1. Chel White was born on May 30,1959 and is an American film director, composer, screenwriter and visual effects artist.
14 Facts About Chel White
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Chel White often adopts darkly humorous and poetic sensibilities to explore topics of love, obsession and alienation; with dreams and the subconscious being his greatest influences.
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Chel White has worked extensively with film director Gus Van Sant, creating visual effects on several of Van Sant's projects.
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Chel White began directing commercials in 1992, and with a focus in stop motion, began directing television programs in 1999, including two parodies for Saturday Night Live.
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Chel White was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Colorado, Michigan, Stockholm, and Evanston, Illinois where his father was a Northwestern University professor and his mother a schoolteacher.
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Chel White cites his earliest influence as being the Surrealist paintings he was exposed to in grade school when visiting the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Chel White began making independent short films after college, starting with a drawn-on-film animation titled Metal Dogs of India.
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In 1991, Chel White completed Choreography for Copy Machine, an animated film created solely by using the unique photographic capabilities of a photocopier to generate sequential pictures of hands, faces, and other body parts.
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In 2002, as a poetic response to the tragedies of September 11, Chel White created New York to be part of the omnibus collection Underground Zero.
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The films of Chel White have screened in the Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale, IFFR, SXSW, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Annecy Festival, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, HKIFF, SIFF, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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Chel White started his professional career in 1986, working as an animator for film director Jim Blashfield on music videos for Paul Simon, Tears for Fears and Michael Jackson.
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Chel White went on to be visual effects supervisor on Van Sant's Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Paranoid Park, Milk and Restless, as well as title effects supervisor on director Todd Haynes' film, I'm Not There, and the animation sequences in David Oyelowo's feature film, The Water Man.
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Chel White directed two shorts for NBC's Saturday Night Live and Robert Smigel's Saturday TV Funhouse, The Narrator That Ruined Christmas and Blue Christmas.
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In 2006, Chel White directed the music video for Thom Yorke's song Harrowdown Hill.