{"id":1288,"date":"2017-08-04T00:39:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T00:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/short-film-captures-the-draculas-overnight-painting-process-during-pow-wow-long-beach\/"},"modified":"2017-08-04T00:39:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T00:39:47","slug":"short-film-captures-the-draculas-overnight-painting-process-during-pow-wow-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/short-film-captures-the-draculas-overnight-painting-process-during-pow-wow-long-beach","title":{"rendered":"Short Film Captures The Draculas\u2019 Overnight Painting Process During Pow! Wow! Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-55253\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-pow-wow-long-beach-the-draculas-16.jpg\" alt=\"2017-pow-wow-long-beach-the-draculas-16\" width=\"620\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Kevin Fickling and Sayer Danforth courtesy of SICKBOAT Creative Studios<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed The Draculas at work during <em><a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/arts-culture\/in-pictures-pow-wow-long-beach-2017\/\">Pow! Wow! Long Beach<\/a><\/em>\u00a0last week, it was probably because you were comfortably asleep.<\/p>\n<p>Most often painting late into the night, the Long Beach-based duo comprised of artists Jeff McMillan and Gary Musgrave avoided the sun to complete not just a mural, but a story worth contemplating.<\/p>\n<p>The monstrous yetis and journeying hikers now apparent on one of Long Beach\u2019s most popular dive bars, the V Room, might stop a passerby or leave a buzzed bar patron puzzled in the parking lot. It\u2019s all about creating more than just a pretty piece of art, one that leaves the viewer with a little more to think about, McMillan said.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Scott Nichols of SICKBOAT Creative Studios captured that idea on camera, filming the illustrators in their natural habitat, as well as interviewing a handful of Pow! Wow! Long Beach organizers in a short film released this week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/226921277\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/226921277\">The Draculas &#8211; POW! WOW! Long Beach (2017)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/sickboat\">Sickboat Creative<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The short seeks to shine a light on how public art is helping to reshape the fabric of the city\u2019s social, cultural and local environment, explained Nichols.<\/p>\n<p>One pleasantly surprising facet of the film involves McMillan and Musgrave magically appearing and disappearing at different points of the mural site. They\u2019re not just painting a wall anymore, but showing up in a way viewers would least expect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to do something unique to play on their characters as The Draculas,\u201d Nichols told the <em>Post<\/em>. \u201cVaporizing in and out of frame as they paint the wall, I thought would not only be a \u2018natural\u2019 element of The Draculas, but an effect that we can continue to build a larger narrative around for future projects. Plus, we truly enjoy pushing our conceptual and technical capabilities on every production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vision for the film was to create a positive narrative about how \u201cwe can shape both the current and future generations of Long Beach,\u201d directly helping the progression of \u201cpublic art as a means of positive change,\u201d Nichols said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-55252\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-pow-wow-long-beach-the-draculas-12.jpg\" alt=\"2017-pow-wow-long-beach-the-draculas-12\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Artist and Cal State Long Beach art professor Gary Musgrave working on the mural.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about SICKBOAT Creative Studios <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/sickboat\">here<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/sickboat.\">.<\/a> For more info on The Draculas, check out their Instagram <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thedraculas\">@thedraculas<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The V Room is located at 918 East 4th Street.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>{FG_GEOMAP [33.771579,-118.1807991] FG_GEOMAP}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4If you missed The Draculas at work during\u00a0<em><a href=\"life\/arts-culture\/2000011233-in-pictures-pow-wow-long-beach-2017\">Pow! 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