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FILMOGRAPHY
1982-2007
includes
shorts, features, some client and commissioned projects, a few links to Quicktime & Youtube clips.
Quicktime clips may require Quicktime 7
"SpaceDisco One" (2007)
Complete May of 2007. This is it, the last great epic of all time, depending on future prospects of budget issue's possibly the last film i'll ever make.
"Lost
in the Thinking" (2005)
Commissioned
project for a Grizedale
Arts NY Art exhibit in Oct 2004. Began as something (I still don't
know exactly what) much smaller, with no time to complete
and too many computer problems, expanded into a surreal
meditation on hopelessness and pointlessness as guided by
the Arthur Frain/Merlin character from Boorman's "Zardoz".
Chemtrails: An Investigative Report (2004)
6
min short about the dangers of the Chemtrail spraying program,
and it's effects on you. A kind of companion piece to Reflections. "AL's
TECHNO BAR" ( 2004)
Semi-commissioned,
made for a friend. Yet explores an aspect I'd like to take
further on the "Space Disco" project.
ROLLERBOOGIE III, Sunspot Jonze Rap Video's, Gloom, etc (2005)
All
projects contained on "Client Projects II" (main
menu page) were footage supplied by a client (Peter Neil)
for editorial re-shaping and enhancing.
THE UNTITLED STAR WARS MOCKUMENTARY (45min, 2003)
The
documentary Lucasfilm does not want you to see. Completed
6/13/03, has to be seen to be believed. Contrary to some opinions, this WAS all in good fun. There is nothing caustic about any of it, I would hope Lucas himself could have a laugh. It may be a bit much for his kids though, not sure.
Sage
Stallone: Portrait of a Madman (2003)
Basically took some miscellaneous footage
of Sage walking around his apt, stumbling through his parking
garage, etc, and fused it with vintage ABC show promos and
bumpers (1969-1974). This is completely non-planned, fool-around
stuff. I never intended to make this, it just came about thru
some footage collected and experimented with, simultaneous period of making the Star Wars Mock. If Sage's father were to see
this, the ball-peen hammer would be poised to strike again.
GRIZZLY REDUX (2003)
Bill
Girdlers 1976 film revamped with 15min of newly (photographed) original footage
and completely enhanced sound mix. Other "redux's" include Carpenters Dark Star, and Spielberg's Something Evil
however those were mainly sound enhancements only.
REFLECTIONS OF EVIL (136min, 2002)
Made in 2001, after 19 years of making no-budget indie shorts,
this was the first time I FINALLY had something of a budget
to work with, and so far the first and ONLY time, and the
way things are going probably the LAST time. ROE was originally written
as a 60 minute short film called "Night Gallery Revisited",
then things got out of hand and well,... the rest is history.
The
Early 70's Horror Trailer (1999)
Made
for a poultry 1,500 dollars, while using the bus and hawking
watches for film money. This is merely one of those extreme
no-budget experiments I had to 'get out of my system', (as
Ridley Scott said about making "Legend") it had
been some 4-5 years since completing Apple and was long overdue.
Mainly inspired and designed to be a 4 min short film set
to Jerry Goldsmith's "Mephisto Waltz" which then
expanded to 8 min including"Escape from Planet of the
Apes" and Morricone's "Veruschka". An interesting
footnote that Goldsmith has been buried at the very cemetery
I used as a main location in this.
Apple
(30min, 1992-95)
Inspired by Elfquest and the music of The Dark
Crystal,
an epic 30min Sword & Sorcery fantasy film eventually
cut into a much shorter trailer. This is undoubtedly the most
dissatisfying film I've ever made, especially given the time
and trouble which went into making it. I feel the end product
looks like something that could and should have been made
for about 100 bucks in two weeks over a couple weekends of
vacationing in Hawaii. The truth of the matter is it took
over 2 years of living in a tent on the beach, 18 months of
advertising for actors, approximately 8k to finish the film,
and countless other delays & problems given the sporadic
money input. I was out there for 2 years, homeless and 80
pounds lighter (needed to conduce all living expenses into
the film) trying to get my lighthearted elvin fantasy made!
People thought I was loony as a toon ("crazy Howlie!")
Some day I truly hope to make a larger film of this, included
on the original Reflections DVD in the special features or the newer "Mondo" collection.
Dawn of an Evil Millennium
(20min, 1988-89)
Epic Super8 short with a cameo
by Miles O' Keeffe. Lived in my car for some time while financing
this film (this is what happens when all money go's into the
film) A feat which would go even further during the making
of "Apple" several years later, while living in
a tent in Hawaii for 2 years. It was in
actuality three short films (as part of a trilogy) finally
amalgamated into one. Some people people have drawn early
parallels to Reflections on this one but frankly I don't see
any connection at all. This was my no-budget sci-fi/horror/fantasy
in the vein of "Mad Max" and "Evil Dead 2".
I should've gone from this to making million $ feature's!!
What the hell happened? I was at the age Spielberg was when
he got his first directing gig on Night Gallery. It's just
Tragic
The Afterlife/Amazing Stories (14min, 1982-86)
Surviving compilation of early experimental
shorts. Horror-fantasy-sci-fi, pure madness. Amazing Stories
was a little film I began making in '82 (before the mid-80's Spielberg
series) designed as a string of parody vignettes. "The
Afterlife" was a 1983-84 project, basically a Blade Runner
parody. Moody sci-fi film noir with lots of Vangelis cue's.
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The Making of Reflections of Evil
(2001)
CLICK
HERE for a glimpse
Never before seen documentary photographed
during production by documentarist Thad Vassmer.
OTHER MISC
CLIENT PROJECTS (partial list)
SPIELBERG INTRO (for "The Lot" submission)
Ranjan DVD menu Indian Superman parody
dcxlcvi
Visitor Trailer
Melodya
Lords
Broke Sky
SD-ONE
test link
Mini-BIOGRAPHY
Damon
Packard, this is the name that could have been synonymous
with Steven Spielberg. Perhaps in a parallel dimension, but
as things would turn out, not this one.
Born
in Akron Ohio May 4, 1967, Packard grew up in a rural district
of Akron. His father Ray Packard was a professor of fine arts
and highly regarded artist/collector/gallery-owner of Akron.
The Packard Gallery on W. Exchange St was a well known staple
in the 60's & 70's, with it's statue of Minerva and three
Packard automobiles parked in front,
art collectors and other notable clientele (which included
Orson Welles) had frequented the place. Damon remarks; "I
can remember the huge towering figure of Orson Welles with
his cape looming above me, his booming voice---you know Damon
I really enjoy your father's art--it was something else".
Packard's mother Francis was a stage and commercial actress
of Akron who's career was cut short by her passing from a
strange illness in 1968. It can be noted that she had almost
married the actor Kier Dullea some years earlier. Packard
spent his later early years growing up in Chatsworth, CA in Rockpoint and
began making experimental films in 1979 at the age of 11,
the first of which were a series of animated and stop motion
shorts, some made for school credit. In the early 80's he
embarked on a series of overly ambitious productions which included
a project later adopted for Television in the mid 80's by
Steven Spielberg (though there is no direct connection, so why it is mentioned in this bio has no relevance or meaning whatsoever)
Now at age 37 he has moved back with his aging grandmother
in Chatsworth and continues to sneak out of the condominium
in the middle of nights to walk down to the local 7-11 for
processed bacon cheesburgers and video game playage.
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Francis
Pollock, 1968 
Me,
1974 
ladies
man, 1974
