Mae Horak
About Me
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I am a writer, musician and creative technologist. and my work combines sound, video and technology to tell stories.
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The stories I tell take place in heightened realities and I always aim to highlight the ambiguous and emphasise the absurd.
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In 2020 I co-founded an all female production company called Off Hand Co. My current undertaking is "Bat Country", a psychedelic horror film that I wrote inspired by the writing of Hunter S. Thompson. It was filmed in September in Boston, Massachusetts and is currently in post production. I am editing and scoring the film.
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Please check out my github for coding samples, and the Off Hand Co. Website for filmmaking.
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Creative CV/Qualifications
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Graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2018 with a major in Fashion Design.
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Worked professionally in the fashion/costume industry for 8 years including running a business creating custom clothing from 2013-2020. Specialised in couture techniques and tailoring.
Completed Harvard Extension's CS50 Intensive Computer Programming class in 2021.
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Worked as the "Digital Experience Specialist" at Richline Digital in Boston, Massachusetts from 2017-2022. Duties included web design/development.
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Photography and fashion work featured in US and French editorial magazines and in films and movies including TV show "Supernatural" and award-winning (for costumes) short film "Eve".
Certified by the Mayor's Office of Boston, MA as a fine artist.
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Couture collections featured in Boston Fashion Week.
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Best known for multimedia project 'The Taiga', a 4 year effort that culminated in a hardcover book, solo gallery/fashion show and a video trailer. The Taiga Gallery can be seen here.
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Founded Off Hand Co. in 2020 with collaborators Lena Vani and Jacqueline Bell. Released three microshorts "Works For Me"(cinematographer, editor), "BRB"(writer, actor, editor) and "Ophelia"(director, cinematographer, editor) with plans to release "Roll Tide"(writer, actor, editor) and "Bat Country"(writer, actor, editor, score).
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