Special Projects

Barbara Ligeti is a writer, producer and director who started life as an actress and dancer. She discovered Pilate’s at Romana Kryzanowska’s New York studio in the 70’s.

She approaches any project with incredible energy and insight. “Romana's Pilates: Powerhouse Mat Workout” was no different. Barbara needed a place to complete this superb program of exercise and rejuvenation with Romana one of Mr. Pilates’ special students. American Montage provided her with edit suite, editor and the atmosphere to post-produce this wonderful multiple camera video how to series.

Initiated through the AMI website, this project brought together
a diverse and exciting creative team to produce a high-definition video wall for VNU’s new corporate headquarters in New York City. VNU, Inc. is the corporate parent of ACNielsen, Billboard Magazine, Hollywood Reporter and other media.

American Montage and Steven Meyer, in association with Tulsa Productions, Anthony Naglemann and Landor Design focused intensely on creating an atmospheric, technologically complex video installation. Ten (10) six-foot-wide high-definition video monitors reveal choreographed motifs that represent the VNU core business of media measurement.

The "Pass the Torch" speaker series features discussions with outstanding artists, entertainers, journalists and media personalities whose careers have been distinguished by their social consciousness and activism.

In this unique forum sponsored by the Black Filmmaker Foundation, dvRepublic.com and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Institute of African American Affairs, these mentors and griots in the fight for social and racial justice are invited to "pass the torch" to the next generation of activists.

These illustrious speakers include: Harry Belafonte, Michael Moore, Pam Grier, Sonia Braga, Katherine Dunham, Jamal Joseph, James Mtume, Felipe Luciano, Derrick Bell, and C. Daniel Dawson. These lectures include a comprehensive biography of each speaker and are broken into convenient 16 part series of 30-minute programs.

"Old Black Magic" is the outrageous music video
which is at the heart of Eric Marciano's film "Narrowcast."

It uses the classic Johnny Mercer song in a brilliant arrangement by Art Labriola to vent the main character's frustrations and anger.
It is also very funny, eye-catching and explosive.

At festivals around the world, this music video provokes howls of laughter and standing ovations.

The piece was produced in 35mm and required substantial
mutl-layered work in Flame. It has to be seen to be believed.

This post-modern music video for the Williamsburg, Brooklyn band
and European Sensation Nada Surf was directed by John Kelsey and produced by Eric Marciano.

American Montage's Antek Walzcak took the post-production role
for this piece. Taking cues from Jean Luc Godard's "Numero Deux,"
Antek and John created a world of visual ennui.

The music is great too!

Amy Fairchild's song "The Invisible One" evokes
some fairly powerful imagery. And it required special locations,
specific props and subtle special effects.

This might be AMI's last-ever 16 mm production.
The costs and difficulties of 16 mm production versus the ease and look of DV, are changing the balance between creativity versus budget constraints. In the future it might just be digital and 35 mm.

Through this techical window, AMI has created a video which attempts to capture the feelings and musical tone of this great song.

American Montage responded to a request to make a fun, visually-provocative music video that would match the mood and creative direction of the Northampton, Mass. band Aloha Steamtrain.

Deeply influenced by the drug-laden 1960s, the band brought with them psychedelic props and memorabilia that was to appear throughout the video.

Director, producer, and post-producer Eric Marciano strove to ensure that the band's ideas were clearly represented in "Misty Paradise."

The result is a playful music video with spectacular computer graphics (created by AMI's Benjamin Williams) in eye-pleasing, vivid candy-like colors. The final product was delivered under budget too!