Nate Taylor is an American
filmmaker based in
New York City. Taylor is son of documentary director Eric Taylor and contemporary artist Sali Taylor.
Career
Nathan Bauman Taylor began his professional film career as a production assistant at the age of sixteen. Over the next six years he worked a variety of roles on-set, ranging from extra to dolly grip, until he ended up landing a job at the NYC-based commercial
post-production
Post-production is part of the process of filmmaking, video production, audio production, and photography. Post-production includes all stages of production occurring after principal photography or recording individual program segments.
The ...
house
Crew Cuts. He remained at Crew Cuts for 12 years, where he edited numerous national
television commercials for the likes of
Pepsi,
Verizon,
GE and
Saturday Night Live. In addition to a large body of commercial work, Taylor has edited a number of long form pieces, including music videos, short films, and worked on the independent feature, ''
Kissing Jessica Stein'' (directed by
Charlie Herman-Wurmfeld).
Showcasing the film-making talents he refined while working in post-production, Taylor started directing short works in 2003, including viral web videos, spec commercials, indie music videos, and a short film. In 2008 he directed a
machinima
Machinima, originally machinema () is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation. The word "machinima" is a portmanteau of the words ''ma ...
parody entitled ''MMOvie''. Created using the
World of Warcraft game engine the short was a massive online success, garnering over 3 million hits internationally and receiving nominations for a 2008 Webby Award and a Golden Trailer Award. The project also got the notice of Austria filmmaker Daniel Moshel, who featured Taylor and his team in a documentary about the virtual world titled ''Login 2 Life''.
In 2012 Taylor completed his first full-length feature film, ''
Forgetting the Girl'', an adaptation of a short story of the same title written by
Peter Moore Smith
Peter Moore Smith (born 1965) is an American writer and was the recipient of the 2000 Pushcart Prize for his short story " Oblivion, Nebraska." He has written two novels, ''Raveling'' and ''Los Angeles'', both published by Little, Brown.
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. On March 2, it had its world premiere at the 2012
Cinequest
The Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival is an annual independent film festival held each March in San Jose, California and Redwood City, California. The international festival combines the cinematic arts with Silicon Valley’s innovation. It is ...
film festival. Critics praised Taylor for showing "great skill and confidence in the direction" and delivering a film which was "twisted and brilliant" and "disturbingly beautiful". The film will be distributed in North America by Film Movement in October 2013.
Video art
Taylor is also a
VJ performing under the name Full Stealth. As VJ Full Stealth he performs live, improvisational video art with bands and DJs. His largest show was a nine-hour set in the House Tent at the 2007
ltra Music Festivalref> in Miami, Florida.
References
External links
Official Nate Taylor HomepageOfficial ''Forgetting the Girl'' Website*
Nate Taylor's Flickr PhotostreamNate Taylor at Kyle Edit
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American film directors
1976 births
Living people