Pan Left Productions

I saw this video that was made by "SyntheticHuman Pictures is a Phoenix, Arizona based group of filmmakers, dedicated to creating content that inspires imagination and evokes emotion". I really like it, but it also made me think that since this is an election year that maybe we should come up with some videos along the lines of this one. It could be a chance to practice your skills or gain new ones and it could be fun! Oh wait, that's F.U.n???

Here it is, the featurette. I give you my word this is the only place in the known universe where I will post it...

At the end of February I was supposed to perform live audio and video under my pseudonym, Charismatic Megafauna, at the Dry River experimental art festival, FLOOD. However, I was so busy that I didn't have time to prepare, so instead I showed a slide show with narration that humorously "explained" why I wasn't able to perform, then played a previously made video piece. For y'alls entertainment, this is that slide show turned into a video.

As you may or may not be aware, the Indymedia Newsreal, a half-hour TV program, is produced with the help of Pan Left member time and equipment every month. I take submissions from vdeoactivists around the world to create each episode, but lately I've been getting fewer and fewer contributions. This is a special video message in which I try to humorously and cleverly persuade more videographers to participate.

Groove on w/ the baby VlogStars!

On the last couple days of the year I have started getting into retrospective mode and remembered another humorous Esteban Caliente piece that I started back in June and never finished editing. So I decided to finish it up.

Damali Ayo, a performance artist in NYC, created the concept of having a day for panhandling for slavery reparations, where people would go out on the streets of their town and ask white folks for mon

Not everyone noticed it, but at the party I set up the Panasonic camera to shoot in timelapse mode, half a second every half-minute, during most of the party. This is the results.

At the 2007 G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, intrepid investigative journalist Esteban Caliente deftly made his way into the most high-security zone in the world to bring you the news....

On a road to Heiligendamm, Germany, where world leaders are meeting to decide the fate of humanity, celebrated TV personality Esteban Caliente gives a live report from the barricades.