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Shadowcat Pictures · Short · 2024 · 5 min

Con Te Partiro (Time To Say Goodbye)

1000s of rotating lights beneath moving streams of water perform to a timeless duet featuring Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman.

Written & directed Alden Gillespy
Camera Canon EOS Rebel t7i
Runtime 5 min
Year 2024

I write it, shoot it, cut it, grade it, and score it. Then I build the site it lives on.

Shadowcat Pictures is the part of my work you can watch. It isn't a side hobby that happens next to the engineering — it's the same instinct pointed at a different surface. Both are about controlling the whole chain, and both are judged the same way.

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Fig. 1 — Different pipeline, same grammar as the engineering. One operator in every box. The difference: that one forks; this one doesn't — if any link in a film breaks, there is no film.
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Director
Alden Gillespy
Cinematography
Alden Gillespy
Editor
Alden Gillespy
Colour
Alden Gillespy

Yes, it's the same name six times. That's the point. I learned to do every job on a set because I could never afford to hire anyone to do them, and it turned out to be the most useful thing that ever happened to me. It's the same reason I can take a product from an empty repository to a running business without a team.

01Narrative short filmScript through delivery, including the score
02Portrait & documentary photographyAvailable for commission
03Brand films for foundersThe kind that don't look like brand films
04Broadcast identity & soundThree stations, all of it made in-house

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