Andrew Gingerich

Filmmaker/Educator

About

Andrew Gin­gerich is a film­mak­er whose work explores notions of fam­i­ly, dis­so­ci­at­ed iden­ti­ties, region­al alle­giances, and the bound­aries of fic­tion. He lives and teach­es in Michi­gan’s Upper Peninsula.

Student Work Samples

Student Work Samples

Internal Frequency

  • Nar­ra­tive short
  • 15 min­utes
  • 8K dig­i­tal cinema
  • Col­or
  • Direct­ed by Luke Tschumper­lin
  • Writ­ten & Edit­ed by Jake Lenderink
  • Institution/​Program: North­ern Michi­gan Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege of Art and Design – Dig­i­tal Cinema
  • Class: AD 412A Dig­i­tal Cin­e­ma: Production
  • Assign­ment: Col­lab­o­ra­tive production

This film was made as a col­lab­o­ra­tive project by my AD 412A Dig­i­tal Cin­e­ma: Pro­duc­tion stu­dents at North­ern Michi­gan Uni­ver­si­ty in the Win­ter 2023 semes­ter. Each stu­dent wrote a screen­play, then vot­ed on one project to pro­duce. Stu­dents planned the pro­duc­tion, sched­uled the shoots, and filled all pro­duc­tion and post-pro­duc­tion roles.

Camera

  • Non­fic­tion short
  • 2 min­utes
  • HD video
  • Col­or
  • Writ­ten, Direct­ed & Edit­ed by Quille Ron­ning
  • Institution/​Program: North­ern Michi­gan Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege of Art and Design – Dig­i­tal Cinema
  • Class: AD 112 Dig­i­tal Cin­e­ma: Foundations
  • Assign­ment: Voiceover-based film

The prompt for this assign­ment was to con­struct a short film around a piece of voiceover. Quille’s project is delight­ful­ly con­ver­sa­tion­al, and makes excel­lent, sub­tle use of ambi­ent sound record­ings to enliv­en our encoun­ters with his still photos.

Sunday

  • Fic­tion short
  • 2 min­utes
  • HD video
  • Col­or
  • Writ­ten, Direct­ed & Edit­ed by Aila Wey­ck­er
  • Institution/​Program: North­ern Michi­gan Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege of Art and Design – Dig­i­tal Cinema
  • Class: AD 112 Dig­i­tal Cin­e­ma: Foundations
  • Assign­ment: Voiceover-based film

This film by Aila Wey­ck­er, also made for the voiceover assign­ment, injects diegetic nar­ra­tion into a charm­ing lit­tle mum­blecore piece about friends, fam­i­ly, and exis­ten­tial con­fu­sion. The struc­tur­ing of this piece is so clever, and its per­for­mances and writ­ing so hon­est, that I just keep com­ing back to it.

All That is Beautiful

  • Non­fic­tion short
  • 3 min­utes
  • HD Video
  • Col­or
  • Writ­ten, Direct­ed & Edit­ed by Riley Pori­er
  • Institution/​Program: North­ern Michi­gan Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege of Art and Design – Dig­i­tal Cinema
  • Class: AD 112 Dig­i­tal Cin­e­ma: Foundations
  • Assign­ment: Mon­tage-based film

Riley Pori­er made this film for a unit on mon­tage, explor­ing Pudovk­in’s con­cept of par­al­lelism through­out this arrest­ing doc­u­men­tary about the cre­ative impulse.