Michael Langan

Langan's first student film, Snail, premiered at Ann Arbor Film Festival in March 2007.{{cite web |url=http://www.directorsnotes.com/2012/04/04/michael-langan/ |title=Director's Notes: Michael Langan |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=Director's Notes |date=4 April 2012 |quote= }} His undergraduate thesis film, Doxology, has received widespread acclaim, winning fourteen awards at over eighty film festivals worldwide.{{cite web |url=http://langanfilms.com/doxology.html |title=Doxology Screenings and Awards |accessdate=2010-01-17 |work=langanfilms.com |quote= }}

Slamdance Film Festival commissioned Langan to complete a short film in 2008.{{cite web |url=http://spoileralertradio.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=416158 |title=Michael Langan - Doxology and Dahlia |accessdate=2010-01-17 |work=spoileralertradio.linsyn.com |quote= }} The resulting film, Dahlia, which premiered at the festival the following year, has since screened at film festivals around the world and appeared on Showtime.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/arts/television/20watchlist.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=michael%20langan&st=cse& |title=Fishing Online for Cable Viewers |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=The New York Times |date=18 February 2011 |quote= |last1=Hale |first1=Mike }} The film is a three-minute portrait of San Francisco, Langan's home at the time, featuring a musical score composed by the filmmaker.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1381550/ |title=Dahlia on IMDB |accessdate=2010-01-17 |work=Internet Movie Database |date=18 January 2009 |quote= }}

In 2010, Langan collaborated with author Brian Christian on a short film adaptation of Christian's poem, Heliotropes.{{cite web |url=http://langanfilms.com/heliotropes.html |title=Official Website of Heliotropes |accessdate=2010-11-06 |work=Langan Films |quote= }} The film was featured at twenty film festivals in 2011{{cite web |url=http://langanfilms.com/heliotropes.html |title=Official Website of Heliotropes |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=Langan Films |quote= }} and premiered online with The Atlantic on September 1, 2011.{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2011/09/animation-and-poetry-meet-in-heliotropes/244447/ |title=Animation and Poetry Meet in 'Heliotropes' |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=The Atlantic |quote= }} Heliotropes later appeared in the final edition of Wholphin (DVD) in February 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.wholphindvd.com/ |title=Archive Snapshot of wholphindvd.com |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=archive.today |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130209090309/http://www.wholphindvd.com/ |archivedate=2013-02-09 |url-status=bot: unknown }}

Langan collaborated with Harvard lecturer Terah Maher{{cite web|url=http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/maher.html |title=Harvard VES: Terah Maher Bio |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=ves.fas.harvard.edu/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525013709/http://ves.fas.harvard.edu/maher.html |archivedate=2013-05-25 |url-status=dead }} on the 2011 dance film, Choros, building on the chronophotography work of Eadweard Muybridge, Etienne Jules Marey, and Norman McLaren.{{cite web |url=http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2013/02/05/choros/ |title=Short of the Week: Choros |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=shortoftheweek.com/ |quote= }} The film is scored with the 1976 composition Music for 18 Musicians by minimalist composer Steve Reich.{{cite web |url=http://www.vanguardseattle.com/2014/02/05/time-transfixed-choros-michael-langan-terah-maher/ |title=Time Transfixed in "Choros" by Michael Langan and Terah Maher |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=vanguardseattle.com/ |date=5 February 2014 |quote= }}

Langan returned to pixilation with his 2013 short film, Butler, Woman, Man (L'homme, la femme et le majordome), a French co-production of Paprika Films and Arte. The film premiered on French and German television broadcast in March, 2013.{{cite web |url=http://videos.arte.tv/en/videos/l-homme-la-femme-et-le-majordome-de-michael-langan--7392146.html |title="L'homme, la femme, et la majordome" de Michael Langan |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=videos.arte.tv/ |quote= }}

In March 2014, Skrillex's Owsla record label released Hundred Waters - Cavity, a music video for the single by indie band Hundred Waters, directed by Michael Langan. The music video was premiered by NPR's Jacob Ganz, and subsequently covered by Pitchfork Media and The Huffington Post.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2014/03/03/285331412/hundred-waters-shines-a-strange-light-in-darkness |title=Hundred Waters Shines a Strange Light in Darkness |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=NPR |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304161240/http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2014/03/03/285331412/hundred-waters-shines-a-strange-light-in-darkness|archivedate=2014-03-04|url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/hundred-waters-cavity_n_4912648.html |title=This Is How You Make A Hallucinatory Music Video With Only A Flashlight |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=The Huffington Post |date=7 March 2014 |quote= }}{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/news/54212-video-hundred-waters-cavity/ |title=Video: Hundred Waters: Cavity |accessdate=2014-05-08 |work=Pitchfork Media |date=4 March 2014 |quote= }}

• Butler, Woman, Man (2013)
• Choros (2011)
• Heliotropes (2010)
• Dahlia (2008)
• Doxology (2007)
• Snail (2005)

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• [http://langanfilms.com Michael Langan's Official Website]
• {{IMDb name|id=3091467|name=Michael Langan}}
• [https://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2011/09/animation-and-poetry-meet-in-heliotropes/244447/ Interview with The Atlantic, 2011]
• [https://variety.com/2010/digital/news/tomorrow-s-toon-talent-1118020165/ Variety: Tomorrow's Toon Talent: 10 Animators Poised to Become Household Names]
• [http://motionographer.com/index.php?s=michael+langan Motionographer Articles on Michael Langan]
• [https://speakers.academyart.edu/content/guest-speakers/web-design---new-media/michael-langan.html Academy of Art University Lecture (Video)]
• [http://spoileralertradio.libsyn.com/michael_langan_doxology_and_dahlia Spoiler Alert Radio Interview, 2008]
• [http://langanfilms.com/doxology.html Critical Praise for Doxology]
• [http://langanfilms.com/snail.html Snail (Video)]
• [http://langanfilms.com/doxology.html Doxology (Video)]
• [http://langanfilms.com/dahlia.html Dahlia (Video)]
• [http://langanfilms.com/heliotropes.html Heliotropes (Video)]
• [http://langanfilms.com/choros.html Choros (Video)]
• [http://langanfilms.com/cavity.html Hundred Waters - Cavity (Official Video)]

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