BrainDagger Films is a Cleveland-based video and music production studio,  producing videos for causes, events, non-profits, bands, businesses, etc. that Moe and Kathryn find interesting, entertaining, or thought-provoking. If your business is interested in hiring us to produce a video we would be thrilled to hear from you! You can reach Moe on the contact page at the bottom of the site. For sample videos click on the upper right corner of the page or scroll down.

We just opened a branch in Jaco, Costa Rica, and are very proud to serve the entire country. PURA VIDA!

Recently we released a 30-minute documentary short for the film festival circuit known by "As Organism". We were awarded 40+ laurels from festivals around the world! We are currently working on a groundbreaking, ten-part docuseries with "As Organism" as the pilot/proof of concept. BrainDagger is in talks with major networks right now! We also released "Gelker in the Treehouse", the story of a family trying to make it through the coronavirus in Costa Rica at their isolated jungle treehouse. This one has got us 12 Laurels so far! Most recently we entered our documentary on Ohio's terrible House Bill Six (HB6) into IndieX Film Festival and it has already won Best Mockumentary/Docucomedy! We are also partnering up with One Blood Records 

to promote a new concert/music festival series in Costa Rica called "Arte Pura Vida". Our goal is to give up-and-coming Latin American artists a voice and a chance to perform with some of the biggest names around. We have just completed our fifth film and are looking into festivals for the world premiere right now. Unfortunately, this

means we can't show it on our website for now but here is the poster at least lol.

"THE IMPORTANCE OF STRANGE PERCEPTIONS"

“The Importance of Strange Perceptions” | Independent Movie Review

Langdon Alger | Independent Movie Review

REVIEW:

The Importance of Strange Perceptions, by Moe Taylor (Director, Editor, Writer, Producer), explores the world of psychedelics, while more specifically focusing on the psychoactive substance ayahuasca, and the journeys a few people experienced in their pursuit of trying to find answers to issues about themselves that they were attempting to understand.

Wanting to “explode your head” the project jumps right into the deep end with exploring the concept of “what is reality” and mankind’s explorative nature, and it’s pursuit of pushing ever outward into the oceans and onward into outer space, but then ponders what if some of our most important discoveries aren’t the complex inner workings of our own minds that we have only begun to try and understand.

Connecting the threads of humans needing to understand one’s own self in order to heal oneself, the project discusses the explored concept of “releasing the valves” of your mind in order to expand your perception. If “every organism on Earth understands reality differently” then perhaps psychedelics could be a different alternative to the accepted traditional substances that might “only treat symptoms without getting to the core issues”.

One of the things I enjoyed, was that all the people in the project were really able to articulate their experiences in a very thoughtful and concise way. Their experiences left me thinking that they were able to get something from their journeys that they were needing and just were not able to find before. But at the same time, the project wasn’t about advocating for people to just go try ayahuasca or take other psychedelics. The project really just shared some stories and encouraged people to think about things a little differently, if you’re in need of finding some inner peace or structure, and that “knowledge is good”.

So yeah, I thought the project was really well done on many levels. Moe projects that this project was “edited in a rapid chaotic form in the hopes that the viewer can get a dose of what it was like being [himself]”, but to me The Importance of Strange Perceptions was visually stimulating and complex, but in those complexities all the pieces fit together nearly perfect and therefore simplified a lot of information and philosophical ideas, so you were able to see the forest through the communicative trees.

TECHNICAL CRITIQUE:

Again, Moe Taylor (Editor), prefaces the project with explaining that the hectic style of the edit was deliberate to emphasize the inner workings of his head. But that style is almost creating a genre on its own and I think he has mastered the craft of stock video narration. How the BrainDagger Films team is able to blend the interviews with the stock video, and then blend more stock video into other stock video is quite amazing. Some of the connections are just like, “how did they even think to look for that type of stock footage”. I don’t know. It’s an art onto itself.

Besides that I thought the narration, by Brain Stivale, was perfect for the project. Sound was great and had no issues. The original music was great. Only thing that I thought could have been better was the green screen interview effects. There was a contrast at times between the high resolution stock footage and some of the green screen edges, but green screen is an art to itself and being on location and dealing with budgets, it’s tough, so I get that it wasn’t perfect, but by no means distracted from the project overall. I love the projects, like this one, were you can just sit back and watch and not get distracted by the technical issues. Great job everybody on The Importance of Strange Perceptions.

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"Hard Core (Nucleo Dura)" is a new song made as the theme for our next documentary currently in production called,"The Importance of Strange Perceptions".

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