Videography / Animation
Andre has filmed & animated his own music videos over the years and enjoys the creative process going with a strong DIY ethos. He shoots with a canon 550d dslr combined with collected retro manual primes & anamorphic glass.

"The Rat King is Coming" new music video by krackatoa featuring menacing soft toys in disconcerting low light. 2014

Filmed by Andre William Owen with t2i using manual primes carl zeiss Jena biotar 2/58 , Pentacon 2.8/29, Jupiter 37A, wide shots proskar 2x anamorphicLocation around Auckland New Zealand
Equipment used DIY Rotorig
Canon t2i  with Magic lantern hack

Soundtrack - The Rat King is Coming

Corporate Conga Line, inspired by 2008 financial crisis, a response to the voodoo economics world in which we live. Film was solo shot on locations around New Zealand's North Island April 2011.

Filmed on a Canon t2i mostly using old manual primes with Proskar anamorphic 2x attached. Lenses used, Super Takumar 55 1.8 , Proskar Anamorphic-16 2x, Canon 18-55 EF-S, Pentacon 2.8/29,Canon EF 50mm 1.8 II, UVTopcor 1:2 53mm.

Soundtrack - Corporate Conga Line
Album  - Dining on Backs of the Brave

Filming time-lapse of super-cell clouds over Auckland city.

Filmed on a Canon t2i  with Proskar anamorphic 2x attached. Lenses used, Super Takumar 55 1.8 , Proskar Anamorphic-16 2x,  jupiter 135mm.

Soundtrack - Long White Cloud

Filming Auckland city Chinese lantern festival.

Filmed on a Canon t2i mostly using  jupiter 135mm.

Soundtrack - Little Red Lantern

Hikikomori animated music video

The whole Hikikomori cartoon project was inspired by a BBC documentary in 2002 looking at how estimated 1 million young Japanese people withdraw from society and stay in their rooms for years without venturing outside. They just play computer games at night and sleep all day and feel abandoned in the company driven society.

Animated by Andre Owen 2003
Soundtrack - Hikikomori
Album - Sun dripping down the Stainglass