Kyle S. Glowacky- Director Extraordinaire
The artist behind “IOKA,” is a Brentwood, NH resident who currently studies film at Emerson College in Boston, MA. Glowacky has also studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Film and TV school Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He is interested in approaching film as an art-form and exploring what the medium can do. Glowacky’s love for the medium of painting has lead him to rethink his outlook on the medium of film. His love of hiking and traveling has also impacted the way he views film as an exploration. Glowacky once worked at the Ioka Theater, starting out behind the concessions counter and working his way up to becoming a projectionist; a job he had dreamed about as a young kid. His job at the theater led him to see film in a whole new light, a film is acetate (a type of plastic) which is projected with light upon a screen. This is the broad science of film for which Glowacky approaches the art form. Glowacky thinks of film as a projection of light instead of seeing it as a narrative.
Charles Swazey- Director of Photography
Hailing from central Pennsylvania, Charles Swazey has a deep passion for the outdoors. He now lives in Cambridge, MA and can no longer hike frequently. Resultantly, he cycles to escape the city.
Swazey is a person who favors function over flourish in his design and photography. The Bauhaus movement has had large influences on how he works. As a result he tries to make work that – works. For more information and examples see Charles’ website at CharlesSwazey.com.
John E. Kerr- Producer
John E. Kerr is a Recent Graduate from Emerson College’s honors program magna cum laude with a B.A. in Film. Kerr specializes in directing and has done most of the grant writing for this film. He has directed a short 16mm film “Rocket Summer.” Kerr currently resides in New Jersey and is preparing to move out to Los Angeles.
Alex Moore-Niemi- Assistant Camera & Large Format Photographer
Alex Moore-Niemi has graduated Emerson College with a BFA in Film. He has lit, shot, hand-processed, and edited 16mm film, HD video, and large format film. He has worked in black & white and color darkooms. As well as in digital labs using drum scanners, Beta decks, DV decks, and nearly everything Adobe’s ever put together including Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and InDesign. For more information and examples see Alex’s website at Fifth Ace.
Ali Areskog- Master of the Internet, Website Designer, & Administrator.
Ali Areskog works on a wide range of projects. Originally hailing from New York, she has moved to Boston (hopefully) permanently. Since moving to Boston, she has worked on everything from producing a short in HD to puppeteering at an MIT dramashop production. One day, she hopes to work as a 3D modeler. But, at the moment she can be found at the Genius Bar at the Apple store and teaching classes at Everett Community Television. Her animation and film work can be found at Youtube.
LJ Frezza- Assistant Editor
LJ Frezza is a film and video maker from Jacksonville, FL. One of his favorite things to do is to go to his local library, check out a backpack full of VHS tapes, and then go home and re-edit them into found footage videos. He buys most of his possessions from eBay and thrift stores and would buy his food secondhand if he could. He believes in reusing and repurposing what’s available, instead of wasting time and resources making brand new things. For more information and examples see LJ’s website at Emerson Pages.
Ryan Howell- Still Photographer
Ryan Howell is a local artist. He recently received his BFA in Photography from the University of New Hampshire, and has both taught and volunteered in a variety of local schools, including the CMS in Stratham, Oyster River Middle School in Durham, and Noble High School in North Berwick. His works have been exhibited around the seacoast for the last several years. He began working at the Ioka in 2003, and remained there as a projectonist through its closing in December. For examples of Ryan’s Photography see his site at Flickr.
Matt Mitchell- Gaffer and Sound Recordist
Matt Mitchell, a New England native, is an experimental narrative filmmaker and musician. He prefers to shoot on film whenever possible, though he enjoys the convenience and low cost of shooting digitally. Matt functions on his own films as a director, actor, composer, and editor. He records and performs in the New England area as Kid Chameleon, as one half of Poltergeist Friction, and plays keys and sings for The Cinnamon Fuzz. Matt is host and co-producer of Bandwidth TV, a music show on Cambridge Community Television that features performances by and interviews with a wide variety of artists, broadcast several times a week in Cambridge, Boston and other cities in the area. He has booked shows for artists such as Knifestorm, Harris Newman and Bruce Cawdron (of Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Micah Blue Smaldone, Sabers, Officer May, Aa, Japanther, Tunnel of Love, Emil Beaulieau, Prurient, Xome, Vampire Belt (featuring Chris Corsano, drummer for Björk and Sunburned Hand of the Man), Eloe Omoe, Fast Forward (featuring members of Wrangler Brutes and The Locust), Orthrelm, and Mystery Brinkman (Matt Brinkman of Mindflayer and Forcefield). Matt enjoys drawing and photography, and his work has been featured at the Washington Street Art Center in Somerville, MA. When he isn’t making money off of his own work, he can be found slaving away on studio feature film sets, foreign car garages, video transfer labs, and down on the farm.
