Part of the American Writers Museum in Chicago, "Dark Testament" highlights and honors Black American writers from the end of the Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement. This was a great project. I worked with Trivium Interactive on the 4-screen presentation. Using narration, dramatic readings, archival imagery, and on-camera thoughts by contemporary authors and scholars the film explores the significant contributions of Black writers to American literature and history. This is just the opening section of the film.

If you find yourself on the National Mall in Washington D.C. be sure to check out The Lockkeeper's House! The oldest structure on the Mall, the Lockkeeper's House has been there since the C&O Canal ran through the center of D.C. I worked directly with the team at Trivioum Interactive to create this three-screen documentary about the House. It was a challenging project. The two "screens" on either side are not movie screens at all. The video is projected onto the actual stone wall of the building. We had to do several tests to determine what kind of imagery worked best on that kind of surface. In addition, the walls were set back about a foot or so from the center screen (which lowers down from the ceiling as the show begins) so it was tricky to get the focus and alignment correct since some shots and animations stretch across all three screens. Did I mention that it's three screens, but only two projectors? The talented folks at Electrosonic figured out how to get all to look fantastic.

Another unique challenge from the museum world. Produced for the Harry S Truman Library & Museum by Monadnock Media, this film is about President Truman and the United States's recognition of Israel as a nation/state after WWII. It's a very interesting piece of history, but what made it challenging editorially was the decision to treat one HD projection as multiple screens. Using the Star of David as a base, the exhibit designer broke up the 1920X1200 projection into a bunch of triangular shapes. I treated each shape as its own "screen" to hold different imagery, or parts of an image that occasionally fills the entire projection. This was a fun project to be a part of. Worked with a great group at Monadnock.

Produced by Cortina Productions, I edited this two-screen video that plays as you exit the Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs travelling exhibit. Please email me at mike@sullivanedit.com for login info to view this passord-protected film.

This seven-screen film, produced for the Medal of Honor Museum in South Carolina aboard the USS Yorktown, explores the many ideas behind the word "freedom", what it means to be free, and the people that fight to maintain our freedoms.

When the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital moved into a brand new facility in 2013 they asked Forge Worldwide and BPI to create several multi-screen video presentations for use throughout the facility. The six-screen version can be seen in their lobby. Other versions, from five screen to single screen cut-downs, are sprinkled about in hallways and conference rooms. Each video features a former patient doing something physical after their time at the Hospital. In this sample, the skier wearing the blue and black lost a leg in the Boston Marathon Bombing. The videos have no sound, just imagery. The videos were primarily shot in 4K which gave me the flexibility of changing compositions and framing during the edit based on the number of screens the shot needed to cover, etc.

The Robot Revolution is here! For this project, a traveling exhibit produced for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, I had to re-write the script, help organize a new shoot with 4 humans and 1 robot, as well as design, create, and animate the futuristic background set and all the different robots and video-screens that appear within the final composite. Hopefully, when the Robot Overlords take over they will look kindly upon me.

An oldie but a goodie. This three-screen show was done for the Philadelphia Zoo in 2007 as part of its Big Cat Falls exhibit (which would win an AZA award in 20017.) It was supposed to just be some eye-candy that was placed in a pass-through section of the zoo, but it proved so popular that they ended up installing seating and turning it into a mini-theater and it stayed at the zoo through 2016.