200 hours of footage, dusty boxes of film, a broken editing computer: these were the pieces of filmmaker Richard P. Rogers’ daring attempt to make his own autobiography. He died in 2001, leaving behind a lifetime of filmed memories, until his student and protégé, Alexander Olch began making a movie out of the pieces.

After its nationwide art house run this summer The Windmill Movie airs on Wednesday 10/28 at 8pm EST on HBO.

Music by Michael Montes.

Here’s the trailer:

FOUR STARS – CRITICS’ PICK – “Mind bending” – Time Out

“A love letter to fading memory and the passage of time” – New York Magazine

“Both a near uncategorizable feat of documentary filmmaking and a gorgeously constructed emotional portrait of a man grappling with the deepest of artistic and personal issues.” – Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine.

Here’s one from their new seven spot campaign.

Music by Sacred Noise.

UNITAID has launched a global ‘thank you’ campaign to highlight achievements in global health thanks to the steady support of its contributors. Launched by Brazil, Chile, France, Norway and the United Kingdom in 2006, UNITAID is an international facility that uses innovative, long-term financing to expand access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries.

Music by Michael Montes.

We created a whole new sonic identity for the Swedish network TV3.

Visuals by Trollbäck & Co.

From the folks at Digitas, the suddenly ubiquitous Chantix campaign.

Music by Sacred Noise.

Here’s one in a series of new image pieces for Johnnie Walker.

Visuals by Digital Kitchen.

Music by Michael Montes.

A roster of powerful speakers and performers explores “The Substance of Things Not Seen” at TEDGlobal 2009.

Visuals by Trollbäck & Co.

Music by Michael Montes.

Here’s the AICP Sponsor Open for 2009.

Visuals by Trollbäck & Co.

Music by Michael Montes.

Q: What do these four award winners have in common?
A: Music by Michael Montes.

SALES, MARKETING OR INTERNAL PRESENTATION

Gold
AICP 08 Awards Show Open
Thornberg & Forester

Silver
Pop!Tech 08 Open
Trollbäck + Company

Bronze
World Science Festival 08 Open
Trollbäck + Company

NETWORK PACKAGE DESIGN

Silver
Planet Green Network Package
Thornberg & Forester

New film directed by Alexander Olch and scored by Michael Montes.

Richard P. Rogers (1943-2001) was a NYC baby boomer, born to privilege: a Harvard-educated WASP who became a first-rate independent filmmaker and a gifted film teacher. But he was also a tortured, neurotic soul who freely admitted to bring jealous of Steven Spielberg and was simultaneously ashamed of the impulse. Torn between narrow class loyalties and broader professional goals and political values, Rogers found the time to juggle multiple relationships with the skill of a world-class Lothario, but was unable to complete an autobiographical film he had worked on for 25 years. His former student Alexander Olch collages a trove of material, including extraordinary scenes of Rogers’s mink-coated Gorgon-mom, and new fictional sequences with Wallace Shawn.

Opens at THE FILM FORUM NYC June 17th and cities nationwide in July.

Here’s the website.

Here’s the trailer:

Opening night for this year’s World Science Festival celebrated the 80th birthday of E.O. Wilson, America’s preeminent naturalist and a founding father of the environmental movement.

The sold-out event was held at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.

In keeping with the spirit of the occasion Jakob Trollbäck and Michael Montes created this exquisite “Subatomic Ballet”.

Here is the new AICP Show open, a post-electronic pastoral dreamscape, with visuals by Imaginary Forces.

Now serving New York City for more than 25 years, City Harvest is the world’s first food rescue organization. This year, City Harvest will collect 26 million pounds of excess food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms. This food is then delivered free of charge to more than 600 community food programs throughout New York City using a fleet of trucks and bikes as well as volunteers on foot. Each week, City Harvest helps over 260,000 hungry New Yorkers find their next meal.

We were honored to create the soundtrack for this year’s City Harvest fundraiser:

Here’s how you can help.

We poured out three little gems with Digital Kitchen and Radical Media.

Here’s one of them: