Archive for June, 2009
Green Man Forever
The folks over at Film Friends Forever are joining forces with the Green Man Music Festival for an evening of live music and film performances from Echaskech (Just Music), and Neotropic (Ninja Tune, Mush Recordings). For those who want to do more than sit on the sidelines, there’s the opportunity to become a part of [...]
DN EP 136: Khoda – Reza Dolatabadi
The field of animation is probably the most labour intensive means of filmmaking, but even by those standards most projects look like a breeze when weighed against the 6000+ digital paintings created by my guest Reza Dolatabadi for his sumptuous graduation film Khoda. Khoda Materials Image Sequences & Film Stills Showlinks Reza Art Reza’s Flickr [...]
Dislocation ’09
Last year past guest (and creator of the DN stings), Robin van Rijn launched the Dislocation Festival: two days of experimental music, films and cake of the highest order. DN was more than honoured to be asked to present the film portion of Dislocation and switch from the solitary computer screen to a projector and [...]
Khoda – Reza Dolatabadi
Khoda (2008) What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet his high personal standards. Khoda is a psychological thriller; a student project [...]
SotW: Snow Angel & Handmade
I’ve pretty much been fighting a losing battle against posting slackness here on DN, but thankfully my Short of the Week rotation has kept me at least slightly honest and tapping away at the keys. So I have not one, but two SotW posts for you to check out: Handmade – CISMA Snow Angel – [...]
DN EP 135: Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss – Sharlene Azam
Through her work with Canadian teenage girls, author Sharlene Azam discovered the emergence of teenage prostitution rings in affluent suburbs. “Attractive, white, high school girls – 13, 14 and 15 years old – who were having sex with up to 7 men a night, several times a week“. She joins me to discuss her documentary [...]
Basement Jaxx Call in Max Hattler
If you’re a regular round these parts you know I have a massive love for the work of visual artist Max Hattler (DN074 & DN119), so I wasn’t at all surprised to hear that after seeing his experimental piece Drift at last year’s London International Animation Festival, Basement Jaxx got their management to track him [...]
Lynch ‘em all
Not content with being a world renowned filmmaker, photographer and painter, the legend that is David Lynch is embracing digital technology once again, by turning his hand to a new web-based project simply called the Interview Project. The project consists of the Lynch team (led by his son Austin Lynch) traveling on a 20,000 mile road trip [...]
Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss – Sharlene Azam
Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss (2009) Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss looks at the recent emergence of teenage prostitution rings in affluent suburbs. Attractive, white, high school girls – 13, 14 and 15 years old – are having sex with up to 7 men a night, several times a week, so [...]
Lynch’s Interview Project
This may have completely passed me by were it not for @boaboaboa giving me a nudge, but master of the macabre David Lynch has sent a team on a 20,000 mile road trip over 70 days across the United States to find people and their stories. Not sure what the planned release schedule is but [...]
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