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Joseph Kraemer

Animation / Video / Film, Drama, Literary, Multimedia, Visual / Media

About the Artist

Joe Kraemer is an award winning filmmaker, artist and writer based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He received his M.F.A. in Film and Media Arts at Temple University and his B.F.A. in Film from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. His films have exhibited at film festivals and conferences both nationally and internationally. His most recent film, Just Another Day, was nominated for a regional Emmy Award, received numerous industry accolades including a Gold Telly Award, and reached over 7 million views on YouTube in the three years since its debut. He has published articles in academic journals such as the Journal of Film and Video and the Journal of Media Education. He primarily teaches classes in film directing and media production for the Department of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University.

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Artist's Statement

My creative work spans from cinema to video art to interactive media to screenwriting and creative non-fiction. My creative work utilizes strategies of immersion, verisimilitude and self-reflexivity to engage the viewer at a sensory level and encourage heightened interactivity. Multi-layered soundscapes combine with distorted visuals to explore vision-versus-deprivation and to evoke a disrupted sensory experience within the viewer akin to the fragmented perspectives of my characters. The cinematic apparatus is often presented as a metaphor for the ephemeral, biased nature of human perception. I am creatively inspired by the “non-places” within society – urban ruins, empty lots, highway overpasses, industrial zones – transitory spaces we pass through, unseeing – are the cinematic backdrop for the personal, character-driven stories I explore.

Featured Work

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Tunnel Vision is an experimental narrative short film that explores the struggle between vision and blindness – both literal and metaphorical – that all people must face when confronting their past. Sarah and Brandon are ex-lovers who reunite after Brandon discovers that he suffers from a rare eye disorder that is slowly causing him to go blind. Faced with the dilemma of how to spend his last days with his fading vision, he convinces Sarah to drive him back to the places from their shared past so he can see them – and her – once more. SELECT SCREENINGS: International House, Philadelphia PA Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison WI Yonkers Film Festival, Yonkers NY Trenton Film Festival, Trenton NJ Cincinnati Film Festival, Cincinnati OH Alexandria Film Festival, Alexandria VA Chesapeake Film Festival, Easton MD Middle Coast Film Festival, Bloomington IN Media Film Festival, Media PA New Hope Film Festival, New Hope PA University Film and Video Association National Conference, Washington D.C.

Videos

  • Just Another Day

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    Reaching over 7 million views on YouTube in three years, Just Another Day portrays the experiences of a handful of students, professors and staff who come face-to-face with an active shooter attack on a college campus. Commissioned by Towson University as a public service announcement to promote increased awareness and preparedness in the campus community.

    SELECT AWARDS AND ACCOLADES:
    Nominee, Regional Emmy Awards, National Capital Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
    Gold Telly Award winner
    Best in Competition Award, Festival of Media Arts, Broadcast Education Association
    Award of Excellence, Communicator Awards
    Over 7 million views on YouTube in the 3 years after its launch
    Medium: 6K HD video
    Year: 2018
    Details: 12:08 runtime, 4096x2160

  • Family Medicine

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    A farcical short film about Dr. Susan Hardy's first day on the job at her father's rustic small-town family practice after taking over when a heart attack forces him into early retirement. Susan is determined to make the best of what she sees as a bad situation until her loquacious assistant, Betsy, and an unruly first patient cause everything to spiral out of control. Things only get worse when her father arrives to meddle in her affairs.

    SELECT SCREENINGS:
    Garden State Film Festival, Asbury Park NJ
    Maryland International Film Festival, Hagerstown MD (* Winner - Best Local Film Award)
    Palm Springs International Comedy Film Festival, Palm Springs CA
    Queen City Film Festival, Cumberland MD (*Winner - Appalachian Short Film Award)
    Ocean City Film Festival, Ocean City MD
    University Film and Video Association National Conference, Los Angeles CA
    Medium: 6K HD
    Year: 2018
    Details: 15:30 runtime

  • Ice-Bound

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    A study of space along the frozen shoreline of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the spring thaw. Intended for gallery exhibition, playing on a loop. Exhibited at Light City Baltimore in 2017. Additional exhibitions include the Minneapolis College of Art & Design Gallery, the Taubman Museum at Virginia Tech University and the Tyler School of Art Gallery at Temple University.
    Medium: SD Video
    Year: 2012
    Details: 4:05 runtime