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Danny Madden: Little bit from my life, little bit from observing other people's lives.Are you trying to make some big commentary on our modern, hyper-commercialized world about how basically everything we experience is just a facet of something before us and there's no originality in stories today?
Ha, "big commentary." I'd say I have a lot of questions about what all this media in our faces means. Does how we're ingesting it devalue the content? How our dwindling attention spans [are] shaping how new art is made? What does it mean when we're more interested in what's on the device than what's actually in front of us?
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Not forever. We began the process in October 2014 and finished in February 2015. Myself and a few friends spent a lot of time together researching and animating and cutting and painting. If it wasn't fun, it would've taken a lot longer.Are the film scenes selected actually all of your favorite shows?
Almost all of them are in there.What are you working on now?
My first music video. Playing with creating from someone else's art and having fun with it.Thanks, Danny. I'm going to close my eyes now.Jeffrey Bowers is a tall mustached guy from Ohio who's seen too many weird movies. He currently lives in Brooklyn, working as the senior curator for Vimeo's On Demand platform. He has also programmed at Tribeca Film Festival, Rooftop Films, and the Hamptons International Film Festival. Follow him on Twitter.