"DADDY" (5-MINUTE HBO COMIC SHORT)
ART DIRECTION + TITLES: chronicallyaskew (c/o chronicallyaskew)
WRITER + DIRECTOR: Sid Karger (*Official Selection of Shout: The HBO GLBT Short Film Competition)
CLIENT + MEDIA: HBO (New York, NY); 5-Minute Comic Short (U.S.A.)
BACKSTORY: Sid is an adored former copy partner of mine, so I was totally psyched to be asked to work with 
him on this award-scoring short. Though credited legitimately as Art Director and Title Designer my contributions 
were many...from location scouting to baby casting and producer procuring to how-to-convey-on-film-that-a-button-
has-flown-across-a-room-after-having-popped-off-an-office-whitie. The rendition you see here is not the final edit,  
i.e. that in which the colors of my titles were saturated for proper clarity. Once screened the pink and blue tincture 
of all credited Ys should make perfect sense, as should the baby's breath nudge in the first restaurant scene.  
(The film was shot with a very low budget over the course of 4 weeks though fared superbly with HBO OnDemand 
and has screened at more than a dozen festivals. It is also now airing on MTV LOGO.)




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