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Aaron Dylan Kearns
@eyeodyssey.bsky.social
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Atlanta born and raised underground artist: Avant-garde filmmaker, noise artist, comic author, collage artist, obscure media aficionado. https://linktr.ee/eyeodyssey
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I was born just a few minutes before the midnight leading from the 2nd of December to the 3rd. If you're awake at such an hour and happen to see this, welcome to the birthday purgatory zone.
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Thank you so much to everyone who came out to see Intravenus' premiere. I'm still kind of in disbelief of how everything worked out. It's one thing to make the film in your creative space, it's another to see people get involved with the final outcome when it's being performed.
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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If you're around the Atlanta area, I hope you come to the screening as it really is an experience made for the theatric space with its incredible acting and style of filming and sound design. I can't emphasize enough the talent our actors brought to the film.
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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While I don't know a thing about promotion, I do know my love for the lost art of lobby cards, so in preparation I did this set of cards built up from numerous production stills.
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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With the screening being just a day away now, here is the complete set of lobby cards I designed to promote the Buried Alive Film Festival premiere of Intravenus at the Plaza Theatre in Atlanta, GA.
Tickets on the @plazaatlanta.bsky.social website:
www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/baff-2...
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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A newly edited trailer from my upcoming horror film, Intravenus.
This one's got more footage from the movie, including the video synth goodness that's typical to my stuff now. The movie will be premiering this Friday at 7PM as a part of the Buried Alive Film Festival at @plazaatlanta.bsky.social.
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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If there's one thing our crew and cast made certain of, it's a one of a kind film and not something you'd want to miss: Anatomical Venuses, industrial noise, phrenological black comedy, ghosts of the Futurist movement in a nightmarish present day and more...
October 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Quick reminder for those in Georgia that the Buried Alive Film Festival Intravenus tickets are currently being sold on the Plaza Theatre''s site! Seating will sell out so get your spot before it's too late.
www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/baff-2...
October 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Tickets for the Buried Alive screening of Intravenus are now live! You can get them on the Plaza Theatre's (@plazaatlanta.bsky.social) website. This is gonna sell out fast so reserve your seating while it's available!
www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/baff-2...
October 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Exciting bit of news today: I'm happy to announce that Intravenus will be having its first public showing this upcoming November with the 2025 Buried Alive Film Festival in Atlanta, GA. More news will be coming very soon about the date it will be shown and where you can get your tickets.
October 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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(Epilepsy warning)
Yesterday I edited the trailer for my newest micro-budget film project, Intravenus. Aside from sending out private screener copies, I'm currently planning possible ways to have the film shown.
August 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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With Intravenus' recent completion back on the 12th, now is as good a time as ever to reveal its three primary poster deigns. The first and third versions were designed by me while the second was painted by @idyllopus.bsky.social. More info on the finalized movie is to come soon.
Intravenus Poster Version 1: drawn by Aaron Dylan Kearns. Intravenus Poster Version 2: painted by Juli Maria Kearns. Intravenus Poster Version 3: drawn by Aaron Dylan Kearns.
August 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Production on The God Machine continues at the same time as Intravenus. My current plan is to have both films completed around the same time, likely following Intravenus directly with The God Machine.
June 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I can't emphasize enough how essential the talent of the actors and crew who volunteered was to giving the film its final personality. Fully knowing the minimal resources they committed themselves to the film, giving a surrealistic script a level of human realism.
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The headmaster looking over an IV bag. The unknown woman reluctantly approaching a stairwell that leads to the building's exit. A distorted shot of the headmaster authoritatively looking over Comet in the corner of the infirmary. Rudolph taunting the frozen doll version of Clarice with his horse marionette. Her eyes have moved, showing that she's still conscious despite her frozen state.
June 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The two days saw the wrapping of a large majority of the cast alongside the introduction of a new character. Most of the time since filming has been spent on editing and animating for The God Machine. Only two cutaway shoots are left later this month before the film officially wraps production.
The headmaster and Comet, the two are stood at a podium in the corner of the infirmary while the headmaster speak to Comet. An unknown woman (Megan Poole) trapped in the classroom from the film's prior scenes. She corners herself to one of the walls as she anxiously inspects the space. The unknown woman sneaking her way into the classroom. The headmaster laying on the floor in the infirmary, he's dying with some leftover rose petals from the table spread across the ground.
June 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The 26th and 28th of June were the final days of scripted principal photography for Intravenus. These filming days counted for a large part of the movie's closing segment alongside the first of a set of cutaways that provide further context to the film's scenario.
A distorted long shot that shows the headmaster (Joshua Haire) approaching Rudolph (Chandler Balli) and Comet (Lawson Reis) in a derelict infirmary. Comet is contorting on the ground in pain as Rudolph watches in fear. A shot of Rudolph and Clarice (Rachel Walker). Comet is inspecting an IV lead connected to Clarice as she is frozen in an unnatural doll-like state. They are in the infirmary. Rudolph, the headmaster and Comet overseeing Clarice as she is in her plasticized doll form. Rudolph and Comet are stood at IV stands that frame Clarice as she sits on a table that's decorated with rose petals and horse toys. The headmaster looking into a room through a door.
June 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Filming involved nonsensical phrenological exams, morbid anatomical projections, more mannequin puppetry, and a full table of Futurist-inspired cuisine served with a side of slight regret.

More can be read here.
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A Fututrist-reminiscent dish comprised of an indecipherable white creamy substance with salad leaves spread throughout. An eyeball is sticking out from the middle in a slit filled with jam with two pieces of metal as the outer structure. Continued from the prior screenshot, the eyeball is plucked from the dish. Upon being cracked open like an egg its blood is poured into a drink. A closeup of Joshua and Brice. Joshua is using a strange device on Brice's head to measure its shape.
May 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Amidst the activity of production, the 23rd also sadly marked the last day of production for Brice Heller and makeup artist and production worker Zia, both were involved with the production since its first day and will be missed on the last few days of shooting.
Another shot of the full cast. The headmaster (Joshua Haire) is no longer at the podium but rather standing at the side of a TV that's displaying abstract medical imagery. Rudolph (Chandler Balli) is playing with an antique horse marionette on the table out of boredom. A closeup of the table, giving a good view of the horse marionette and decorative siamese twin skull alongside the assortment of medical cutouts that are spread across the table. A shot that is framed between Chandler and Brice's heads. The headmaster (Joshua Haire) is behind the podium, a jarred conjoined embryo is by his side. Joshua Haire and Rachel Walker in Intravenus. The two are speaking as the Eve marionette puppet looms behind the two in an open cabinet.
May 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Filming on Intravenus continues. The 21st and 23rd marked two of the three ensemble cast days in filming, tackling a majority of the film’s first act and a sequence for the second act. Alongside returning faces we also see the arrival of the last two primary characters, Rudolph and Comet.
Brice Anthony Heller, Lawson Reis and Chandler Balli as they appear in Intravenus, acting as Hermey, Comet and Rudolph respectively. The three stand in a stairwell facing a derelict industrial doorway. Rachel Walker as Clarice in Intravenus. She is peeking out from behind an open door. Lawson Reis, Chandler Balli, Joshua Haire, Brice Anthony Heller and Rachel Walker in Intravenus in a lineup shot of the full cast. Lawson, Chandler, Brice and Rachel are seated at a long table while Joshua is at a podium directly behind them. Lawson Reis, Chandler Balli, Brice Anthony Heller and Rachel Walker in Intravenus. Lawson and Chandler are staring down the table in Rachel's direction, with Brice seated in the middle.
May 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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This day and the future filming days will highlight the film's underground theater influences, crossing very serious and at certain points deeply discomforting moments with bits of surrealism and absurdism.

A more detailed post about the shoot can be read here:
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Rachel Walker and Brice Anthony Heller as they appear in the film Intravenus, appearing as Clarice and Hermey respectively. Clarice is laying on the classroom's floor, facing up to the ceiling as she speaks to Hermey. Said shot is in black and white. Rachel Walker as she appears in the film Intravenus, appearing as Clarice. She's entering the darkened classroom through a doorway, the light on the other side of the door being the only source of illumination. Said shot is in black and white. Rachel Walker as she appears in the film Intravenus, appearing as Clarice. She is in the dimly lit classroom, stepping back fearfully as an unnaturally lit phantom version of the anatomical diagram puppet materializes in the cabinet. In place of one of its plastic limbs, an unmistakably human arm reaches out to her with the same pair of scissors that Hermey drew from the dissection kit. The framing of the shot highlights how the cabinet is positioned exactly at the center of the Anatomical Venus projection, making the cabinet appear like a sort of doorway into the Anatomical Venus' torso that the puppet emerges from. Said shot is in black and white. An alternate angle of the prior shot, giving further details of the human arm that reaches to Clarice.
April 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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One of the scenes of note was Hermey's Chemical Reaction monologue. Functioning as a somnambulist for most of the film, he briefly 'awakens' to give a grotesquely Artaudian dialogue about the biological nature of his obsessions (my attempt at doing a variant of the theater of cruelty in film form).
An earlier shot of Hermey (Brice Anthony Heller) in the darkened classroom. The Anatomical Venus projection isn't visible on the wall yet. He's holding the anatomical model puppet above him by its throat, striking a dynamic pose in the process. Another shot from the same dimly lit classroom scene with just Hermey (Brice Anthony Heller). He's searching through a kit of dissection tools, drawing out a pair of scissors. A wide angle view of Hermey (Brice Anthony Heller) in the darkened classroom. He's stood at the podium with the puppet in the closet directly behind him. With two surgical tools in hand, he's preparing to strike the jarred fetus like a percussive instrument as he speaks. The Anatomical Venus projection ominously stands overhead. A final screenshot of Hermey's appearance in the darkened classroom scene. He's stood directly in front of the cabinet, both doors of the cabinet swung open as he reaches his arms out to parallel the opened doors. The jarred fetus holds prominence in the foreground.
April 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Filming on Intravenus continues.
March concluded on an intensely active note with our third day of principal photography, four scenes were tackled, three of which featured dialogue that was as intense thematically as it was in length and detail. Editing of the scenes has been ongoing since shooting.
Rachel Walker and Brice Anthony Heller as they appear in the film Intravenus, appearing as Clarice and Hermey respectively. Clarice is seated at a table decorated with macabre pieces of medical ephemera as Hermey stands in the back with a measuring tape. The two are in an antiquated classroom. Said shot is in black and white. Rachel Walker as she appears in the film Intravenus, appearing as Clarice. Her face is barely lit against a darkened background, looking up to an unseen space above her. Said shot is in black and white. Brice Anthony Heller he appears in the film Intravenus, appearing as Hermey. He’s stood in front of a black cabinet in the classroom. The scene is dimly lit. A macabre anatomical diagram puppet is dangling inside the cabinet, its body is vaguely illuminated by the projection of an antique anatomical illustration of an Anatomical Venus, her exposed organs casting strange optical phantoms on the surrounding wall. Said shot is in black and white. Rachel Walker as she appears in the film Intravenus, appearing as Clarice. She is in the dimly lit classroom, searching through a set of papers atop a teacher’s podium. A jarred conjoined fetus is resting on the other side of the podium. The Anatomical Venus projection ominously stands overhead behind her. Said shot is in black and white.
April 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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A photo spread of backstage stills from the original 1984 premiere of the Tokyo Grand Guignol’s Mercuro as it was printed in the rare subculture magazine ZOAR, extracted from an interview the magazine featured between Suehiro Maruo and Norimizu Ameya. Digitized by yours truly.
March 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Screencaps from the recently shot moonlight sequence from Intravenus. Each scene in the film is significant, but the moonlight segment stands out as the sort of seed of the film since the whole basis formed around a dream I had several years back, said dream serves as the basis for this scene.
Rachel Walker and Brice Anthony Heller as they appear in the film Intravenus, appearing as Clarice and Hermey respectively. Clarice is looking up to Hermey (who is nearly offscreen) as they crouch over a stream to watch their own reflection. Clarice is looking up to Hermey, her face being illuminated by the moonlight overhead. The shot is filmed in black and white with a nocturnal green color tint over it. Brice Anthony Heller and Rachel walker as they appear in the film Intravenus, appearing as Hermey and Clarice respectively. The two are standing at the edge of a clearing where a house can be seen faintly in the distance. Hermey has his hand out to prevent Clarice from moving forward, the two are both looking back cautiously. The shot is filmed in black and white with a nocturnal green color tint over it. Joshua Haire as he appears in Intravenus, appearing as the headmaster. The shot is a still frame of a pov shot where he is attacking one of the characters with a cane. The shot is filmed in black and white with a nocturnal green color tint over it. Joshua Haire and Rachel Walker as they appear in the film Intravenus, appearing as the headmaster and Clarice respectively. The headmaster is authoritatively speaking to Clarice as she stands just barely offscreen from the viewer's pov. The two are stood in a dark forest where the moonlight overhead doubles as a spotlight. The shot is filmed in black and white with a nocturnal green color tint over it.
March 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Over 7 minutes of sequencing has already been edited for my newest film project, Intravenus. In one sequence alone, there are an assortment of stylistic jumps from a 70s film-inspired aesthetic to monochrome sequences that reference Dr. Caligari and Eraserhead in visual texture.
Rachel Walker and Brice Anthony Heller as they appear in the film Intravenus, appearing as Clarice and Hermey respectively. The two protagonists are stood in a defensive stance in a hallway that ominously extends past the viewer's point of view. Said shot is in color. Rachel Walker and Brice Anthony Heller as they appear in the film Intravenus, appearing as Clarice and Hermey respectively. Clarice has just gifted Hermey a crudely made paper origami butterfly. The two are in a derelict room where the exposed wooden rafters cast ominous shadows on the walls. Said shot is in black and white. A still taken from a panning shot in Intravenus of the ominous hallways that appear later in the film. The shot is filmed in black and white with a nocturnal green color tint over it. Rachel Walker and Brice Anthony Heller as they appear in the film Intravenus, appearing as Clarice and Hermey respectively. The two are stood at an opened door that looks out onto a void-like space that contrasts with the dark hall space around them. Said shot is in color.
February 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM