With 15+ years working and living in Chicago, Illinois, Samuel Murphy is a filmmaker, video artist, VJ, live music production crew specialist, photographer, and painter who holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Studio Art from the Film, Video, New Media and Animation department and a BS in Digital Cinema specializing in editing and post-production from the University of DePaul.

spliting time between live performances, client based video work, self driven video art filmmaking, and live stage production his focus looks to draw attention to and play with the absurdity and depth of mass and minor media, especially as it relates to the emotional, intellectual, historical and cultural hold it has over humanity.

striving to create places of tranquility through the confluence of moving image and audio by balancing unstable abstraction with narrative nudging, this cross contamination of media forms works to demonstrate the unfortunate perpetuity and lasting power it holds through the physical and psychological happening experienced by our emotional state while under the influence of such media. in addition acting as a futile device in the attempt to set our intellectual and creative states free through the repetition of imagery, subject matter, and story telling. this views the media itself not as a source of negativity or devolution, but as a more neutral body that degrades itself and it’s audience with it over time. never giving it’s audience the one thing they really want: to reach the end.

the work lies heavily in editing and shooting using found footage, VHS, super 8, double 8mm film, and 35mm photography based work, while maintaining high proficiency with digital formats with Blackmagic and canon based systems. he also utilizes his skills in spray and stencil based painting and design, projection mapping, monitor installation, and his many years in the live entertainment and hospitality industries to help input his directionality and creative goals.

he is available for commissioned work in any of the above fields, as well as general consultation and conversation. Feel free to contact him at its.5am.films@gmail.com with any questions or inquiries you may have.

be well.

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Email: its.5am.films@gmail.com

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