Contact
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551.804.9936
bil@bilthompson.com
Screenings and Festivals
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2011
Mana Contemporary Art Center, NJBig Screen Plaza NYC
2010
Video Art & Experimental Film Festival NYCTeatopia, Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery UK
Animation Block Party NYC
Tops In Ten: Kresge Gallery NJ
17th Casablanca Festival D'art Video, Morocco
2009
Venice Biennale: Arsenale Novissimo, Venice, Italy2008
Today Art Museum, Beijing ChinaArtissima All Over: Turin, Italy
Coney Island Film Festival
2007
14th Casablanca Festival D'art Video, MoroccoThe One Minutes
Staten Island Film Festival
2006
15 Minutes: AVA show, MahwahKunstpunkt Berlin
Royal Academy of Arts, London
MuseumMan: Nevada
MuseumMan: Las Vegas
MuseumMan: Stratosphere Berlin
Liverpool Biennale 2006
London Biennale 2006
NJ State Film Festival
Xalapa Animation Film Festival
Projects
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ELLE Fashion Next
Director / Cinematographer / Editor
web series commisioned by ELLE Magazine and Maybelline. Screened at Lincoln Center during Fashion Week SS 2012 and streamed live on ELLE.com and maybelline.com
Experience
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Clients include: ELLE, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Esquire, Seventeen, Glamour, Interview, Disney, LEGO, AMC, National Geographic, Bloomberg News, NY1, Maybelline, Gap, Express, Victoria Secret
Edit live daily news program. Cut teases, on-air promos, graphics, etc. Oversee freelance and staff video journalists and provide technical direction and editorial feedback. Produce, shoot and edit packages as needed for breaking news.
Highlight Editor for NFL.com during the 2009 season. Cut short and long highlight reels during regular season games for upload to web and mobile platforms. Managed multiple deliverables live during game and cut press conferences post game.
Produced and edited original video content for elle.com, ellegirl.com, and pointclickhome.com for internet, television and mobile broadcast.
Worked with Moroccan university students to produce one minute videos screened at the Internation Festival of Video Art in Casablanca. Instructed students in basic video editing and stop-motion animation.
Worked with internationaly known artist Willoughby Sharp and the D.A.A.D. to install the gallery show "Who is Willoughby Sharp?". Collaborated and conceived of new works created in the gallery for sale to the art community of Berlin. Produced, shot and edited the video installation "The Typesetter".
© 2011 bil thompson
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ELLE Fashion Next
Director / Cinematographer / Editor
web series commisioned by ELLE Magazine and Maybelline. Screened at Lincoln Center during Fashion Week SS 2012 and streamed live on ELLE.com and maybelline.com
Experience
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06.08 to Now
Freelance Director / Cinematographer / Animator / EditorClients include: ELLE, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Esquire, Seventeen, Glamour, Interview, Disney, LEGO, AMC, National Geographic, Bloomberg News, NY1, Maybelline, Gap, Express, Victoria Secret
07.09 to 02.11
NET TV: Post-Production EditorEdit live daily news program. Cut teases, on-air promos, graphics, etc. Oversee freelance and staff video journalists and provide technical direction and editorial feedback. Produce, shoot and edit packages as needed for breaking news.
2009
NFL Films: Highlight EditorHighlight Editor for NFL.com during the 2009 season. Cut short and long highlight reels during regular season games for upload to web and mobile platforms. Managed multiple deliverables live during game and cut press conferences post game.
01.08 to 08.08
Hachette Filipacchi Media: Producer / EditorProduced and edited original video content for elle.com, ellegirl.com, and pointclickhome.com for internet, television and mobile broadcast.
03.07 and 03.10
The One Minutes Foundation: University Hassan II Casablanca, MoroccoWorked with Moroccan university students to produce one minute videos screened at the Internation Festival of Video Art in Casablanca. Instructed students in basic video editing and stop-motion animation.
05.06
Kunstpunk Berlin: Who is Willoughby Sharp? Berlin, GermanyWorked with internationaly known artist Willoughby Sharp and the D.A.A.D. to install the gallery show "Who is Willoughby Sharp?". Collaborated and conceived of new works created in the gallery for sale to the art community of Berlin. Produced, shot and edited the video installation "The Typesetter".
© 2011 bil thompson