Projection Design and Video Production

The Songs of a Lost Child - Animated Short

An animation built around poems and drawings by Chika Shimizu, with music by The Books.

Animated by Solomon Weisbard

About the book:: Writer and illustrator Chika Shimizu’s book of drawings and poetry in both Japanese and English walks the thin line between the world of children and adults. Encapsulating friendship, happiness, longing, loneliness and love in ways that readers of all ages and both languages can understand. Shimizu’s sense of whimsy and the deceptive simplicity of her restrained black and white illustrations both disguise and reinforce a greater purpose- culling the depths of the human heart. The book can be purchased here

A Year Moving Through — Dance Film

A video production project with Willamette University Theatre

Choreographer: Faith Morrison
Director of Photography and Editor: Solomon Weisbard
Co-DP and Editor: Sydney Davis Denney
Costumes: Bobby Brewer-Wallin

Bloom - Dance Film

A video production project with Willamette University Theatre

Choreographer: Faith Morrison
Director of Photography and Editor: Solomon Weisbard
Costumes: Bobby Brewer-Wallin

This
Yale Cabaret
A new play by Mary Laws
Directed by Margot Bordelon
Set design by Reid Thompson
Lighting by Oliver Wason
Projection design by Solomon Weisbard

“This.” is not traditional storytelling, but it still has the powerful quality of narrative to transcend the divide between fact and fiction to capture something more extraordinary and more truthful. “This.” is the kind of show that makes you look at the stranger sitting next to you a little differently. We see how life is funny and sad at the same time. “This.” is the reason we seek connections to people around us. “This.” reminds us that we are not alone. - Joy Shan, Yale Daily News

Projection design for a sequence in the play adapted from the Mikhail Bulgakov short story. Sound design by Matt Otto Narrator: Ilya Khadosh Premiered at the Yale Cabaret - Fall 2012 Directed and adapted by Dustin Wills Set by Kate Knoll Lighting by Meredith Ries Sound by Matt Otto Projections by Solomon Weisbard
A projection project based on the Phillip Glass opera. This footage was mapped onto a dark stairwell, using and responding to architecture. The music is my own adaptation.

Music Video featuring class of 2013 Yale School of Drama designers

A study of materials inspired by Midsummer Night's Dream and the music of Tom Waits.