Director Kyle Davison has signed with Sparks Productions, Toronto and Oil Factory, Los Angeles for commercial and music video representation.

Davison caught the attention of many with his effects-heavy sci-fi sexuality short film, The Venus Pussytrap. In the short, two vixens are attempting to pass off a briefcase when a counterintelligence agent armed with target vector-equipped shades and an Afro grabs it and makes a run for it. The two females pursue and the thief is pulled into some very thinly veiled wet-dream sequences before he is downed with a blow gun needle. The film played on Ifilm.com and drew upwards of 90,000 views (it can also be viewed at www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom.) Davison says the short film was intended as a calling card.

"I wanted to do something where I could really get into the effects and into the moment; the initial thing was to overabuse effects in a cool way," says Davison, who learned the tricks of the trade at Command Post Toybox, Vancouver. He says his overuse of fast/slow and 360 degrees slow motion was at least partially a tongue-in-cheek poke at effects for the sake of effects.

"It was really about coming up with something in the three-ish minute range and get it out to people in the spot world," says Davison. "Ifilm has had maybe 90,000 views now. Since they don't accept film, porn, home movies or spec commercials and this film is all of those, I slipped in their logo coming out of the briefcase when it's opened."

Davison, 25, went on to shoot three spec spots for curmudgeonly soft drink, Jones Soda. He elected to shoot the spots around Jones because they didn't have a pre-existing campaign that would flavor the opinions of those who saw his spec work. In one spot, a loudmouthed but strangely charismatic man with unusual hair pressures pedestrians into a Coke vs. Pepsi taste test before feeding them the Jones product. Another spot picks up where this one left off, the boom mike operated by a fairly moronic technician.

The third spot was shot on 35mm and features a nerdy man and a beautiful woman sharing a bench and eating their lunches. Suddenly, football shoulder pads and a helmet are thrown at the nerd, interrupting his goo-goo eyed reverie. He puts it on just in time to be shielded from a barrage of soda cans which explode in a mire of fizz around him. When the cans stop their descent, the soaking man looks at the shocked girl, who then receives her own shoulder pads and helmet. Another appearance by the smoking Jones Soda representative ends the spot.

"For Jones, I was going for dirty, I mean in the look. I couldn't shoot it all on 35 mm. Venus Pussytrap was all slick and smooth so I could afford to put something on the reel to get allupinyaface," says the director, resorting to Ebonics. "I used a really old hi-8 camera and it looks absolutely awful, and through my post connections I fixed it up and it came out looking crazy. I made it look so bad it's good."

Despite his youth, the Canadian director has already had a career in film, post and sound including a stint scoring commercials in Hong Kong. While in the Far East, he also had his first script, Slow Fade produced by a local production company. He then returned to Vancouver where he directed his own second script A Good Burn, before deciding to put together Pussytrap and the spec spots. This work was strong enough that Sparks and Oil Factory decided to sign Davison in their respective markets, while AMG signed him for feature projects.

His work has a hand-made feel but looks deceptively expensive," says Billy Poveda, exec producer at the Oil Factory. "I just like his voice; it's blunt and I like that. You can't put a price tag on it because it is just fun to watch. I think his talents will really be as a filmmaker. He didn't just do these pieces and expect stuff to happen; he's already prepping another short because he's got to exercise his filmmaking whether he has a job or not."

For his part, Davison says he wants to test his skills in both commercials and the often-dicey rap video world.

"I want to do a slew of innovate commercials and maybe get some hip-hop, non-gangsta videos. I'd love to have some hand in changing up the big fat boobs and hips in rap videos," says Davison. "In terms of sexuality, I like taking the piss out of it or making it cooler. I'd love to be able to stamp as much of that on my stuff as possible. There is no dumping champagne down bikini tops without a reason to do it. But I like anything that is funny, has a really slick fluidness, happening effects and humor."

Contact:

http://www.sparksproductions.com

http://www.oilfactory.com