Donnie Rose (2021)
16mm - ink animation - videographicsDonnie Rose retells the vibrant, short, and tragic life of runaway fourteen-year-old Donnie; the film explores the queer origins of the nascent Los Angeles punk scene, and how Donnie found family among the outcast teens living on the streets of Los Angeles in 1978.
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference at UCLA, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Big Muddy Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], San Diego Underground Film Festival, Moviate Underground Film Festival.
Drew Blood Press Limited - Spring 1995
Soil is an examination of a 1978 cold case in which the remains of a still unidentified girl, were found off the side of a rural road in San Diego California, on Valentine's day.
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“How did you get out there that late? On Valentine’s day?”
I wish I remembered the color her ears turned when the sun
shown through them, I wish I remembered what hairs fell
down the back of her neck when she pulled it up into a ponytail.
I wish I could write it all down in a big hardback book
with her name and birthday and family tree. Do you think
her mom kept her baby teeth?
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“How did you get out there that late? On Valentine’s day?”
I wish I remembered the color her ears turned when the sun
shown through them, I wish I remembered what hairs fell
down the back of her neck when she pulled it up into a ponytail.
I wish I could write it all down in a big hardback book
with her name and birthday and family tree. Do you think
her mom kept her baby teeth?
Ink & Pastel / Super 8mm film
Completed in BFA2 production workshop & Queer Crit Potluck, at CalArts
If you have any information about the Otay County Jane Doe case, please refer to the contact information on the Doe Network's website:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/857ufca.html
Development
An early visual/tone test for Soil made in 2018 - repurposed as a trailer for the film’s online release
Concept work -
Concept work -
2/2/18 & 11/11/18: Sunday orange grove walk, before baptism, at home in Redlands CA, 19 years old in 2018
Ink & tissue paper / VHS footage
Completed in Animation Identity & Authorship, at CalArts
figeater was made as a response to the first film I made in 2016 called Figs - figeater reinterpetes my realtionship to my grandparents & extended family as an adult.
Figs is viewable here: Figs - by Sammy Lamb from CalArts CAP on Vimeo.
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Figs is viewable here: Figs - by Sammy Lamb from CalArts CAP on Vimeo.
figeater beetles on my grandparent’s fig tree - now cut down
Still sitting in the throat, rolling slowly to wrists and fingertips and backs of eyes.
Happy New Year, Happy 19th birthday
Happy New Year, Happy 19th birthday
Object stop-motion / pencil rotoscope / VHS footage
Completed in BFA1 production workshop, at CalArts
Development
All American boy & punk rock poet Drew Blood was fighting to survive AIDS in Riverside, California in the 1990s.
This film is animated solely with cuttings from Drew's expansive archive of self published poetry zines from 1980 to his death in 1996.
Bye & Love Drew Blood was featured alongside Donnie Rose at the 119th Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference at UCLA
This film is animated solely with cuttings from Drew's expansive archive of self published poetry zines from 1980 to his death in 1996.
Bye & Love Drew Blood was featured alongside Donnie Rose at the 119th Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference at UCLA
Archival collage / Super 8mm film
Completed in the Community Arts Partnership animation program
Development material
