06/25/2025
Looking back at ‘Overlooking a Fall’ and the artistic process;
1. This painting is part of an animation. For the video I wanted to use some effect to transition from a cityscape to a dreamscape and so I thought rather than using some pre-programmed thing that looks like a filter, I revisited my fascination with an animation. I took the final shot from the scene, and projected it onto a panel that I painted with green screen paint, after that I thinly traced the outlines of details with a mechanical pencil, so thin that the camera would not pick it up on the next shots I would take. From there, I would paint a few strokes, step back and take a picture and repeat. I did this a lot, and all throughout one night because I was afraid that if the paint dried, it would change the color.
So the image is of the final painting, after all the layers are built up.
2. This is the green screen painting wired on top of the City shot. You can see your ads are very interesting texture.
3. this is a clip from the second half of the film. Dreamy! And that’s good, that was the goal.
This short film is a part of a series of short films called ‘Psyche’s Lullaby’, written , performed & directed by me. Right now there’s 3 episodes online. The goal was to keep on filming, but those of you know the scope of my work and the tight funding. It’s not always easy to make this sort of thing happen. That said I still plan on picking up where I left off and plan on continuing the project how I intended. When the time is right, I suppose. Several of them are already written out, just waiting.
Thanks for looking!
All episodes on www.jlmaas.space
Costumes by .l.maas
Thanks to the film crew!
aerial .film
In some of the layered parts like the effect, sparkles and clock are shots from
The sound was a mix of (I used to go buy Some Dead Lady’s Drama), with Zach Martin / Drums and / edits
And for the dance scene;
Domanique Amelia Gregory
/ dancer
