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Scott Cummings is a filmmaker and on/off musician living and working in Los Angeles. He originally hails from Lockport, New York, a small town next to the criminally underrated metropolis of Buffalo. He went to Catholic school.
He began making films as an undergraduate at SUNY Buffalo and continues as a graduate student at the California Institute of the Arts. Once, he made a film by wrapping 16mm film around his body, wearing it for an entire day, then hand-processing it. The resulting film was unprojectable, and the surprisingly sharp/serrated edge of the film left many unpleasant physical reminders on his body... reminders never to make experimental work again. He now concentrates on narrative and kind-of-narrative work; he blames Tony Conrad for the scars.
He has played bass and guitar in a multitude of go-nowhere hardcore, post-punk and indie bands. He did, however, play many concerts while living in Tokyo with Japanese post-hardcore band Dutch Cat. In 2001, he began making noise music using samplers and keyboards. Upon moving to Tokyo, he made the move to digital production, producing noise, "glitch," IDM and, now, ambient music. Mirroring his career in hardcore, his electronica career has went nowhere, but he doesn't care much.
He speaks three languages, none of them well, but all of them well enough to be understood well enough. These languages are Russian, English and Japanese.
He has a sister, mother and father. They all share his good looks and sharp intellect.
He thinks Los Angeles is too hot and longs to move back to Moscow.
He just managed to fulfill many of his director fantasies in his thesis film "Storm Tiger Mountain." These include:
1. Russians whispering in Russian
2. non-professional actors with dodgy tattoos
3. underage children smoking
4. use of random animals in scenes
5. chickens
6. mannequins mannequins mannequins
7. children in masks
8. random acts of violence against inanimate objects
9. skewed allusion to Brian Eno in a film title
10. a run-in with the Armenian underworld.
"Storm Tiger Mountain" awaits telecine. The film should be fully completed by April.
The picture of him below is with actor Ari Simon on the set of STM.
Scott Cummings is a filmmaker and on/off musician living and working in Los Angeles. He originally hails from Lockport, New York, a small town next to the criminally underrated metropolis of Buffalo. He went to Catholic school.
He began making films as an undergraduate at SUNY Buffalo and continues as a graduate student at the California Institute of the Arts. Once, he made a film by wrapping 16mm film around his body, wearing it for an entire day, then hand-processing it. The resulting film was unprojectable, and the surprisingly sharp/serrated edge of the film left many unpleasant physical reminders on his body... reminders never to make experimental work again. He now concentrates on narrative and kind-of-narrative work; he blames Tony Conrad for the scars.
He has played bass and guitar in a multitude of go-nowhere hardcore, post-punk and indie bands. He did, however, play many concerts while living in Tokyo with Japanese post-hardcore band Dutch Cat. In 2001, he began making noise music using samplers and keyboards. Upon moving to Tokyo, he made the move to digital production, producing noise, "glitch," IDM and, now, ambient music. Mirroring his career in hardcore, his electronica career has went nowhere, but he doesn't care much.
He speaks three languages, none of them well, but all of them well enough to be understood well enough. These languages are Russian, English and Japanese.
He has a sister, mother and father. They all share his good looks and sharp intellect.
He thinks Los Angeles is too hot and longs to move back to Moscow.
He just managed to fulfill many of his director fantasies in his thesis film "Storm Tiger Mountain." These include:
1. Russians whispering in Russian
2. non-professional actors with dodgy tattoos
3. underage children smoking
4. use of random animals in scenes
5. chickens
6. mannequins mannequins mannequins
7. children in masks
8. random acts of violence against inanimate objects
9. skewed allusion to Brian Eno in a film title
10. a run-in with the Armenian underworld.
"Storm Tiger Mountain" awaits telecine. The film should be fully completed by April.
The picture of him below is with actor Ari Simon on the set of STM.
