Awards
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Special Recognition
Best Editing Award Honorable Mention Best Film Award Best Screenplay Award Jury Prize |
East Village Queer Film Festival 2018
Oxford Film Festival 2017 for BREAKFAST TeaDance Film Festival 2017 for BREAKFAST Third Eye Film Festival 2016 for BREAKFAST Mirror Mountain Film Festival 2016 for BREAKFAST Queer Bits Fall Festival III 2016 for BREAKFAST |
Even If I Know (music video, 2020)
"...Mesmerizing video..."
-Turtlenek [article]
"...Drinker has unveiled the black-and-white 'Even If I Know' video that incorporates Brutalist architecture
and stop-motion animation that’ll make you appreciate art at a deeper level."
-The Hidden Hits [article]
"An added bonus for today is the song’s mesmerizing new music video. It’s stunning."
-Vehlinggo [article]
"The video opens onto a symbolic, geometric, robotic, post-human wasteland…like a glimpse into a potential future
out of our sci-fi nightmares. An ever expanding, consuming concrete jungle, all in black & white. It’s terrifying,
yet the relentless (heart)beat makes it almost a peaceful descent into madness.
-Mundane Mag [article]
-Turtlenek [article]
"...Drinker has unveiled the black-and-white 'Even If I Know' video that incorporates Brutalist architecture
and stop-motion animation that’ll make you appreciate art at a deeper level."
-The Hidden Hits [article]
"An added bonus for today is the song’s mesmerizing new music video. It’s stunning."
-Vehlinggo [article]
"The video opens onto a symbolic, geometric, robotic, post-human wasteland…like a glimpse into a potential future
out of our sci-fi nightmares. An ever expanding, consuming concrete jungle, all in black & white. It’s terrifying,
yet the relentless (heart)beat makes it almost a peaceful descent into madness.
-Mundane Mag [article]
Something I Want (music video, 2019)
"The video, directed by Tyler Byrnes, also ties in this theme of addiction and consumerism. In flashing disjointed images and using stop-motion animation, the video for 'Something I Want' gives the perfect imagery."
-Earmilk [article]
-Earmilk [article]
"The music comes equipped with some surreal visuals directed by Tyler Byrnes, a cut 'n' paste clip that utilities found footage and stop motion animation. A multigenerational story of consumerism that feels reminiscent of the work of Adam Curtis, it's both hypnotic and terrifying.
-Clash Music [article]
-Clash Music [article]
"[Drinker's] latest song 'Something I Want' finds them in a more experimental mood with sparse beats and glitchy, 8-bit synths. The song is enjoyed best together with the artful video clip that delivers perfectly matching visuals."
-Glamglare [article]
-Glamglare [article]
BREAKFAST (short film, 2016)
"[A] delightfully strange look at one gay man’s eating disorder... depicted through a surreal lens that calls to mind the works of David Lynch and David Cronenberg. [The] film transcends reality into something unsettling and horrific. An engaging and unnerving ten minutes."
-Metroweekly [article]
"[BREAKFAST is] the most well-rounded and elegantly done of all the films on this issue that we’ve seen. It resonated with everyone.”
-Honeysuckle Magazine [article]
-Metroweekly [article]
"[BREAKFAST is] the most well-rounded and elegantly done of all the films on this issue that we’ve seen. It resonated with everyone.”
-Honeysuckle Magazine [article]
Adolescents (short film, 2014)
"There’s a scene in recent graduate Tyler Byrnes’ Adolescents where a son tells his mother he’s only going to prom if a boy accompanies him. The scene is powerful and gritty in all the ways that a studio film rarely is. There’s no swelling orchestra or multi camera close-ups. All that makes the film is a conversation, a hard one, acted and written so beautifully."
-The Huffington Post [article]
"While Byrnes said he considers the scenarios in [Adolescents] similar to ones he’s experienced, he gave the actors authorship over their characters, which allowed them to craft their own interpretations.
Miles G. Jackson, who plays the son, Alex, in the film, said it was interesting to shoot something autobiographical. “There is a sort of fragility there; while the specific circumstances are Tyler’s, I have those too,” Jackson said.
Byrnes said he used the same actors to portray their characters at two very different ages, to create visual representations of their emotional ages after they endure a tragedy. “Alex must grow up to deal with the complexity of the situation, while Deborah (the mother) is pulled back into an uncertain age, her support structures crumbled before her,” he said.
-The East Aurora Advertiser [article]
-The Huffington Post [article]
"While Byrnes said he considers the scenarios in [Adolescents] similar to ones he’s experienced, he gave the actors authorship over their characters, which allowed them to craft their own interpretations.
Miles G. Jackson, who plays the son, Alex, in the film, said it was interesting to shoot something autobiographical. “There is a sort of fragility there; while the specific circumstances are Tyler’s, I have those too,” Jackson said.
Byrnes said he used the same actors to portray their characters at two very different ages, to create visual representations of their emotional ages after they endure a tragedy. “Alex must grow up to deal with the complexity of the situation, while Deborah (the mother) is pulled back into an uncertain age, her support structures crumbled before her,” he said.
-The East Aurora Advertiser [article]
Missed (short film, 2013)
"Byrnes landed as a finalist in the film festival with five-minute film called Missed about a woman painting over wallpaper fitting for a newborns room telling the story of a couple who experienced the toll of a miscarriage. “Sometimes things get in the way, sometimes you can’t complete them,” surmised Byrnes. Given his submission, it was clear that months of effort had been dedicated towards the delicate details such as lighting, directing, and content."
-The Banner Newspaper [article]
-The Banner Newspaper [article]
