Cy Kuckenbaker

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Cy Kuckenbaker
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Years active2000–present
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  • Tiger Oak + Echo
  • Bush League
  • The Potato Eater
Awards2004 Fulbright Fellowship recipient

Cy Kuckenbaker is an American filmmaker, video artist and professor known for Tiger Oak + Echo (2018), Bush League (2010), The Potato Eater (2003) and his viral "time collapse" edits of planes and traffic in San Diego.

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Life and career

Kuckenbaker is from Alaska and briefly attended college in South Dakota. [1] He moved to Hillcrest in 1993, [2] and graduated from San Diego State University in 1998. [3] Kuckenbaker made the film Tiger Oak + Echo [4] after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kupiškis, Lithuania from 2000-2002. [2] He was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 2004 and received a Master of Fine Arts at California Institute of the Arts in 2006. [5] Kuckenbaker has been a professor at San Diego City College since 2010. [3] [4]

In 2013, Kuckenbaker partnered with the Museum of Photographic Arts through the Creative Catalyst Grant from the San Diego Foundation to produce a series of videos [6] stemming off his viral content and creative edits of traffic, planes and everyday life in San Diego. [7] After relocating near San Diego International Airport, [8] he said the planes were recorded on Black Friday, November 23, 2012, between 10:30am and 3pm, following inspiration from a composite photo at Hannover Airport by Ho-Yeol Ryu. [9] [10] Kuckenbaker said it took approximately 2 hours of editing for every 1 second of finished video rendering [11] and that he had to composite additional time lapse footage over the render to give the illusion that time was passing. [12] He recorded 462 cars over 4 minutes from the Washington Street bridge overlooking SR-163 on October 1, 2013. [13]

Filmography

YearTitleNotes
2003The Potato Eater [3]
2010Bush League [3]
2018Tiger Oak + Echo [4]
List of awards and nominations
Accolades
EventYearAwardTitleResultRef.
GI Film Festival San Diego 2021Local Film Showcase – Best ShortTiger Oak + EchoNominated [4]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Sitton, Drew (2021-05-07). "Hillcrest filmmaker brings little-known Cold War history to the silver screen". San Diego News. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Akhgarnia, Golda (2011-02-19). "NewsCenter | SDSU | Out of Africa". San Diego State University . Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "City College professor showcases film during local festival". San Diego Community College District . 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  5. ↑ "Time Collapse: A Filmmaker's Mesmerizing Twist on Time-Lapse". TwistedSifter. 2019-08-15. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  6. ↑ "Art Lab: Cy Kuckenbaker". Museum of Photographic Arts . 2014-01-16. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  7. ↑ Wagner, David (2014-05-20). "Video Artist Cy Kuckenbaker Cuts Up Everyday Scenes Of San Diego". KPBS Public Media . Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  8. ↑ Mutzabaugh, Ben (2012-12-03). "Video gem: Five hours of planes landing in 25 seconds". USA Today . Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  9. ↑ "This is what we call extreme air traffic control". Cheapflights . 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  10. ↑ Zhang, Michael (2012-12-01). "Five Hours of Airplane Landings Captured in Thirty Seconds". PetaPixel. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  11. ↑ Halliday, Ayun (2019-08-19). "Cy Kuckenbaker's Time Collapse Videos Let You See Daily Life As You've Never Seen It Before | Open Culture". Open Culture. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  12. ↑ Hall, Matthew T. (2012-12-04). "Watch this: 70 planes, 4 hours in 25 seconds". San Diego Union-Tribune . Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  13. ↑ Hall, Matthew T. (2013-12-17). "Watch: 462 color-coded cars cruise SR-163 in 90 seconds". San Diego Union-Tribune . Retrieved 2023-05-09.
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