Short Film shot in 2024, currently in post production
Writter/Director: Patrick Brooks
Producer: Meryl O’Connor
Temporary color correction on stills
The production design for this film consisted of designing, building, and dressing two small sets on a soundstage: a kitchen in a small New York city rental apartment, and a bed room in a family house in Connecticut that has remained unchanged for many years.
Short Film
Writer, Director, Editor: Meryl O’Connor
Producers: Meryl O’Connor, Patrick Brooks, Pedro Garcia
Director of Photography: Patrick Brooks
Starring: Oliver Ralli and Elizabeth Sun
This film takes place in Ethan and Vera’s apartment, which I designed and built on a soundstage. The apartment is a small New York one-bedroom that the characters have lived in for a few years. They have decorated by painting, moving plants in, and hanging artwork by friends. The layout is designed to enhance the ominous tone of the film, with doors at the backs of the characters, architectural elements that box them in, obscured windows, and many reflective surfaces. The film also features a sequence of abstracted overlapping images, which we filmed in a fish tank.
The stage prior to our build
Progress on the build
Working in the roughed-out living room
Hanging art with set decorator Elise Allum
Short Film 2024
Writer/Producer/Actor: Bennett Hoffman
Director: Ivica Marc
Director of Photography: Jackson Clark
Producer: Robert Patricio
Actor: Whitney George
Official Selections: San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival, Berlin Indie Film Festival
The production design for this film consisted of dressing the beautiful location with items that show that the characters have recently moved into their home and are in the process of meticulously arranging their space. The set dressing changes over the course of the film to indicate the passage of time as the characters settle in. The props work consisted of sourcing and aging multiple trash cans, creating a distinct demonic trash can which functions as a prop and character in the film, as well as sculpting outlandish trash piles.
SOME STILL SEARCH follows the simultaneous stories of a woman in ICE detention, and the 5-year-old boy she’s left behind.
Festival selection includes Toronto International Film Festival 2021 and Palm Springs International Film Festival 2022, among many others.
Producer: Katie Schiller
Director of Photography: Anthony Carella
Editor: Paul Rowe
Gaffer: Dave McCabe
Costume Designer: Mare Good
Starring: Wilmer Puerto and Sonnei Garces
The production design for this short film included converting an empty cargo van into a ICE detention van, transforming a living room into a bedroom for two itinerant men, and scouting and dressing locations. For the van, I designed and built the screens and benches, altered the window openings and removed an upholstered floor. For the bedroom, I textured, painted and distressed the walls; plugged a doorway with a wild window wall; and brought in all the set dressing and props.
Short Film, 2022
When Jordan realizes he can’t leave his depressed mother home alone for the day, he brings her with him... on a college geology field trip.
Writer, Director: Patrick Brooks
Producer: Lauren Gaskill
Director of Photography: Leigh Underwood
Editor: Meryl O’Connor
Music Video
Directed by Veronique Halbrey and Nicholas Bullock
Cinematography by Alexa Wolf
Editing by Bridget Johnson
Costumes by Diego Montoya
Makeup by Malisa Khamphong
Shot on location in Brooklyn
The Production Design consisted of developing vignettes from prompts in collaboration with the directors: Red World, Plant World, Office World, Plastic World, Space World. I proposed ideas for developing each vignette, gathered materials, and dressed the sets.
The Cave Machine is on the hunt for big data.
A short experimental film written, directed, shot and edited by Meryl O’Connor.
Shot on location in Vermont.
The Production Design included location scouting; costume design including the fabrication of the illuminated mask; and props development in collaboration with the director.
While vacationing with her family at a mountain lake, teenager Vivian becomes entangled with a boy at the neighboring house… and his remote control drone.
A short film written and directed by Patrick Brooks
Produced by Patrick Brooks and Meryl O’Connor
Cinematography by Douglas Gordon
Edited by Patrick Brooks and Meryl O’Connor
Shot on location in New Hampshire.
Official Selection 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival
