Winner: Best Editing, New Jersey Film Awards, New Jersey, USA, January 2023 • Winner: Best Music Video, Stockholm City Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, September 11, 2022 • Bimonthly Winner: Best Experimental Film, Monza Film Fest, Monza, Italy, Nov/Dec 2022 • Honorable Mention: Nassau Film Awards, Princeton, NJ, 2023 • Official Selection: Liverpool Indie Awards, Liverpool, UK, March, 2023 • Official Selection: Kalakari Film Fest, Devas, India, 2023 • Finalist: Music Video, Art Film Awards, Skopje, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, December 1, 2022 • Honorable Mention: Music Video, Eastern Europe Film Festival, Craiova, Romania, December 1, 2022 • Honorable Mention, Paris Film Awards, Paris, France, December 31, 2022 • Official Selection, Wisdom Tree International Film Festival, Pune, India, January 20, 2023

Starring Sofia Baliakhova. Directed by John Soares & Jeff Mellin. Written, Animated, & Edited by Jeff Mellin. Photographed by John Soares. On-Carousel photographs by Sofia Baliakhova. Photographed at the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA, October 25, 2011. Horse motion animations based on Eadweard Muybridge's "Tranverse-Gallop" photograph series, 1887.

Video for a track from Three On A Match, a conceptual album comprised of songs inspired by the titles of Bette Davis films (but not necessarily the films). This particular song has little to do with the associated film, and is instead a meditation on memory, regret, and perception of time. The video expands on that idea, considering the limitations of memory, the isolation of art, and the possibilities of renewal in experiencing the present.

Honorable Mention: 4th Annual New York City Independent Film Festival, New York City, United States, October 19, 2013

From wiaiwya’s 7777777 series.Download the song at wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/track/dont-go-crazy-before-i-do

Written by Jeff Mellin (© Sweet Red Onion Publishing, BMI)

Jeff Mellin – Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar • Jenny Dee – Lead Vocal • Abbie Barrett – Background Vocals • Tim Gearan – Rickenbacker 12-String Guita • Ed Valauskas – Bass, Tremolo Guitar, Background Vocals • Andy Plaisted – Drums • Phil Aiken – Piano, Farfisa Organ • Eric Salt - Percussion, Piano

Produced by Ed ValauskasRecorded and Mixed by Jon Lupfer. Assisted by Sean Cahalin

Recorded at Q Division Studios, Somerville, MA

Video by John Soares (photography) & Jeff Mellin (editing)

*** Official Selection Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2012 ***

Fantasy about the memories sewn into the fabric of a worse-for-the-wear cotillion gown. Features the aerial acrobatics of Xan Kaplan, choreographed to the song 'The Shabby Dress' performed by Jeff Mellin. For "Chorus Vs. Solos: A Tribute to Charlie Chesterman," an album benefiting American singer-songwriter Charlie Chesterman, who is battling cancer.

Notes on the song: "Scruffy the Cat was, basically, the band my high school garage band wanted to be. So you can imagine how I felt when I first met Charlie way back in the early ‘90s. He was friendly, disarming, genuinely interested, and even kind enough to give me some positive (and honest) feedback on the recordings The Eddies were working on at the time. And if that wasn’t thrill enough, he then sent me the rough mixes of what would become ‘From The Book of Flames’ and asked me (me!) for my (my!) feedback. This was of course long before emails and mp3s and comments-on-a-link, and it meant something. It was a generous, outstretched hand. I’ve still got the hand-scrawled note and cassette with scribbled label somewhere.

I’m sure I tried to play it cool (and probably even responded with some dumb suggestions), but the fact of the matter is that his tape was great, and it was clear that songs like “The Shabby Dress” were classics-to-be, and I couldn’t believe I was lucky enough to hear them before everyone else.

Since then, I’ve been luckier still to play on bills with him, share space on vinyl with him, work on the artwork for his records, and, on occasion, borrow his band. And more than once, he’s agreed to participate in our hare-brained schemes.

Thank you Charlie. Get well soon." --Jeff Mellin

credits

Xan Kaplan: Aerial choreography and acrobatics
Eric Deeble: Key Trapeze & Silk Rigging Grip
Michele Lempa: Location Scout, Casting, Trapeze & Silk Rigging Grip
Henry Siem: Assistant Trapeze & Silk Rigging Grip
Costume consultation: Yvonne McCarey, Karin Tyburczy
Assisting Editor/Director: John Soares
Produced by Yvonne McCarey & Jeff Mellin
Written, Photographed, Edited, & Directed by Jeff Mellin

from Chorus vs. Solos: A Tribute to Charlie Chesterman, track released 01 December 2011
Written by Charles E. Chesterman (Big Sloppy Kiss Music, BMI)

Recorded and performed by Jeff Mellin
jeffmellin.bandcamp.com

* Official Selection: 4th Annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival *
* Official Selection: 3rd Annual New York City Independent Film Festival*

Starring Niki Luparelli.

From the album "Three On A Match" by Carlill, Mellin & Toad on Stereorrific Recordings.

Directed by Jeff Mellin & John Soares. A Soamel Pictures Release.

By John Soares (johnsoares.com) & Jeff Mellin (jeffmellin.com). Starring Sofia Baliakhova as the Elf, Joe Doherty as Santa. Lori Arnold: Card wrangling and general assistance; Direction & Photography: John Soares; Direction & Editing: Jeff Mellin.

“Every Year” written & performed by Jeff Mellin (Sweet Red Onion Publishing BMI) from the holiday album “Christmastime, Approximately: Transatlantic Pop Christmas, Vol. 2” available from Where It’s At Is Where You Are (wiaiwya.com).

Thanks to: Joanne Caggiano, Steven Caggiano, Angela & Tori Caggiano, John Jervis, Kara Mears, Yvonne McCarey, Susan Soares, Ziza & Racer Soares.

©MMX 2010 John Soares & Jeff Mellin. All rights reserved. Full Stereorrific Quality. Apologies to D.A. Pennebaker & Bob Dylan.

CHRISTMASTIME, APPROXIMATELY features tracks by Action Biker • Betty and the Werewolves • The Birthday Girl vs. Alexander’s Festival Hall • DJ Downfall • The Ei8ht • Eux Autres • Hexicon • Hillary and the Democrats • The Hillfields • Hong Kong in the 60s • Howard Hughes & David Tattersall • Jeff Mellin • The Social Interaction Foundation (aka Help Stamp Out Loneliness) • Sool • The Understudies • The Vatican Cellars • Gregory Webster • The Weisstronauts • The Werewandas • World of Fox

Written & Directed by John Soares & Jeff Mellin. Starring Lindsay Lee Chase.

Song performed by Jeff Mellin
w/ John Clarke (Sool, Legendary Motorbikes)
Joel Mellin (Miss Mary, the Oscillators)
Doug Yule (Red Dog, Velvet Underground)
& featuring Stephanie Goodman & Helen King of Shrag.
Produced by Jeff with Pete Weiss & Joel Mellin.

From wiaiwya 7777777 series.

Video from the EP "Love Is Made Of Sky," from Stereorrific Recordings. Song performed by Jeff Mellin with John Clarke (Sool, Legendary Motorbikes), Joel Mellin (Miss Mary, the Oscillators) & Doug Yule (Red Dog, Velvet Underground), and featuring Nichole Ferree (Orange Nichole). Produced by Jeff with Pete Weiss & Joel Mellin.