Michele Kaasen Rubatino's Reel

My grandfather Hjalmar Carsen (Kaasen) and Victor Steinbrueck were involved in the effort of the many men that built the Seattle Space Needle. My grandfather...

My submission to the Seattle Film Festival 2015. Copyright iUniverse.

Made for "The Wizard of Oz and the Western Cultural Imagination: A Conference celebrating and interrogating 75 years of the MGM Musical" Hosted by the Facult...

"Empires of the Future are the Empires of the Mind." Winston Churchill is the theme this machinima film was made, and for the Eleventh Birthday of Second Lif...

The unveiling of the mysteries to be found in the ancient tale of Solomon's Temple. This video was also an entry to the UWA Sci-Fi Challenge, in the color bl...

Publicity video I made promoting my book. In “The Origin of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” Rubatino provides evidence to show the maps found in the Oz books, 40 of them in all, were derived from drawing blueprints taken from the text of a King James Version Bible dating from around 1611. Ozma is transposed from the character, the Mother Heavenly Jerusalem, she appears in later books so only those that have read the series are familiar with her character.

A karaoke Birthday bash for John captured some amazing vocals! Met some wonderful people in a tiny timber town in Granite Falls, Washington. Witnessing the lovely happy dance of Sophia Perez, I tossed together an animation and added a twist inspired from of course, Dorothy (the gift) from The Wizard of Oz!

My Second Entry for the University of Western Australia Machinima contest, themed "Reflection." I used the Living Bible version of Job chapter 38, because I thought it gives a well written depiction of the laws of reflection. My inspiration for making this is derived from so many seeking to find aliens in outer space, or those that complain about our existence on earth. They are those that are not seeing the miracles of life all around us! So I loved this response to the suffering man Job...

My contest entry for the annual UWA machinima contest. The Origin of Oz mystery maps are focused, in revealing how L. Frank Baum transposed the bible characters into the monsters on that appear on the Great Throne in the book "The Wizard of Oz" (1900). The entire project was done by me, including vocals using a karaoke soundtrack of "In the Dark, by Billy Squier."

Using the tune "In the Dark," by Billy Squier, combined with the imagery of my blueprints as built in 3d in the virtual world of Second Life. These lyrics explain perfectly how this is operating in human psyche. Using clips from "The Wizard of Oz," also showing the origin of the L. Frank Baums discovery and reasoning behind his transposing this literature into his American Fairytale Classic, which is now the most watched movie on earth.