Client: Benjamin Moore
'Outside the Box' campaign
Dir. Sean Clark, 2011
1 min.
Client: New York Daily News
Every year, Real Dads Network hosts a Daddy Daughter Dance in Harlem. This year’s event, on June 11, was the ninth annual. William Henry and his daughter, Avangelia, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, have attended since the beginning. It’s an opportunity for fathers and daughters to bond on their own and with others. “There are dads and daughters who have the same experiences as us, and we talk about life,” says Avangelia, who will begin high school in the fall. “It's just having fun.”
Dir. Sean Clark, 2016
3 min.
Client: New York Daily News
Every year on September 11, the Tribute in Light commemorates the victims of the terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 2001. One unanticipated consequence of the memorial — which consists of 88 7,000-watt bulbs that form two beams of light, visible from miles away — is the adverse effect they have on migrating birds that pass over Lower Manhattan at this time. To protect the migrating flocks, NYC Audubon trains volunteers to monitor the birds from the base of the display. They make periodic tallies; when the total exceeds 1,000, the lights are turned off until the birds safely pass through.
Dir. Sean Clark, 2016
6 min.
Client: New York Daily News
Giant rats towering over construction sites, a not-so-subtle metaphor that the developer is using non-union workers. Built to shame, "Scabby the Rat" sticks out like a sore thumb in the Construction Laborers Union's inflatable toolkit.
Full video can be seen here.
Dir. Sean Clark, 2016
6 min.
Client: New York Daily News
Mambo and stickball: Today they are relics of a golden age in New York history. But in the 1950s they were the twin passions of the Puerto Rican communities in the Bronx and Spanish Harlem. At 81, Bronx native Orlando Marin remains intimately entwined with both. One need only visit the Museum of the City of New York to find Marin commemorated in the Stickball Hall of Fame. And it’s just as easy to find him with his orchestra performing Afro-Cuban dance music to enthusiastic crowds all over town. Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez and Machito are said to be the “big three” mambo masters, but Marin, who is marking his 65th year as a bandleader, is quick to note that “if they had a fourth, it would’ve been me.” Most of mambo’s legendary figures have passed on, but the self-proclaimed Last Mambo King is still going strong. “Today,” Marin says, “I am the last one left.”
Dir. Sean Clark, 2016
4 min.