Pendergast
Hazel Boot - Home (a pinhole video) | Official Website 'Home' is an artistic collaboration between two New Zealand creatives, singer / songwriter Hazel Boot and independent filmmaker Richard Sidey, in response to the Christchurch Earthquakes, where the two artists have called home. Filmed entirely on a makeshift pinhole camera, the video was recorded on the Pacific coast in Sydney, looking over the ocean towards New Zealand. The next day Richard edited the footage onboard a 3-hour flight back to Christchurch, 12,000 feet above the Tasman Sea.
Credits | Video - Richard Sidey | Music - Hazel Boot | Still Photography- Aliscia Young
Hana Fahy - Slide (2011) | Official Website Music video for Hana Fahy's track Slide from her 2010 album World Still Turns. This video is a stop-motion frame-by-frame animation using paper, paint, pencils and a still camera. Click for more...
* Festival Selection - AllShorts Film Festival 2011
Credits | Video - Richard Sidey | Music - Hana Fahy | Additional Painting - Aliscia Young
Brian Rein Morris - The Best It's Ever Been (2008) An apocalyptic video set in the icy depths of a nuclear winter.
Grønlapse (2009) A compilation of time lapse photography recorded onboard the M/V Prince Albert II as she sailed through Greenland in late 2009. Some of this footage was later used in my short film "Landscapes at the World's Ends." This short clip captures rapid ice movement at the terminal face of Jakobshavn Glacier near Ilulissat and gets a glimpse of the Aurora Borealis as captured from a ship. Filmed on the Canon 5D Mark II.
Credits | Video - Richard Sidey | Music - Boreal Taiga
Transit through the Panama Canal (2009) A complete transit through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This time lapse compresses the eight-hour journey into two minutes. Watch as the ship passes through three sets of locks, gets hounded by a dark clouded thunder storm and then descends into the Pacific Ocean.
Credits | Video - Richard Sidey
Voyage up the River Thames, London (2010)
A time lapse of a voyage up the River Thames to London's Tower Bridge and back again on the M/V Prince Albert II.
Credits | Video - Richard Sidey
JUST FOR FUN / STUDENT WORKS
Action at Both Ends (2006) Made for the 48 Hour Film Competition in 2006 by our Dunedin based team "Daddy Cool".
Credits | Film Production - Daddy Cool / Taylormade Media | Camera - Richard Sidey | Actors - Richard Quirk, Jo Holley, Ben Fahy & Ryan Inglis
Daily Planner (2003) Hmm... Perhaps this was my 'Student Art House' period. Comleted during my Visual Communication Design degree at Massey University.
Credits | Video - Richard Sidey | Actors - Michelle Boyd, Stewart Gollan, Campbell Wrenn & Nic Simcox
Such a Perfect Day (2004)
A stop motion commerical shot in the backyard. Caution blood.
Credits | Video - Richard Sidey & Michael O'Keefe
If you're really keen even more videos, time lapse, nature clips etc can be found on my YouTube and Vimeo channels, or check out my blog for my current work.
