The Horologist
A man obsessed with time builds a house that's a giant clock.
Sep 17, 2017•3 min
PHONOGRAPHY: Writing In Sound
Think This American Life. Think Radio Lab. Phonography is a collection of stories that tries to blur the lines between literature and news, memoir and music.
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IMMUNE!
Finally you can watch the entirety of "IMMUNE!" now released in all 4 parts (plus a prologue) at: www.immunethefilm.com Part fiction, part narrative, part superhero origin story (kinda), part personal narrative, part graphic novel, the film takes a deep look at the reasons we all might want to believe in superheroes, and the dangerous places we end up as we get lost in the world of fantasy. "a unique take on film as self portrait"Official Selection of the Chicago Underground Film Festival....
Dec 10, 2015•5 min
BeepBall
Blind people playing baseball? Yeah. That's right. All you need is a ball that beeps. (photo credit: "baseball" by theseanster93 via flickr creative commons)
Oct 30, 2012•8 min
Go Do by Jonsi
As a small change of pace from the rest of the podcast, here's a short music video I put together made entirely out of letters. The video was created for a two-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of a live show I was doing alongside comedian and performance artist Ryan Good. Initially the video was meant to serve as a background element to a movement piece, but we ended up liking the video so much that we all but abandoned all on-stage movement during the projection. The song in th...
Sep 02, 2011•3 min
Door Belle
The alternate title for this was going to be the Isaac Hayes-esque "Girl, I Wanna Get You In My Belly Button T-Shirt Hole" but the mp3 title field wouldn't fit it. But now that you know that, I mean, c'mon, aren't you curious....?
Aug 25, 2011•5 min
Beneath the Surface (ENHANCED)
Because this is a much longer piece than I normally produce, and because in writing it, it naturally broke down into seven distinct parts, I wanted to give the listener the option of listening to the piece as a whole or to each section individually. So I created an enhanced podcast, which allows you to interact with it the same way you do a CD. You can jump forward to the next track or back to one you want to hear again. Also each track has it’s own chapter title and individual artwork. The only...
Apr 02, 2009•38 min
Beneath the Surface
This project started because I was interested in the hundreds of towns around America that have been evacuated and then purposely flooded in order to make reservoirs. In many cases, the streets, the buildings, still exist underwater. When droughts happen, these town resurface and the people who lived in these towns often come back to see what’s left of their old homes. To me, this was a very powerful image. I saw it as such a perfect example of the idea that “you can never go home again.” As I s...
Mar 31, 2009•38 min
A Lesson in Social Confusion: Or How I Essentially Became a Street Kabuki Performer Entirely By Accident
I mean, seriously... The piece is 3 1/2 minutes. With a title like that, do I really have to write a description to convince you to listen to it? (Non-fiction?)
Jan 31, 2009•4 min
Stories of Lost and Found #4: Through the Window and Across the Street
Ryan Scammell finds some pages from a young girls' diary (?) in the closet in his apartment building. He reads us something she had written about the deaf man who lived across the street from her and what happened when she finally tried to talk to him. (Fiction)
Jan 05, 2009•6 min
Stories of Lost and Found #2: A Phone Conversation
When a woman finds the wind-chimes she made in 8th grade shop class, she calls an old friend to talk about the thing they did and why she still can't forgive herself. If you're interested, please visit the website for information about the origins of this piece.
Dec 20, 2008•7 min
How To Be A Man...(sort of)
As a special Thanksgiving episode, this is a story about fathers, sons, the woods, and the never-ending quest to figure out what it means to be a man. (Non-fiction)
Nov 28, 2008•10 min
Stories of Lost and Found #3: The Letters
One of a series of short-short pieces about things lost and things found. A couple receives a letter from a friend who has been dead for almost a year. (Fiction)
Nov 21, 2008•3 min
And I Have No Idea What Happened To Him After That
We like to believe that we have control on our lives. That we can sculpt perfect moments around us. That if we put ourselves in the right setting with the right people everything can be everything we want it to be. A few weeks ago, two of my best friends, Nell and Pete, came in from out of town for what started as a perfect weekend. But as the weekend got closer to the end, and as we tried to hold on to that perfect moment, things spun out of our control when the forces of nature and of life cha...
Jul 07, 2008•13 min
One Reason When Visiting Sacred Sites It's Important To Remember That You Are Not An Aboriginal But Grew Up In The Suburbs
Or: How not to commune with foreign cultures. -- I lived in Australia for seven months in 2003 and 2004, almost half of which I spent travelling in a car with my friend Dave and a german girl named Susanne. This is a story about an experience I had at a beautiful place in Litchfield National Park called The Buley Rock Pools. That's actually a picture of Dave at the Buley Rock Pools to the right. This piece was originally published in a literary journal called Storyscape at www.storyscapejournal....
May 29, 2008•7 min
The Rabbi
What it means to be 20 years old. (Non-fiction)
Apr 17, 2008•7 min
A Length of Time is Measured By the Space Between 2 Hands
This is not a radio piece. It's actually the last film that I made. (Which means if you don't have a video ipod you may want to watch this online at ryanscammell.com) For the last two years, it's been sitting in a drawer being watched only by dust-bunnies. For some reason, though I spent about half a year working on it, I showed to almost no one after I completed it. I watched it again last night and was surprised by how much I liked it. For all the time I spent in college exploring these themes...
Mar 16, 2008•12 min
The Other
There's a million ways to fall in love, and a million ways to fall apart. Sometimes all it takes is an email. (Non-fiction)
Sep 30, 2007•12 min
It's Just A Matter of Time
Liza Minnelli is downing red wine in her tour bus. The stagehands all together look like a Judas Priest cover band. Coney Island is a Ferris Wheel slowing to a stop. Andy Warhol! Incubated babies! Lawsuits! Lions in flames! It all comes together at a Liza concert in 2005. (Non-fiction)
Aug 27, 2007•14 min
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