Allen Cordell
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Allen Cordell is a filmmaker and artist living in Manhattan. He attended high school in upstate New York and wanted to become a comic book illustrator before deciding to pursue film and fine art. Cordell attended Purchase College in Purchase, New York, to study cinema in the school's competitive filmmaking conservatory.
Developing a love for documentary, experimental and narrative cinema, Cordell's student films often blurred the distinctions between these genres. He won an award for best documentary his sophomore year for his portrait of John D. Phillips, an outsider artist suffering from mental illness
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Cordell directed the music video for Dan Deacon
's 2006 Big Big Big Big Big and is currently producing his first feature film, Some Kind of Awful, which he wrote and directed. He is also the director, editor and cinematographer of Beach House
's peculiar music video "A Walk in the Park".
Developing a love for documentary, experimental and narrative cinema, Cordell's student films often blurred the distinctions between these genres. He won an award for best documentary his sophomore year for his portrait of John D. Phillips, an outsider artist suffering from mental illness
Mental illness
A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and which is not a part of normal development or culture. Such a disorder may consist of a combination of affective, behavioural,...
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Cordell directed the music video for Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is an American composer and electronic musician based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2003, Deacon has released eight albums under several different labels...
's 2006 Big Big Big Big Big and is currently producing his first feature film, Some Kind of Awful, which he wrote and directed. He is also the director, editor and cinematographer of Beach House
Beach House
Beach House is a dream pop duo formed in 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland, consisting of French-born Victoria Legrand and Baltimore native Alex Scally. Their self-titled debut, Beach House, released in 2006, was critically acclaimed. This was followed by their second release, Devotion, in 2008...
's peculiar music video "A Walk in the Park".