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We are seeking to appoint a fixed-term Lecturer or Assistant Professor to join our team for one year. The successful candidates will have a passion for film and media, and a desire to contribute to the success of our students. The position entails teaching a broad range of undergraduate courses in the Department, including introductory courses, within an interdisciplinary environment.*

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Short-term contracts like these dominate the provision of teaching in most contemporary universities, fundamentally reshaping the constitution of academic life. In the USA, as early as the stretch from 1970 to 1987, casualized and part-time teaching1 nearly doubled.2 Taking Canada as another example, hiring statistics for contract faculty who work term-to-term have shot up by 200% since 1999, in comparison to an only 14% increase in new tenure-track professorships.3 At the same time, we witness a distended managerial presence enjoying bloated salaries, the administrators of these very restructurings.

2015

for the Boston Globe

Commissioned by Marjorie Prichard.

Trouble

for Hospitality

Album trailer and graphic design for the band Hospitality on Merge Records.

The Evil Eye

for Josh Ritter

direction/editing/design Phillip Niemeyer
cinematography Dan Forbes
associate Will Styer
starring Katie Flannery and Hilde Skappel
featuring Josh Ritter, Haley Tanner, Greg Rice, Doug Rice and Nicole Smith
make-up Francisca Saavedra
styling Ann Brady
executive producer Darius Zelkha
based on Priestess, Moon, Tower by Ashley Tuccero

Silkscreened poster:
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Double Mono

Double Mono is a vinyl record where the right and left channel play separate sounds. They can be mixed into one song, or listened to separately using the balance knob. The recording features contributions from Palaxy Tracks, John Saba Jr., Devin Maxwell, !!!, Jim Eno, The Octopus Project, AU, and Erin Flannery & Zach Layton.

It's a limited edition print of 300, released by Aagoo records.

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“Icon” Calender

Double Blocks

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The pinnacle of [Red Left Blue Right] appears in the form of a joke, by the show's curator, Phillip Edward Niemeyer. Double Blocks are (roughly) two-inch by two-inch woodblocks with the images of 3-D blocks appearing on the sides in red and blue. It's so meta, right? But Niemeyer's pieces also speak to the concept of 3-D itself. They hold the representation of depth equal to actual depth, or, in other terms, utter distraction equal to useful obstruction. Moreover, the woodblocks themselves are difficult to see through the violently clashing colors.

We might look at Double Blocks as a statement on how we view visual art: Are we fascinated with the object or the ideas the object contains? If the immersion is sensory alone, I'm probably not that interested. Sure, emotion and intellect are accessed and inspired by the senses, but it's the degree to which the senses serve or distort meaning that makes them valuable, and likewise the degree to which the art object affects the senses.

Niemeyer's contribution contains one more twist. The blocks on the blocks aren't 3-D as far as the 3-D glasses are concerned. Rather than imitate a block one could stack another illusionary block on top of, the glasses create a flashing electric violet field that's impossible to hold onto with the eyes.

The vision makes me feel disoriented and a little afraid, like looking through a porthole into an as-yet undefined dimension.

– Matthew Irwin, The Austin Chronicle

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Ginobilli Gothic

Beats, Rhymes + Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

The animation is made of thousands of photographs assembled as layered stop-motions, each synced to the beat of the song. A short documentary about the process accompanies the DVD release.

Made by Phillip Niemeyer & James Blagden at Double Triple, Brooklyn, Winter 2010/11.

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The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance festival and won the audience choice at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Sony Picture Classics theatrically released the film nationwide, Summer 2011. It was nominated for 2012 Grammy in the long-form music video category.

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The Hunt

for Woom

November 2010
direction/editing Phillip Niemeyer
photography Dan Forbes
animation Phillip Niemeyer and Dan Forbes
assistance Katie Briggs, Michelle Forbes, Amelia Grohman, Jane Herships, Sara Magenheimer, Adam McClure, Michael McKoveck, Eben Portnoy, and Sam Zide
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with The Octopus Project

Stop motion animation featuring a day in the life in Brooklyn, New York. How many 0s can you count?

2000-09

for The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/27/opinion/28opchart.html?_r=0

Fish

Fish is a collage system: a set of parts that can be assembled on any flat surface to make a modular narrative. The waves, corral and fish designed to fit into compositions on the fly. The results are like the sea: always the same but always different.

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Yeahs

2009

Direction/Editing/Animation by Phillip Niemeyer & Ryan Junell

Art and concept by Phillip Niemeyer
Sound mix by Ryan Junell

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Yeahs by:
Erin Flannery
Tonya Glanz
Ryan Junell
Tanya Newton-John
King Ad-Rock
Evey Niemeyer
Phillip Niemeyer
Natassje Unger
Tatjana Unger
Ryan Weston
Howard Dean

Charmaine Champagne

with Mike Reddy for The Fiery Furnaces

direction/design/animation/editing Phillip Niemeyer
artwork Mike Reddy
action painting Hannah Cole
assistance Alex Egan, Jeremiah Dickey, Ethan Finklestein, and Chris Nguyen

You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb

for Spoon

Graphics

for Spoon

Graphic designs for the band Spoon between 2007-10. The t-shirt above features Countess Dracula.

"Don't Make Me a Target":

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A three-night-stand in Austin, June 2010, the waxing moon above:

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"Got Nuffin'"

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