Personnel

Producer, Director, Editor - Benjamin KaplanProducer - Nicole HudsonDirector of Photography - Scott SmithCameras - Mike Speckhard, Ian Wasserman, Sean FuncikLocation Audio - David KerinsColor - Brad FannArtist - Brian Owens (featuring Thomas Owens)Label - ADA Cole Music

108 million YouTube views and counting….

Completed in 2013

Created for the Arts and Education Council of St. Louis, this short film celebrates the breadth and diversity of creativity occurring in this city of Makers.

Completed in 2015

Sun Singleton at Ebony.com summed up this project pretty well...

"Brian Owens’s latest video is a seamless, backdrop-shifting visual for his sultry bed-burner “Till Mornin’ Breaks,” which features his radiantly four-months-pregnant wife, Amanda. It’s an unusual casting choice for any R&B romeo’s video, but one that made sense for Owens because “every love song [I sing] is about my wife. She speaks good into my life. That’s the kind of woman she is.” Now ain’t grown-n-sexy love grand?"

Completed in 2013

This is a never-released music video for St. Louis band, Magnolia Summer. It shows this band of 40-somethings, who has toured the U.S. and Europe for years, was featured on the BBC, headlined LouFest and SXSW, and won countless awards, singing to their past in a dank basement party.

When people screen the video they often ask, "what plugin did you use to get that VHS vibe. Well, no plugin at all. Shot in HD, the film was transferred to VHS multiple times, wrinkled by hand, and re-transferred. 

Personnel
Director, Editor, Additional Camera - Benjamin Kaplan
Producer - Karen Mandelbaum
Director of Photography - Scott Smith

Completed in 2014.