BOND VOYAGE FILMS

In 2004, shooting and editing short experimental narrative films became a passion.
Seven short quirky films later and the tape keeps rolling.

(1)
LIGHTS OUT

(2)
TURN A LEFT, AND DOWN THE HALL...

(3)
MYSTERIO WALKS

(4)
NAD & STACEY

(5)
IN OUTSIDE

(6)
"Park it for me, Sweetheart..."

(7)
MISERABLE WOMAN IN ROOM
Version One and Version Two

(8)
THE COLOR OF WATER
(THE COLOR OF WATER is a co-op film project in the making for 2011,
with twin bro Ben Miller, creating the soundtrack)

Volume One
SUNKEN GARDENS, CLIFFS OF MADNESS, THE TRANSCENDING WORD,
DUMBSTOUNDED, Br. Wd., THE MARINER, and MEDLEY

Volume Two
SKY IVY, UNDERWATER, OPTILLUSION, SELF PORTRAIT? (Inc.),
BLUE FLASH, FLICKING, and ATOMIC AURORA AURA


 

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LIGHTS OUT
Filmed Spring 2004 thru Summer 2005
TRT  12:00

A film about one man's slow decent into his private hell, after leaving a local club,
ending in a depressive psychosis with symbolic suicide.  Shot both in NYC and Ann Arbor.
Millers first film, LIGHTS OUT won 1st place at 2005 Philo T. Farnsworth Festival, and screened at 2005 KIFF Kansas International Film Festival, 2005 Muskegon Film Festival,
2005 Brighton International Film Festival, Ann Arbor's Michigan Theatre 2006
Cinema Slam, and 2006 West Chester Film Festival. 

(Music by M3)

 
FRONT COVER

  |
BACK COVER

 

 


PART ONE OF TWO


PART TWO OF TWO



 

Pure isolation can only be found
in the presense of a crowd.
He begins to hear voices.

 Later, we see our hero here,
walking towards "the light"...

 

 

Laurence with brother Roger at KIFF, Oct 2005, the night LIGHTS OUT
was screened and Roger's band, ALLOY ORCHESTRA, performed.



_________________________________________________________________________TURN A LEFT, AND DOWN THE HALL...
Filmed November 2005
TRT 5:00

A playful, existential film.



HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, now distracted from a skipping romp thru the woods,
suddenly comes face to face with his doppleganger...
 

 


His doppleganger, then thumbing the way for HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, only moments
before he croons the title theme song, TURN A LEFT, AND DOWN THE HALL.

 


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MYSTERIO WALKS
Filmed Dec 2005 thru April 2006, and again, Nov 2006 thru Mar 2007
TRT 22:00

A film about one man's psychotic rise & fall, painting the town on Christmas Eve.
22 minutes later, having sunk into utter dispair, he walks home alone. Laurence has
been told by several folks that this film depicts someone on an LSD trip.  It's also
been suggested that it is his worst film.  Who would have thunk?

(Music by LARYNX ZILLION'S NOVELTY SHOP and VELVETEEN BLUE)


PART ONE OF THREE


PART TWO OF THREE


PART THREE OF THREE

 

FRONT COVER

 

BACK COVER

 

Spouting Shakespear on the street corner.


 The ranting continues...


His city environment shifts as transformation takes place.  Sidewalk and pavement splits,
making way for creepy wet leaves, snaking roots, wild music, and other such distortions.


NOTE: MYSTERIO WALKS was an ambitious film project based on a poem Miller wrote 10 years prior. Sadly, it took three "major edits" to get this thing in viewable condition.  Though
still one of his personal faves, MYSTERIO WALKS never received fave
reviews by friends or family, much less festival attention....



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NAD & STACEY
Fall 2007 thru Jan 2008
TRT 14:32

A comedy, if not convoluted and surreal, playfully expressing the struggle twins have in
discovering their own identity, separate from the other.  NAD & STACEY is inspired
by a loosely scripted comic strip, rendered during Miller's college daze.
Laurence claims it's all about "sound design" on this one.

(Music by TWICE REMOVED)


PART ONE OF TWO

 

PART TWO OF TWO


 

FRONT COVER

 

BACK COVER


NAD, inside the old farm house in search of his lost doppleganger, hearing voices...
(are they his?)



Original comic strip artwork which the film was loosly based on:


 NAD getting drunk, thinking hard.

 NAD, conversing, beginning to take on the appearance of STACEY.

 STACEY figuring it out on his own.

 THE CLOUD MAP...



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IN OUTSIDE
Filmed fall 2007
TRT 5 min.

A friend challenged Miller to produce a 5 minute psychological thriller, given four hours
to shoot and one week to edit. So, he came up with this piece called IN OUTSIDE.
A film about one man's struggle to connect that which is outside himself, to
that which is inside.  Good Luck.  IN OUTSIDE was screened in March 2009
at the BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL and took First Place at
PHILO T. FARNSWORTH MEDIA FESTIVAL 2011 for best short film.

(Music by LARYNX ZILLION'S NOVELTY SHOP)


FRONT COVER

 BACK COVER

 

Tension builds between perspectives as he beings to worry of his struggles, inside...

 

Of course.  The outer "gateway" between both worlds.



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"PARK IT FOR ME, SWEETHEART..."
Filmed fall 2007, then extended in spring 2008
TRT 8:50

The same friend challenged Miller to produce a 5 minute Film Noir, given 6 hours to
shoot and one week to edit.  So I did.  Then Laurence spent another few weeks, shooting and editing more, creating this extended and superior version. This film is his first with
real time dialogue, as opposed to voiceovers. He credits the actress in helping
him create the script, his first film ever which approaches "normal".

Music by VELVETEEN BLUE

          BARCAROLLE as sung by Yvette, lead actress for the film.  


 


"...why don't you let me put my face on straight?..."


 Yvette begins to bitch about her having
to bring home the bacon, via
the oldest profession.






 Johnny shows no concern, of course, and begins to reminisce of other things.


Yvette continues to complain about
Johnny's ongoing affairs --
"...she can't even carry a tray!..."




-- while Johnny continues



-- with yet another flashback.

 
Eventually, Johnny and Yvette "make up".
(But, what's that in Yvette's purse...?)



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MISERABLE WOMAN IN ROOM

 “I wrote this in my head in 1994, while cutting Mrs. Ramfjord’s lawn,
and from there it grew & died a million times”
(Plans are to shoot the original full length 14 min. version in 16mm, summer 2010.)


DEMO SKETCH Version #1

Demo #1 filmed on VHS-C in the fall of 1998
at William Patrick's Art Gallery in Yipsilanti, Michigan
Edited January 2010 at A2CTN

Jennifer (last name?) as the MISERABLE WOMAN
William Patrick  as the DEAD MAN'S GHOST
“Bing’s Haunting”
Background music created by Yours Truly of VELVETEEN BLUE
© 2010 / Bond Voyage Films





DEMO SKETCH Version #2

Demo filmed on 16mm B&W December 1999,
at The Neutral Zone in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Edited January 2010 at A2CTN

Melinda Diana as the MISERABLE WOMAN
“Bing’s Haunting”
Background music created by Yours Truly of VELVETEEN BLUE
© 2010 / Bond Voyage Films

 

 

 

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