Author Archives: Neville Elder
The Last Picture Show
‘Anamnesis’, was screened at Hunter College’s Spring 2022 thesis show! (Photos by Natalie Conn)
The End in Sight
As I enter into my final semester at Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts program, I’m doing a little house cleaning. Perhaps avoiding finishing my thesis! I started in my first film for my MFA in Fall 2018, and I finally finished post production yesterday! Anyone who has worked with me will know I work fastContinue reading “The End in Sight”
Anamnesis [Part One] to screen at DOCNYC
Great news! My strange little film will be included in Hunter College’s showcase at DOCNYC this year. It’s showing with other films by Lidiya Kan, Nicole Barreras, Jacqueline Wade and Kim Maxine Baglieri at the preeminent New York film Fest
Anamnesis [Part One] wins best short!
The Chicago International Film Festival (CSIFF) awarded ‘Anamnesis [Part One]’ ‘best short doc’ this month and earlier this month the film was awarded the National Board of Review’s Student Award 2021..which I have to say, was nice.
‘Anamnesis’: An Hybrid Documentary
Remembering the trauma of my best friends death does not come easily, and sometimes not at all. Memory is fickle at the best of times. In my film using found footage I retell the past trauma of a childhood tragedy, but find myself ambushed by my own heart, spinning a yarn of white lies andContinue reading “‘Anamnesis’: An Hybrid Documentary”
“Will there be Women at my Funeral?” Winner best short film, Louisville International Festival of Film!
Nice surprise to be selected, even nicer to win ‘shorts’ category 🙂 Watch it here:
Hurricane Dorian
I visited The Abaco islands in the Bahamas for the Daily Telegraph . You can see my pictures here
Mise En Place
I volunteer at a non-profit café—Postmark CafĂ© on 6th street— in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The cafe is normally subdued, most people sitting and chat or work in silence or with headphones, music plays on the shops’ sound system. At 11:40am every school day students from the local middle school in Park Slope, Brooklyn flood intoContinue reading “Mise En Place”
‘Cursed’: A Short Story
Jon Tiedermann family’s new home has a sinister history, and only an act of kindness can break the curse.
Happiness with a Long Piece of Black Leader 