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Taylor has made movies since he was 8 years old, when he began using a borrowed Super-8 camera to make weird stop-motion and confusing dark fantasy films with his friends.
As an adult, he has composed & produced music for moving pictures for over 20 years, scoring dozens of major national & international television advertising campaigns along the way as well as composing music for short films, art installations, documentaries such as “No Maps for These Territories” (2000, dir. Mark Neale), and contributing to feature films such as 'The Rules of Attraction' (2002, dir. Roger Avary), 'Arlington Road' (1999, dir. Mark Pellington), and 'Sorry, Haters' (2006, dir. Jeff Stanzler)
Promotional video for IMPLEMENT, a regional zine covering local food supply chains from farms to families and schools in the Champlain Valley Region of Essex County, NY in the Adirondacks.
In 2018, Taylor made “Invocation” (from the album ‘Solo Solstice’), which won
Best Music Video at the 2019 Amsterdam International Film Festival:
EARTH TRACKING SESSIONS (2017): spontaneous music, performed on a modular synthesizer system, inspired by filming natural happenings…impressions, shot in one day and recorded in one take:
Taylor wrote the screenplay, co-directed, edited & produced Spot (The Professional) which won Best Original Short Film (comedy) in The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival in 2003.