- Allen Cordell
Allen Cordell (born February 16, 1978 in
Seoul, Korea ) is a filmmaker and artist living in Manhattan. He attended high school in upstate New York and wanted to become a comic book illustrator before deciding to pursue film and fine art. Cordell attendedPurchase College in Purchase, New York, to study cinema in the school's competitive filmmaking conservatory.Developing a love for documentary, experimental and narrative cinema, Cordell's student films often blurred the distinctions between these genres and reflected his obsession with what he calls "the perpetual sense of mystery that permeates every experience".Fact|date=February 2007
He won an award for best documentary his sophomore year for his portrait of John D. Phillips, an outsider artist suffering from
schizophrenia .Cordell directed the music video for
Dan Deacon 's 2006 "Big Big Big Big Big" and is currently producing his first feature film, "Some Kind of Awful", which he wrote and directed.External links
* [http://www.allencordell.com Allen Cordell's official site - www.allencordell.com]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1472305/ Allen Cordell on IMDb]
* [http://www.myspace.com/allencordell Allen Cordell on MySpace]
* [http://www.allencordell.com/DanDeaconVideo.mov Music Video for "Dan Deacon: Big Big Big Big Big" directed by Allen Cordell]
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