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New Website

Mike Piscitelli — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:23:04 +0000

There is a work new site coming very soon… www.mikepiscitelli.com

STILL IN LOVE

Mike Piscitelli — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:47:38 +0000

For almost 18 months I’ve been working on my first feature length documentary about Ozzy Osbourne. We are still far from finished but we have put up a little teaser to let people know its in the works… I’m really excited about this project and can’t wait till I can share more of the film… Its a side of Ozzy that not many people have ever seen.

TWO YEARS LATE

Mike Piscitelli — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:53:25 +0000

After two years of procrastination my work site is back online. http://www.mikepiscitelli.com/

I GAVE YOU

Mike Piscitelli — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:38:02 +0000

I met Will Oldham while he was in LA a few years ago. Will is pretty much my favorite musician so it took a lot for me to not completely fan out and cry to the dude about how much I loved him. Somehow I made it through the encounter without embarrassing myself and was able to bring up that I would love to do a video for him… Almost a year later I got a call letting me know that he had finished a new record with Matt Sweeney called Superwolf and that they needed a video. He even let me pick which song off the record I had the best idea for.

THEY WILL KILL US ALL

Mike Piscitelli — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:22:13 +0000

We shot this video in and around Hollywood in a single day. The band didn’t want to be in the video so I cast an unsigned rapper named BLACK MAGIC. We worked on his performance for a few days before the shoot since we were stealing all the locations and would only have one or two takes at each spot. He did such a great job with his performance that most of the crew actually thought it was his song. My hopes for this video were that if someone was channel surfing on mute they might think it was a 90′s rap video. The Bronx had just been signed to Island records when we made this video and when I delivered it they were not happy…

THE PAST RECEDES

Mike Piscitelli — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:49:18 +0000

I used to make music videos before I started focusing on long form projects. Looking around the internet for some of my old videos today, I found that a lot of them are either really hard to find or only shitty youtube videos. In the months to come, I will upload all my videos onto vimeo where they can be seen at a much nicer resolution than youtube.

I shot this video at John’s house in a single day. He was not psyched on a film crew wandering freely around his house. John insisted that anytime something had to be moved, I must be there to supervise. After the shoot, though completely unrelated to my crew, something caught fire in his kitchen. John took the fire as a sign and swore to never be photographed in his home again. When I sent him a rough cut, he told me that it was his favorite video that he had ever been a part of… So we’re still cool.