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Shadow Beings movie on IMdb.com
Memberships:
Top One Percent Society
Mensa
Universal Life Church (minister)
EMO = Enigmatic, Mystical, Ominous
Just an old fart in a sea of gaseous anamolies.
But seriously...
I had the itch to make movies since my Aunt Carol gave me a wind-up Kodak Brownie back when I was 8. I shot a little bit of 8mm. And that was it until about 32 years later. Why did it take so long? Well, without going into the nuts and bolts of it, life happened.
I'm back biotch!
At one time for many millenia, I thought I'd never ever make movies. Or should I say I didn't think? All that time I was writing or at least taking notes for story concepts. Now that I've re-kindled the flame, I have tons of stories and ideas that really, really need to be made into movies. If I were to make each and every one, since I'm starting a the late age of over forty, and at my present rate of progress, I would have to stay alive for another 80 years at least. Now that's a goal!
Nut Shell
I didn't have any money when I made my first movie. No credit cards (actually I had credit cards, they were maxed). No personality enough to ask people for money to make a movie. Besides, I needed to experiment before using someone else's cash. So, the only option I had was to make a movie for less than $2000. I was told it was impossible. I was told I wouldn't be able to keep the actors. I was told many negatives, but I proved them all wrong.
I became a member at the Community Media Center of Santa Rosa, CA. for only a $40 annual fee; After a bit of purgatory, I realized I needed to get out of my depression and make something unprecedented at the media center... make a feature length movie for public access. So, the movie was made for under $2K using volunteer actors, public access equipment and it shows. Shows that if I had enough money I would've kicked ass!

My Interests

I prefer science fiction, fantasy, psychological, horror and/or comedy movies, however I will probably work on projects of any genre.

movies (duh!)
exploratory hiking
quantum mechanics
mysticism
ancient civilizations
The Celts
Irish and Scottish history
mythology and legends
astronomy
paranormal stuff
world peace
a world wide religion (only as religion is necessary)

I'd like to meet:

1) Myself from the future. With the winning Lotto numbers, of course.
2) The person who invented words.
3) The person who invented the wheel.
4) The person who first used fire without getting burned.
5) Any person who thinks cannabis is bad. Only until I slap some sense into them.
6) The first person who reached nirvana.
7) My soul mate. She is of Irish decent and has dark hair. She has beautiful eyes and a beautiful smile. She is interested in ancient civilizations and the paranormal. She is extremely into movies perhaps even an actress or director. She is very understanding and loyal. Now, where is she?? Some may say I'm a dreamer...

Music:

Mind of Clay
Guthrie Lowe
Tracie Minkoff
Vincent Truman
Tangerine Dream
Mozart
Yes
Klaatu
Kate Bush
Peter Gabriel
Disturbed
Godsmack
Jeff Lynne/ELO
various Celtic music

Movies:

Shadow Beings

movie trailer
movie site
Reviews:
Shadow Beings "Not everyone can make a quality film worthy of parting you from your hard earned money however,... SHADOW BEINGS is thankfully well worth a couple of hours of your time. ...this is intelligent genre cinema ... [Charles] Bryan has achieved some stunning compositions with his textural photography and shadow play montages... This is good strong drama... If this is what Charles Bryan can do with such meagre means on his debut film, I can't wait to see the next one! You should definitely check this film out..." - Lee Bailes, RumourMachine.com
Movie Synopsis:
Shadow Beings The Evil Ones have been trapped in-between the worlds for millennia. They cannot cross the veil that separates our physical world from their realm without help from this side. During a s..ance, lead by En'Kara (Tracie Minkoff), five friends unwittingly open a portal through the veil, which helps the Evil Ones to take possession of humans. Those who are unable to take a host appear as shadow beings, fleeting glimpses unable to manifest physically.
Brien (Evan Johnson) follows a shadow being through the veil to a parallel universe. He ends up finding his chase, Enki (Scott Carrillo), who relates to him the philosophy on true nature of the universe. Brien learns that he has been charged with stopping the Evil Ones from crossing over before the number of their entities reaches critical mass, thus bringing down the veil.
The possessed Aliester (Paul Martinez) tries one last time to help his brethren cross over the veil. Brien thwarts his efforts by changing reality as he becomes one with the veil.
Without the veil, there is no separation of the manifest from the unmanifest; the order of our universe would revert to the chaos before creation.
2005, Color, Appox. 84 Mins. Writer and Director of Shadow Beings
Charles Bryan
Cast of Shadow Beings
Evan Johnson
Katie Reynolds
Tracie Minkoff
Paul Martinez
Scott Carrillo
Heather Haycock
Seamus Seanachaoi
Crew of Shadow Beings
Charles Bryan
Doug Faxon
Kurt Fillmore
Scott Greenwood
Score of Shadow Beings by
Guthrie Lowe

Television:

This is still the movies section, not much into television. These are my favorites:

π (pi) In the Mouth of Madness 12 Monkeys Kung Pow 300 Lady in the Water A Nightmare on Elm Street Lord of the Rings Animatrix Memento Army of Darkness Natural Born Killers A Scanner Darkly Night Watch Big Trouble in Little China Phantasm Braveheart Pitch Black Bruce Almighty Re-Animator Cannibal: The Musical Scanners Cat in the Hat Signs Cigarette Burns South Park episodes Constantine Team America Dark City Terminator Dark Crystal The Blair Thumb Day Watch The Chronicles of Riddick Deadman The Godtumb Dogma The Last Temptation of Christ Donnie Darko The Matrix 1,2,3 Dune The Rutles Equilibrium The Thing (John Carpenter's) Farenheit 9/11 They Live Fight Club Total Recall Grass Underworld Hellraiser Vampires (John Carpenter's) Hick Trek Waking Life Highlander X-Men Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy Terror Planet (Rodriguez) Hoodwinked Murder Party Idiocracy The Man From Earth

Books:

The Isaiah Effect The Matrix and Philosophy Ugly Bungalow Psychic Limbo The Celestine Prophecy The Walrus Was Paul God's Secret Formula Black Holes and Baby Universes The Great and Secret Show Myst: The Book of Atrus The 12th Planet The 21 Lessons of Merlyn Parallel Worlds

My Blog

The Crucible

Should I be chastised at work for what I do at home? Ask yourself the same question. Something you do at home may be offensive or not "politcially correct" in the eyes of others. However, those things...
Posted by Mind's Clay Productions on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:39:00 PST

Happy 4/20

If any of you are so inclined, please join me in a group prayer/meditation for the decriminalization and legalization of cannabis. We can accomplish this by all of us partaking of the cannabis all at ...
Posted by Mind's Clay Productions on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:32:00 PST

Relationship Survey

Question: Would it be more devastating for you to have your "significant other" leave you for another man/woman, or leave you just because they don't want to be with you? Honest answers onl...
Posted by Mind's Clay Productions on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:12:00 PST

Another Pointless Video Part XII

This is one of my experimental films where I would go out on my bicycle with a camcorder. I captured what would be roughly a "one shot scene" or "one shot sequence", with no cuts, and a dream-like atm...
Posted by Mind's Clay Productions on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:44:00 PST

Another Pointless Video Part XI

A "promotional video" for the latest installment of the Halloween Tapes. This is for the 2007 haunt. PROMO - Halloween 2007 .....
Posted by Mind's Clay Productions on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:38:00 PST

Over 35? Read this...

I just wanted to mention that I got carded again today. That makes two times since my 43rd birthday. Who says we have to grow "old"?? ...
Posted by Mind's Clay Productions on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:23:00 PST

He has risen

I know some of you will hate me for this. I speak truth and logic, which often causes pain and anguish. If someone dies and comes back to life, isn’t that pretty much a "zombie"???! Now be hones...
Posted by Mind's Clay Productions on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:01:00 PST

Irish Mourning Day Gift

I don’na celebrate St. Patrick’s Day for the catholicism but against the catholicism. I am in mourning that the Irish were converted. On a lighter note: I just got back from Raley’s...
Posted by Mind's Clay Productions on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:52:00 PST

Zanny Narcissitic Animation

I couldn’t resist.... I had to give it a try. It’s always funny.... I just wish I had thought of this first. Simple and clever. Not too difficult to create. damn.I used three pictures from...
Posted by Mind's Clay Productions on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:05:00 PST

Mere coincidence?

I am in this certian mode of gaining my entertainment via downloads through Amazon Unbox. I have downloaded movies as well as TV series. One such series is "Dead Like Me". It was a Showtime thing. It ...
Posted by Mind's Clay Productions on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:01:00 PST