Short Film releasing on November 30, 2021 at 6:00 PM EST
An intimate look into the mind of abstract artist Callen Schaub and the imaginative world of paint and color he has quite literally immersed himself within. Following Schaub, as he embarks on his most expansive project yet - a 20x10 foot canvas connected to a flying trapeze of pouring paint - Chasing Rainbows is a short but vibrant portrait exploring color, emotion, imagination, inspiration, and what it means to commit oneself to the everyday life pursuit of the spectacular.
CREDITS:
Starring
- Callen Schaub
- Veronika "Sparkles" Radolovich
- Disco the dog
Director/Editor/Producer
- Maximum Brauch
Music Composer
- Cole Seawell
Sound Recordist
- Guilien Skorny
Sound Mixer
- Damian Kearns
Colorist
- Josh Allen
Callen Schaub is an abstract artist based in Montreal, Canada. He is recognized for his vibrant paintings using trapezes, pendulums, and spinning machines. Schaub openly shares his painting process with viewers and inspires fans everywhere to participate in his "Fake Art" movement. With paintings hanging in collections across the globe, Callen continues to make the world a more colorful place, one artwork at a time.
Maximum Brauch (b. 2000) is a Toronto-based filmmaker, currently studying film production at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal. Working in both video and photography, his work revolves around the ever-evolving complexities of human relationships and the dichotomy between the external physical world and the internal spiritual self. Though still developing his artistic voice, Brauch has already received recognition for his films. His work was selected as part of the TIFF Next Wave Jump Cuts Festival, and he won the Emerging Youth Artist Award at the Toronto Youth Short Film Festival, as well as the Graduating Student Award at the Lake- shorts International Shorts Film Festival. He has also received two Scholastic Arts and Writing Award Gold Keys for Dramatic Script and Photography.