hotograph by Douglas Kirkland. Mark Kirkland poses with a Debrie Parvo -- a hand-cranked movie camera made in Paris in the 1920s.

Mark Kirkland is a three-time Emmy award-winning director (The Simpsons), an award-winning filmmaker, writer/director. He studied drawing, animation, filmmaking and received a BFA degree from The California Institute of The Arts (CalArts). Kirkland is an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and a former Governor for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He has a life long interest in fine art and illustration and is a avid sketchbook artist.  


 

Sketchbook


 
 

Bud's Odyssey


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100 years ago in a long forgotten movie studio... Ellen, an aspiring actress, seeks her "lucky break" in a studio where everything goes wrong.

A short silent film (22 minutes) by three-time Primetime Emmy award-winning filmmaker Mark Kirkland.

Featuring "Weird Al" Yankovic, Haskell Wexler, ASC, and more.


 

 

Mark Kirkland demonstrates how to use a vintage Bell and Howell 2709 camera used in the silent era, designed in 1912. Mark is known for his work on The Simpsons, A Letter from Home and most recently, his short, The Moving Picture Co. 1914, which is up for Academy Consideration. 

Watch the full version here.