IDEAS Screening Event: The Month Between April and May

THE MONTH BETWEEN APRIL AND MAY is a collaboration between composer-producer Myles Ortiz-Green and director Kai Tattersall. The seventy-minute feature blends animation and live-action, using painted frame-by-frame overlays for the stylized image. The film is accompanied by complete surround sound supported by the state of the art immersive lab. The film explores estrangement through "May," a traveling nurse onboarding a hospital train, and the ensuing month between her and her patients. 100% human made.

Kai Tattersall is a Japanese-English-American director and visual artist whose work blends live-action performance with stylized animation across film, immersive media, and installation. He has created films for streaming, theater, installations, VR, and IMAX that combine live-action performances with stylized animation; his work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, and North America at festivals and galleries.

Born on the Okinawan islands in Japan, Tattersall developed an early interest in 2D animation. Throughout his career, he collaborated with animation pioneer Mike Patterson, developing a rotoscope animation approach that integrates traditional techniques with novel digital tools. This approach led to projects for clients including Disney, Paramount, CNN, Hulu, and The Academy.

Before commercial AI, Tattersall began incorporating open-source AI into his production workflow. This experimentation led to HEAVEN (2022), a hybrid live-action and animated project that premiered internationally and won Best Animated Short and Best Art Direction at the AI International Film Festival. Following the film’s completion, Tattersall established 2000blue, an animation studio focused on mixed-media animation dedicated to remove AI from all creative roles. Currently, 2000blue serves as the lead animation team for an undisclosed Tubi documentary, an independent feature and immersive experience for titled THE MONTH BETWEEN APRIL AND MAY, and a limited series, MIKO WAS HERE.

Myles Ortiz-Green is a multidisciplinary artist and composer based in San Diego, California, who has collaborated on a variety of films, multimedia projects, and installations. As a pianist and with a background in classical and jazz studies, they combine analogue and digital electronics and improvisation to manipulate samples and field recordings.

They pioneered the Beats by Dre “INAUGURAL BLACK FUTURE CREATOR PROGRAM” in 2020 and 2021 as an in-house composer, collaborating with film directors from institutions such as Morehouse, Howard, USC, Florida A&M, and North Carolina A&T State University. Their film scores have received nominations and have been included in notable events such as the Atlanta Horror Film Festival, San Francisco Short Festival, Black Truth Film Festival, Black Film & TV Collective Selection, Launderthestars, Cult Critic Movie Awards, and the 28th Annual DGA Student Film Award. They’ve also provided scores, sound design, and sound mixing for podcasts and commercials for various businesses and brands, including AMG, JanSport, and Chevrolet.

Myles is a graduate of Tulane University with a BA in Music, and an alumnus of the prestigious POSSE scholarship program. They are currently pursuing his PhD in Computer Music and Composition at the University of California San Diego.

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