About Eric
Eric Strange has been creating short films for the last decade of his life. In more recent years he has honed his skills in specific areas of concentration and continues to work and learn every day. During his high school career Eric was enrolled in a creative writing film coarse where his interest for cinematic creation was peaked. Since starting the coarse, Eric has worked on several projects as a freelance photographer/videographer and director/writer.
Eric has worked on everything from music videos, short films, and promotional materials to working live events and concerts with renowned musical artists such as Blue October, The Toadies, 38 Special, Kansas, The Wallflowers, and others. He has also worked alongside various TV personalities including various members of the Duck Dynasty series during the Duck Commander 500. Eric continues to challenge himself daily with creative ideas to expand upon, looking for inspiration in every thing he sees, and finding it everywhere he looks.
Eric has worked on everything from music videos, short films, and promotional materials to working live events and concerts with renowned musical artists such as Blue October, The Toadies, 38 Special, Kansas, The Wallflowers, and others. He has also worked alongside various TV personalities including various members of the Duck Dynasty series during the Duck Commander 500. Eric continues to challenge himself daily with creative ideas to expand upon, looking for inspiration in every thing he sees, and finding it everywhere he looks.
Artist Statement
I was innocent and young, looking for my sister who had gone missing a few hours before, when I was lured into the house of her murderer. A ridiculously loud gunshot rang out and my now deceased body was dragged off screen while the JAWS theme song played through the scrolling credits: my first film. At the age of 11, my friend and I made a short film, which depicted our real life neighbor as a psychotic shovel-wielding gun-toting child killer. The neighbor, in actuality, was an angry old woman who was oddly protective of her property line, she would call the police on cars parked in front of her house, take photographic evidence of children "trespassing" when they were retrieving a Frisbee, baseball, RC air planes, etc. But in the case of our over-the-top "based on true events" movie, there was no evidence left behind.
The movie became an instantaneous smash hit…among my family and close friends. Although the film had several dark elements it was still funny due to the origin of the story and the characters that were in it. After this film I delved into other aspects of creative fields such as acting, musical performance, drawing, painting, and a few others. I found myself constantly looking at the world of film though. Whether it was on my couch, in the theater, or on the family computer, I could never get enough. It seemed as if there were an endless list of movies, each with their own unique ideas and impacts on the viewer. They were definite and stable, they provided organization for me in a time of my life that was and is still chaotic and confusing. Even if the ideas presented in the film are not clear-cut and one dimensional, they still have a definite identity and inevitable beginning and end. I laughed, I cried, I cheered, and regardless of what movie or setting I was in I still felt SOMETHING. That ability, to invoke a feeling or emotion of any kind, is what has led me back to making films time and time again. Though the people on screen are fakes in a fake world of fake situations and problems, the feelings of those who are before the screen are very, very real.
In a world where feelings and emotions are often categorized as taboo and uncomfortable to express, the movie theater invites you to leave reality for a predestined amount of time to feel whatever you choose to feel without the prying eyes of society. I want to help people feel. I don’t want to win an academy award, I don’t want money, I don’t want the fame. I want to invite people, young and old, to become captivated by the images on screen and allow their feelings and ideas to flow freely. I also want to influence people to create something, the way I was influenced to create by those before me. If an individual's creation can influence people to think, feel, and create something of their own, that end result is more important than the initial creation itself. Though it is never seen, a buildings foundation is what was there before the walls were erected, it is what holds it in place, it is the beginning of something much grander, and during its existence it moves nowhere but up.
I could say that I was influenced by Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, or Martin Scorsese, but they were all just tools and steel beams in the enormous tower of my artistic development. I guess I would have to thank my cranky neighbor Irene, whose persistent annoyance was my source of artistic expression: the foundation. She allowed me to take the opportunity to create something positive and entertaining out of something previously thought to be negative and unpleasant. Creativity isn't just one's ability to think of something that hasn't been done before, but someone's determination and willingness to use that creativity to CREATE something permanent and timeless that will forever remain an icon of originality and become the foundation for others to build off of for years to come. I want to be the foundation. I will be the foundation.
-Eric Strange
The movie became an instantaneous smash hit…among my family and close friends. Although the film had several dark elements it was still funny due to the origin of the story and the characters that were in it. After this film I delved into other aspects of creative fields such as acting, musical performance, drawing, painting, and a few others. I found myself constantly looking at the world of film though. Whether it was on my couch, in the theater, or on the family computer, I could never get enough. It seemed as if there were an endless list of movies, each with their own unique ideas and impacts on the viewer. They were definite and stable, they provided organization for me in a time of my life that was and is still chaotic and confusing. Even if the ideas presented in the film are not clear-cut and one dimensional, they still have a definite identity and inevitable beginning and end. I laughed, I cried, I cheered, and regardless of what movie or setting I was in I still felt SOMETHING. That ability, to invoke a feeling or emotion of any kind, is what has led me back to making films time and time again. Though the people on screen are fakes in a fake world of fake situations and problems, the feelings of those who are before the screen are very, very real.
In a world where feelings and emotions are often categorized as taboo and uncomfortable to express, the movie theater invites you to leave reality for a predestined amount of time to feel whatever you choose to feel without the prying eyes of society. I want to help people feel. I don’t want to win an academy award, I don’t want money, I don’t want the fame. I want to invite people, young and old, to become captivated by the images on screen and allow their feelings and ideas to flow freely. I also want to influence people to create something, the way I was influenced to create by those before me. If an individual's creation can influence people to think, feel, and create something of their own, that end result is more important than the initial creation itself. Though it is never seen, a buildings foundation is what was there before the walls were erected, it is what holds it in place, it is the beginning of something much grander, and during its existence it moves nowhere but up.
I could say that I was influenced by Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, or Martin Scorsese, but they were all just tools and steel beams in the enormous tower of my artistic development. I guess I would have to thank my cranky neighbor Irene, whose persistent annoyance was my source of artistic expression: the foundation. She allowed me to take the opportunity to create something positive and entertaining out of something previously thought to be negative and unpleasant. Creativity isn't just one's ability to think of something that hasn't been done before, but someone's determination and willingness to use that creativity to CREATE something permanent and timeless that will forever remain an icon of originality and become the foundation for others to build off of for years to come. I want to be the foundation. I will be the foundation.
-Eric Strange