“As a feature film First Assistant Editor, I work and collaborate directly with the Editor and Director to bring the film to life. The day to day is creative but also very technical. I manage the cutting room, handle VFX and oversee temp music and sound design...”
Sean Nolan and the Heartmakers - Heartbeat
“I realize it’s sort of ironic I’m uncomfortable in front of a camera. I’ve got to admit though, shooting the video for “Heartbeat” was a rush. It isn’t often I’m able to catch a glimpse of what it must feel like to do this for a living. We shot at a rehearsal space we’ve used for years called The Sweatshop in Brooklyn, New York.
This place is wild. On any given night hopeful bands fill the rooms down dirty halls stretching beneath flickering fluorescent lights, playing their songs loud enough to fill the street outside the old building with a cacophony of sound. Our drummer, Kenny works in film, so he took the helm and directed. He also came up with the concept.
It’s crazy just how hard it can be keeping a band together once you and your friends somehow end up in your thirties. It’s crazy ending up in your thirties. But when it clicks, it clicks. Friends and friends of friends came to act as extras. Kenny’s friend Thomas shot it and colored it.
Getting to see all these people pretend to play along with the song was a trip. The lighting added an element that sealed the deal. For a few hours I was in a rock and roll band shooting a music video. I’d do it again in a heartbeat.”
— Punkanormal Activity, Sean Nolan Heartbeat Interview, April 17, 2020
Shlomo Franklin - About Last Night
“A few days ago, he dropped the music video for “About Last Night,” a bittersweet (emphasis on bitter) trajectory mimicking the track’s narrative. Director Kenny Duclos offers pretty cinematography and expertly framed shots of a relationship in limbo: Shlomo sings and strums, resignedly, as a young woman packs her bags and skips town. It’s the lack of communication that does them in; he saying more with music than with words, she waiting for him to spill over like a dictionary. It’s a sad, simple story sweetened by Erin Nelligan’s performance, Shlomo’s sonic talent, and Duclos’ directing.”
— https://www.themusicmermaid.com/home/soul-stripping-shlomo-franklin-interview-dont-love-anybody