FILMS
Films animated by Ben Wickey
The HOUSE of the
SEVEN GABLES
Directed by Ben Wickey
Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Starring David Frankham, Jonathan David Dixon, Joseph Stiliano
28 mins | 2018 | United States | English
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Haunted by the dark days of witchcraft hysteria in New England, the
Pyncheon family endeavors to lift a family curse and find buried treasure...
before ghostly terror can once more strike in
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES.
*CalArts Films*
These are films created at the California Institute of the Arts (or, CalArts.) Wickey's first year film, Down Into the Hear, was completed in 2015. His second-year film, Ray Bradbury's The Homecoming was released the night before Halloween, 2016, and was overseen by multiple-Emmy-winning screenwriter Bettina Bradbury, daughter of Ray Bradbury. The film has been accepted to numerous film festivals including the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon, and the Flint Fright FilmFest in Flint, Michigan, at which it won best film. Other films included here are The Leaf and the Rope, and Sleigh Bells Over Berlin, two first-year shorts created for classes. Wickey's fourth-year thesis film, an adaption of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, featuring beloved actor David Frankham, is currently contending at film festivals worldwide.
*Animation
for GOREY*
These are short animated sequences created by Ben Wickey for the upcoming documentary GOREY, about the mysterious writer and illustrator, Edward Gorey. Christopher Seufert chronicled the last four years of Gorey's life on Cape Cod, Massachusetts before his death in April of 2000. The short animations are all narrated by Gorey himself.
These videos have been re-edited from their theatrical appearance and uploaded onto YouTube via a partnership with TOPIC as a web series called Goreytelling.
You can learn more about the film at it's website:
https://www.edwardgoreyfilm.com/
Pre-purchase the Edward Gorey documentary media bundle and help this important documentary get made at IndieGoGo here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/edward-gorey-documentary-project/x/5381300
Also, you can get immediate gratification with our VIP program where you can see unreleased video clips (including animations!) that will never make it into the final documentary.
*Vistavox
The video on the left is a full episode of Prowl Car 9, an animated comedy-noir written and created by Ben Wickey and his father, Jim Wickey. The second is a clip from The Green House, a surreal, comedic sitcom which is nearing completion. Both are produced via production companies Vistavox Entertainment and Tweak Imagination.
http://www.tweakimagination.com/