Directors
Bent Image Lab co-founder and director David Daniels invented an animation technique he termed Strata-cut, a form of clay animation in which internally packed "loaves" of clay are animated in thin slices, revealing the movement of the pre-sculpted images within. The technique of strata-cut was used in animated segments of the Pee Wee's Playhouse series during the mid-90s, and in the music video for Big Time by Peter Gabriel (1986).
Bent co-founder and director Chel White is an independent film director. Since 1999, three of his short films have screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival ("Dirt," "Choreography for Copy Machine," and "Passage"). Other festival screenings include the Berlin Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, SXSW Festival, Ottawa Animation Festival, Annecy Animation Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, and Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Chel White's film "Wind" was commissioned by the climate change awareness group, Live Earth. Narrated by Alec Baldwin, the film uses a poem by Spanish poet Antonio Machado a metaphor for contemporary society's lack of planet stewardship. The English translation of the poem was by Robert Bly. The film features a solo piano rendition of Tschaikovsky's "Morning Prayer" performed by Pink Martini's Thomas Lauderdale, as well as time-lapse photography by Mark Eifert. Along with eight other Live Earth commissioned films, "Wind" made its world premiere in the opening night program of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival with keynote speaker Al Gore.
Bent Image Lab co-founder and executive producer Ray Di Carlo got his start in the film industry working on special effects in feature films. His first project was The Abyss (1989), where he came on as Lead Man for Donald Pennington. More recently Di Carlo produced visual effects for "I'm Not There"," "Paranoid Park" (2007), and (2008) "Milk". He has been Executive Producer for Bent Image Lab since its inception. He has also co-directed several of the company's commercial productions.
Bent director Jun Seo Hahm's work is showcased in a series of odd and original micro shorts called "Karnival,"
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