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Synopsis
Paul addresses the loss of his index finger by withdrawing into a kaleidoscope of memories involving tickles, picked noses, and unforgiving elevator buttons.
“Fingers is a [...]

“One Room in Kansas City holds 317,000 records. Come inside.”
Momentum & Marr chronicles the history and dramatic growth of the Marr Sound Archives in Kansas City, which has maintained the American Experience in sound by collecting and preserving over 317,000 sound recordings in just over 20 years.
The student project was funded by a students engaged [...]

Pageantry looks at beauty through the eyes of a teenage girl entering a modeling competition.
When the filmmaker’s sister enters the 2007 Seventeen Reader Model Contest, a casual recorded conversation about her motivation leads to a unique perspective about beauty and body image.
The film documents her evolution, using a collage of contemporary and archival footage to [...]

Art on the Block is a 20:00 documentary that puts a human face on art as agent of urban renewal. Through the parallel voices of artists, average citizens and a commissioning corporation, Art on the Block connects Midwest talent, civic pride and for-profit philanthropy.
Art on the Block documents the work of ten Midwest [...]

Directed, Shot, Edited, and Colored by Jordan Kerfeld
Music by Biarchy
“Alluring…jarringly lucid…The scene is chaste on the outside, yet the mood is undeniably voyeuristic. With fast cutting that pulses to the music, it could be an outtake from a Guy Ritchie version of Lolita.”
“Alluring…jarringly lucid…The scene is chaste on the outside, yet the mood is undeniably [...]

The Kansas City Based documentary “Your Right, Your Life” is an 11-minute film that features powerful interviews with domestic violence survivors and their family members. Executive produced by the City of Kansas City Human Rights Commission and produced by Vision Teleproduction, Inc., the engaging video provides a catalyst for our community to learn about domestic [...]

Stop Motion Animation Class Assignment – 2007.

Photographic animation experiment.
To combat the boredom of being sick in the spring, I pulled out a cheap point and shoot digital camera (with an absolutely pathetic refresh rate, by the way) and decided to do a quickie animation of some interesting, abstract shadows fluttering on the wall before sunset. 89 frames (and a few color-grading [...]

A series of stop-motion exercises strung together into a loose narrative about one woman’s final morning ritual.  A companion piece of sorts to Pageantry, completed as a student at UMKC.
Stop Motion Animation – 96 seconds – 2007

“Sitting at the Big Table.” 90 Seconds.
From the video description: I think everyone remembers being a kid at the big Thanksgiving or some other family get together. It is pretty common for the adults to sit at one table and the kids to sit at another table. I always wanted to sit at the table [...]

Software Developers Cause Their Own Problems. 2 Minutes.
My best friend’s father is a software economist. Using my old one chip DV camcorder, we cranked out some lively interviews about the problems and ambiguities of software development. Both videos have attracted over 600 hits in the few months of their lives online and I’m sure the [...]