Christopher Burke

Películas

Code Ruth
Music
A true love story about a Morse code instructor finding her path during WWII, Code Ruth blends stop-motion techniques with archival materials to share a family’s history of connecting through technology.
Aquacade
Music
An experimental short film that journeys through hidden histories in underwater New York City, beginning with the prohibition of pinball machines and their demise in the East River in 1942. The film collages multiple techniques in animation, blending stop motion, 2D, and 3D with archival footage.
Reformat the Planet
Himself
'Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet' is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as ChipTunes, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using old video game hardware. Familiar devices such as the Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo Entertainment System are pushed in new directions with startling results. Using New York as a microcosm for a larger global movement, 'Reformat the Planet' maps out the genesis of the first annual Blip Festival, a four day celebration of over 30 international artists exploring the untapped potential of low-bit video game consoles. With floor-stomping rhythms and fist-waving melodies, trailblazers of the ChipTune idiom descend upon Manhattan to pen a new chapter in the history of electronic music.
Blip Festival 2006: The Videos
Himself (as glomag)
Live performance video compilation featuring one track from each of the 32 performers at the first annual Blip Festival, held in New York NY in 2006, and curated and organized by 8bitpeoples and The Tank. Companion to the acclaimed documentary film Blip Festival: Reformat The Planet (which premiered at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival), this compilation offers a front-row cross section of the explosive four-day event that showcased the untapped potential of low-bit home computer and game consoles used as creative audio and video tools.
The Refrigerator
Music
Una joven pareja se muda a un apartamento de un barrio conflictivo de Nueva York. Lo único que les gusta del lugar es un frigorífico, que resulta ser la puerta del infierno. Al poco tiempo, consigue hacerse con el control del marido.
Blue Vengeance
Music
A delusional and murderous psychopath escapes from prison and tracks down the members of his favorite, now-defunct metal band to punish them for selling out. Meanwhile, the cop who originally put him away defies a disbelieving police force and teams up with a pretty punk photographer to take him out.
Splatter University
Original Music Composer
A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer.
El vengador tóxico
Additional Music
Melvin, el limpiador de un gimnasio de la pequeña localidad de Tromaville, cae en una cuba radioactiva cuando huye de una pandilla de jóvenes. Las radiaciones le convertirán en un monstruoso mutante con superpoderes, los cuales usará para liberar del mal a la ciudad.