Julian Lauzzana, owner and chief engineer of Primal Digital L.L.C.

Bachelors of Science, Mass Communication, Emerson College, Boston, MA, USA, 1994.
Candidate for Masters in Organizational Management, School for International Training.

1992 to present. Video Editor, Producer and Systems Engineer.

From 1992-1998 I lived, studied and worked in Boston, Massachusetts



1992-1998 Freelance Video Editor
New England Media Productions, David Cort Productions, Smash Productions.
Also worked in print and graphic design (Olsen Images) and advertising (Smash Advertising)
Production assistant for independent films and parabolic boom microphone operater for New England Patriots.

During this time I graduated from Emerson College (1994), ran an art gallery from my loft (ArtScape) and worked as a chef.
I worked at various restaurants including Odyssey Harbor Cruise, Rudi's Resto-Cafe' and Trident Book Store.
The Artscape was open Wednesday nights and Weekends during the day.

One day, David Cort recommended I attend Bob Doyle's Hi-8 user's group.
I became a member and attended many meetings at his Cambridge home near the Harvard campus,
witnessing the "birth of the firewire" and the transition to nonlinear.
I cut film, did linear tape-based editing and used various hybrid systems...
finally working on Media 100 and Avid systems once things stabilized.

At that time I also ran The Artscape from the loft at 100 South Street in Boston's Leather District.
I invited MIT students and video artists to participate in a group show entitled CYBERMAMA.


1998-2005 I lived and worked in New York City.

During this time Primal Digital, LLC was formed as an audio/video production company.
From 2000-2005 Primal Digital Studo was located in a warehouse space in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NYC.

This location had an office, video editing suite, recording studio and performance space.



1998-2000 Systems Engineeer for Novaworks Computer Systems.

I was hired as a full time consultant for Viacom at Paramount Plaze in Times Square, NYC
working for Showtime Networks, The Movie Channel and Sundance Channel.

My core duty was to offer tech support to the video editing suites during night sessions.
In addition, I helped maintain and operate a cutting edge QuickTime Server
which automated time consuming assembly edits and saved lots of time and money.

I also installed, supported and maintained Adobe Premiere systems used by Showtime producers to offline edit.
I often fixed peoples computers while they were at home asleep, which made people happy.
I made dubs in the library and worked with lots of wonderful people.

I learned to excel in my position and to do more than I was asked.
I am very grateful to Dirk van Dall and Bill Aurnhammer who hired me for this position.
I showed up for the interview overdressed in a suit and tie.
At the time I was staying in a cheap hotel in Chelsea called "The Riverview"
looking for work and I knew nobody in NYC.

2001-2005 Animatic Editor for Dora The Explorer, Nickelodeon.

After making the difficult decision to leave the full time night time tech position at Viacom (primarily for Showtime)
I began to dedicate myself to freelance video editing work and starting my own business, Primal Digital, LLC.
At this time I was fortunate enough to know the quirky nature of Adobe Premiere 4.2.1
which was being used at Nickelodeon's brand new show Dora The Explorer.
They were working on the one-hour long pilot and they needed an editor who could deal with the bugs of this system.
The first season was fairly grueling as far as technical problems were concerned.
but working with all parties in Los Angeles and NYC, we began to streamline the process
eventually converting to Final Cut Pro and getting the Animatic editing down to two to three days per show.
I worked for Dora until 2005 when I left NYC to enroll in Graduate School in Vermont.
I am still trying to convince them that I can do this work remotely.
Some Indy Projects:



During 2001-2002 Louisa Achille hired Julian Lauzzana as off-line editor for the documentary film The Naked Feminist that was on-lined in Australia by Rachel Walls.
This film addresses the intersection and conflict between feminism and pornography.




During the summer of 2002, Lauzzana was hired by Amy Hoch
to work on a video installation at The Alice Austen House in Staten Island,
which was a core part of the SITE-ATIONS International Project.
For this project, he filmed, treated and looped miniDV and Super 8mm footage
to help facilitate Hotch's unique artistic vision.


More recently, Lauzzana recorded sound for Amy Hoch's installation
Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells
at The Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine, California.
see http://beallcenter.uci.edu/calendar/mitosis.htm and http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1075
for more information on that show.




One of Julian's current works-in-progress has a working title of "World Market."
Using footage from markets all over the world to explore human interaction
in one of our most important rituals...buying and selling goods.

"World Market" creates a diversity of shopping experiences
with a soundtrack of ambient music mixed with market sounds.
What occurs in these shopping environments is a trance like exploration
into human behavior which works to fuse our differences
in a whirlwind of sonic and visual flavor and smells.
Includes collaboration of Andy Alpern of Golem Productions.