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EIFF2013: Returning Home

I was recently having a conversation with a filmmaker friend of mine. We were talking about three of the new film projects I’m currently working on. As we discussed each project in turn, there was something almost circular about our conversation: each time I mentioned my producers (different for each project), my friend would interject [...]

Featured Notes

WALL: Shoestring

In his single shot, tracking promo for WALL’s Shoestring, Oscar Hudson takes the message corruption inherent in a game of Chinese whispers and turns it on its head; instead distorting the appearance of the messengers as the whisper passes from ear to ear. We asked Hudson to give us the straight story behind the video’s [...]

Superplus Capture the ‘Soul of Design’ for 13&9

After coming across the intersection of living canvas and geometric light show to promote Austrian design label 13&9 earlier this month, we asked the folks over at Superplus to give us a peak into how they went about creating the abstract piece. “The video is part of an overall concept for 13&9 design that revolves [...]

TheyAreAnimators #12: Kristian Andrews

The first time I ever saw the work of Kristian Andrews, I was struck by how his short films Rabbit Punch and Bald Dad made me instantly drift away to my own childhood memories. His autobiographical films, created whilst studying at the Royal College of Art, feel like the embodiment of British childhood for someone [...]

Asides

• It's been far too long a wait to see what visual delights Die Antwoord would drop on us next and believe it or not, the Yolandi Visser fronted Cookie Thumper is their tamest promo yet. Yeah right! Ninja directs and Yolandi... well you probably don't want to watch this in the office. #
• Waveforms modulate into sexy, high octane action in Do I Wanna Know?, David Wilson's animated promo for Arctic Monkeys. #
• You've probably already heard about Google's latest moonshot, Project Loon but if you haven't yet seen the ridiculously creative use of string explanation directed by Google Creative Lab through Mixtape Club then you're missing out. Enjoy! #
• A young boy moves unseen through deserted public spaces normally congested with people in Sam Huntley's sobering film for charity PACT (Parents and Abducted Children Together), made to highlight the shocking statistic that over 140K children go missing annually in the UK. #
• "Don't try to fix it. I just need you to listen." Jason Headley takes a humorously on point stab at the difficulties of relationship communication in comedy short It's Not About the Nail. #