Near the southern tip of Topsail Island, NC you'll find a typical small town post office. But, if you climb the stairs the second floor, you'll find a roller skating rink that is over 50 years old. Behind the counter of both the post office and the rink you'll find Miss Doris. "All Skate, Everybody Skate" is a portrait of a woman in her late seventies who has known hard times and met them with head-on with grit and an extraordinary work ethic that has kept her climbing that wooden staircase each evening to rent and repair skates, spin vintage 45s, and weave smoothly in-between the tourists in her white skates with the red wheels.
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Screenings and Awards
Full Frame Film Festival- 2017
RiverRun International Film Festival- 2017
Indie Grits Film Festival- 2017
Woods Hole - 2017
University Film & Video Association Annual Conference - 2017
DC Shorts - 2017
Rivers Edge Film Festival - 2017
Dublin Doc Fest - 2017
Carrboro Film Festival - WINNER Excellence in Filmmaking Award - 2017
South Georgia Film Festival - 2018
Praxis Film Festival - 2018
Film Night on Clay Street
Elon University screening in Turner Theatre
Credits
Producer/Director/Cinematography/Editor - Nicole Triche
Additional Cinematography by Matthew Carter & Amy Cleckler
Editing Assistance by Alexis Bravos
Sound Mix by Piper Kessler
Colorist by Nicholas Levanti
Composers by the claudes
Dennis Harris and Wendy Christensen have built lives around a vocation many people never even consider: taxidermy. Harris owns a studio in rural Michigan where he constructs gravity-defying suspension mounts, and Christensen is one the few remaining full-time museum taxidermists in the country. Both are fixtures at the biennial World Taxidermy Competition. Taxidermists is a window into an often overlooked but surprisingly vibrant world of art, science, and competition.
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Screenings and Awards
Milwaukee Film Festival-2014
MASH Cinema–2014
Cucalorus Film Festiva– 2013
University Film & Video Association Annual Confrence– 2013
WINNER Award of Merit (1st Place) Faculty Short Documentary
Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival– 2013
Durham Cinematheque– 2013
Indie Grits Film Fesetival– 2013
RiverRun International Film Festival–2013
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival– 2013
Atlanta Film Festival– 2013
Cinequest Film Festival– 2013
Credits
Producer/Director/Cinematography/Editor - Nicole Triche
Music by The Claudes
The Bars & Tone Experiment
The Bars & Tone Experiment is a series of five experimental shorts that features the music of independent bands. Each film has a unique style and subject including stop-motion animation, persistence of vision, hand-painted 16mm leader, found footage and breakdancing.
experiment 001 – Leader
Leader is a short experimental film that was created by the hand-painting clear 16mm leader. The individual frames combine to form abstract imagery that at times flashes by with psychedelic fervor and at times freezes on a single splash of color. The film was partially inspired by Maple Stave's 'I Will Fire When I Am Goddamn Good And Ready' which is the soundtrack.
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experiment 002 – Thaumatrope
Thaumatrope is a short experimental film that was created through the magic of the persistence of vision. Individual silhouettes of birds are shown flying through the slits of a zoetrope, a bird seems to be caged because of the spinning of a thaumatrope, and a flipbook gives the illusion of flight. The film was partially inspired by Wembley’s “Crumbs” which is the soundtrack.
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experiment 003 - Wire
Twenty-one pieces of wire in gold, silver, and copper twist and coil in time with the sweet, sad melody.
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experiment 004 – Spaceman
Spacemen is an experimental short that merges new footage with archival NASA film to form a relationship between the first monkey in space and a would-be space traveler. The film was partially inspired by The Port Huron Statement’s 'Homecoming Parade' which is the soundtrack.
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experiment 005 – Science
Science is a dance film that combines the traditionally African American art form of breakdance with the traditionally white art form of heavy metal. The film was partially inspired by Grappling Hook’s “I Judge You Not O Juggernaut” which is the soundtrack.
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Screenings and Awards
Indie Grits Film Festival- 2010
The Strange Beauty Film Festival-2010
“North Carolina Visions”, independent film series broadcast on statewide public television network
UNC-TV- 2009
Carolina Film & Video Festival- 2009
Cucalorus Film Festival-2008
100 Mile Film Series- 2008
filmSPARK-2008
The St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival-2009
Meredith Film Festival (Wire)-2014
Alicefest (Wire) -2013
Animation/Experimental/Mixed Film- 2009
Broadcast Educators Association Festival of Media Arts- Third Place
Credits
Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor - Nicole Triche
We often take for granted the amazing tools that live on the end of our arms–but every day, our hands accomplish tasks ranging from the menial to the sublime. This clever black-and-white film examines the power of the human hand with the aid of an orthopedic surgeon, jazz pianist, origami artist, sign language interpreter, classical guitarist, henna hand-painter, baseball umpire and magician.
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Screenings and Awards
Asheville Film Festival- 2006
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival-2007
River Run Film Festival- 2007
Scene First Student Film Festival- 2007
filmSPARK-2007
Flicker Film Festival-2007
Carolina Film and Video Festival-2007
The Light Factory’s Regional Filmmakers Showcase-2007
Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series-2007
UFVA Conference- 2007
Sidewalk Film Festival-2007
Flicker Film Festival- 2007
Hi Mom! Film Festival-2008
Ava Gardner Film Festival- 2008
Flicker Film Festival - 2008
North Carolina Visions- 2008
Sugarfix Mix, The People’s Channel- 2008
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival15th Anniversary Selections- 2012
Celebration of North Carolina Arts at the North Carolina Museum of Art-2010
Winner, Best Student Film, Asheville Film Festival
Winner, Best Experimental Film, Scene First Student Film Festival
Credits
Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor - Nicole Triche
