Apairus Company

06/21/2022

Great shoot with and in Idaho this last week. Made lots of pretty pictures together ❤️

04/14/2022

comin atcha!

04/13/2022

We love nothing more than working with a client who likes to take risks and be bold with a project. going all out on this one!
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04/12/2022

Byrna: Less-Lethal Self-Defense Has a New Hero

New work out today for Byrna.

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Be PREPARED TO DEFEND with the devastating power of Tito Ortiz everywhere you go.

02/19/2022

I make some weird faces when directing. Wild one that almost got rained out. At least we didn’t have to manually wet down after the storm :)

02/11/2022

Quick and dirty. Our travel kit gets more dialed in by the shoot. 2 days of flights for 2 hour pre light, 45 minute shoot, 1 hour tear down. First time out to Charleston as well. Ready to get back on the road this weekend to LA for another.

10/29/2021

Great shoot with for DAT Freight and Analytics.
You’d think finding a place to pull U turns with a big rig would be tough, but our boy Eddie came through hard.

10/23/2021

:30 ALT cut for one of the four Bashas’ commercials we did.

Great team, crazy shoot, good times!

10/20/2021

Cool project I had the privilege working on with .herelle and

Was nice stepping outside of the traditional medical shoots for one like this. Super pumped how it all turned out!

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10/10/2021

New work floating through the AZ tv waves as well as digital. These are stills from a commercial campaign for that were super happy with. and coming together to make an ambitious shoot happen in only a few days with a lot of content. Let us know if you catch it on tv in Arizona. Thank you to all of the crew on this one, and your hustle to make it happen!

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09/19/2021

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09/17/2021

New work released today for

This project was written almost 2 years ago and finally came together and into production in February 2021.

USPS not only lost the super 8 camera I ordered for this project, but 20 rolls of film that were to be delivered several days before the shoot. Ended up driving through LA to pick up film and made our way to Arizona. The camera I borrowed for the shoot couldn’t turn the modern film at a consistent frame rate or for very long so I was only able to shoot 5-10 seconds at a time. It felt like it was all going to fall apart.

I immediately got the film processed and scanned, and to my relief I had plenty of performance to work with even though off speed inconsistent frame rate was going to be a nightmare to sync.

Months later the narrative came together and then I ordered 50 rolls of mystery family film on eBay. Luckily there was gold on the rolls and it all came together!

Thanks to my few crew/cast members who were a part of making this possible!

Production - Apairus Company
Director/DP/Edit - Bret Kalmbach
Gaffer/Grips - Sean Conley, Mike Rea
Hair/Mua - Ariel Stafford, Linda Wong
Production Coordinator - Carol Kalmbach
Talent - Savannah Jones, Jeff Brosy, Sophia LaVonne, Justin Allen

THE SONG
Written, produced, and performed by Simply Three
Mixed by Jesse String
Mastered by Nathan James

04/11/2021

New work for Essentia Herbs coming together. Always great when a conventional brand spot turns into something more special than you could’ve imagined.
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03/03/2021

APAIRUS COMPANY - RENTALS

Be sure to check out our new 1 ton grip and electric van package at Apairus.com/rentals

Best deal in town and filled with all sorts of goodies!

DIGITAL FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY AND GEAR RENTAL HOUSE BASED IN PORTLAND OREGON

02/12/2021

Circling back on a project I shot and directed from awhile back for to edit my Directors cut version between shoots. This one still has some great frames for sure!

02/12/2021

Frames from the spot I directed and shot for
This was a great team to work with and really happy with the result. Shot on C500ii with A set lenses. Feel free to reach out with any questions about the spot.

09/27/2020

Week 3 of 4. Getting close to wrapping up our feature here in Oregon. Had to put the ole 70-200 for some snap zooms on a very windy day here.

06/17/2020

Bts from our 10 day Idaho shoot we just wrapped on. I drove our new g&e trailer kit up and back and it was amazing having everything I could want on a shoot like this. Amazing team, amazing shoot, can’t wait for part 2 in August!
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@ Boise, Idaho

04/21/2020

Timeline photos

Watch the crazy antics play out for this aimless woman on May 5th! Support Raising Buchanan by pre-ordering today! ➡️ https://apple.co/2wL3IrQ

04/17/2020

Finally, the moment we’ve been waiting for. Raising Buchanan - now available to preorder on iTunes!

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04/17/2020

It seems likely a dead guy from the 1860’s wouldn’t catch on to today’s sarcasm.

Raising Buchanan is now available for preorder on iTunes!
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04/08/2020

New work released today for August Burns Red. Great work team!

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04/07/2020

August Burns Red - Bones (Official Music Video)

New work released today for August Burns Red. Enjoy!

Produced by APAIRUS COMPANY
Directed by Dan Fusselman & Bret Kalmbach
Director of Photography Bret Kalmbach
Editor / VFX Dan Fusselman
1st AC Drake Dewar
Grip Tyler Kelch
3D Printer Tech Josh Lambeth
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Mr. Bones Joey Jepson and Nicholette

August Burns Red - Bones Listen/Download the album 'Guardians': http://found.ee/guardians Merch – http://found.ee/guardians_merch iTunes – http://found.ee/gu...

02/17/2020

Grip and electric crew or production assistants available 2/18 and 2/19

02/12/2020

August Burns Red - Defender (Official Music Video)

Team killed it on this one! ENJOY!
the magician bringing this comic book to life on the screen!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48L67oBBvHQ

August Burns Red - Defender From the album Guardians - Available April 3, 2020 Pre-order at http://found.ee/guardians iTunes – http://found.ee/guardians_it A...

02/07/2020

Shout out to my whole team on this one. Especially the magician bringing this comic book to life on the screen!
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11/02/2019

Now you see me now you don’t. Another set of stills I grabbed but forgot to post when we launched the video. brought her a game on this one along with the rest on the crew. Thanks to my co pilot for the long hours and creative love!
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09/24/2019

New video we did for up on YouTube. and headed up to northern AZ and into the sticks and came back with this one. ENJOY!
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@ Happy Jack, Arizona

09/06/2019

THE DEADBEAT COUSINS - SLOW DOWN

Another one in the wild! “Slow Down” by The Deadbeat Cousins. Enjoy!

https://vimeo.com/353172217

PROD. APAIRUS COMPANY DIR. BRET KALMBACH/DAN FUSSELMAN DP. BRET KALMBACH EDIT. DAN…

09/06/2019

releasing their new video “Slow Down” today that we created for them. This is about as crafty as you can get on a shoot. Recycled sets from previous shoots and a grip and electric package “handheld 1200 lumen flashlights” from Walmart + haze, photo strobes and polaroids. All in all it was a success I must say!
Thanks to my sidekick for sticking this one out and our massive crew aka and for not dying in the heat. Check out Slow Down at Vimeo.com/Apairus or the Deadbeat Cousins YouTube channel
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@ Pirate Creative Compound

08/31/2019

Now U See Me Now U Don't - Tatum Lynn (Original)

New work of ours released yesterday! Take a peek.

https://youtu.be/0b9sHlgDz5k

Like, Share, Subscribe and get the song in iTunes! Spotify & others coming soon. https://smarturl.it/h2251b ALBUM RELEASE SEPTEMBER 27 Facebook: http://faceb...

08/30/2019

Now you see me now you don’t. brought her a game on this one along with the rest on the crew. Thanks to my co pilot and for the Choreo love!
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08/19/2019

Working our 2x’ers again for and her upcoming video we will be dropping soon! Excited to share this one. Was quite the project!
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07/24/2019

More stills from and our new video Later Baby, XO.

The audience aspect of the video was something we were really excited to shoot but worried about actually accomplishing. We had the main portion of the video shot, had shipped out our film to have it processed and shipped back, and we’re dying to start the edit due to our approaching deadline. We really needed all of the elements of the video to begin the edit so we had to put this portion of the shoot together in about a day. We reached out to and they got us set up with some great talent last minute. After that the concern was locations. Good ole networking and Facebook came through hard on this. Our b cam op/AC put us in touch with and they let us come in that day to scout. The next day we shot it all, luckily getting a twofer at thunderbird with the bar and living room backdrop. Our super 8 film landed that day while we were shooting and the following day the edit began with basically one week on the clock to edit. Thanks to my boy for collaborating both on set and in front of the monitor!

07/22/2019

Here’s a labor of love, blood, sweat, and teary sleepy eyes from all night writing/eding sessions. 😉

Client came to us with the track on a Saturday, script/concept approved the following day, and shot the video 4 days later. Concept to completion in under 3 weeks time with 2 different shoot days on both film and digital. What a ride!

Goes to show you if you have the right team anything can be accomplished. Look for your name in the credits you wonderful people 🙂

Feel free to ask any questions and enjoy!

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