Archive for September, 2009
DN EP 145: Ralph – Alex Winckler
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] It’s always daunting confessing undying love for the first time. Even more so when the girl concerned thinks of you as her ‘little brother’. Throw in the confusion of arriving in a country where you don’t speak the language or even have the correct phone number for the [...]
Ralph – Alex Winckler
Ralph (2008) A teenage boy travels alone to Marseille to tell his best friend that he is in love with her but he hasn’t told her that he’s coming.
SotW: Oktapodi & Who’s Gonna Save My Soul
It’s time to come clean about my recent moonlighting over on SotW with a couple of new articles. Enjoy: Oktapodi – Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier & Emud Mokhberi Who’s Gonna Save My Soul – Chris Milk
DN EP 144: Moray McLaren: We Got Time – David Wilson
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Animation can be a long, arduous process that requires God like patients, however after taking part in a real-time arts project, director David Wilson discovered that combining praxinoscopes with custom record labels created a much faster form of animation that could be completed fully in-camera; without the need [...]
Moray McLaren: We Got Time – David Wilson
Moray McLaren: We Got Time – David Wilson (2009) Using both praxinoscopes and the technique of matching up the frame rate of the spinning record to that of the camera, no computer super-imposing was used; what you see is what rolled off the camera. The transitions between each section of animation was created by simply [...]
DN EP 143: Subprime – Beeple
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This week’s DN guest Beeple is a director who works across many areas of film, including live action, music promos and animation. For his latest piece Beeple decided to widen his skill set by adding 3D animation to his arsenal and a mere 5 months later completed the [...]
Subprime – Beeple
Subprime (2009) Watch as the American housing market spirals out of control. An urgent cry for simplicity, Subprime uses a constantly rotating isometric perspective to illustrate the current subprime mortgage crisis in the United States. Every successive house that is built folds into itself and sprouts the growth of a bigger one, only to repeat [...]
DN EP 142: Jennifer – Stewart Copeland
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] After the passing of his mother, director Stewart Copeland embarked on the creation of the documentary Jennifer to address the issues of loss and how a person’s absence can alter the atmosphere of the places they used to occupy for those left behind. Stewart joins us to discuss [...]
Jennifer – Stewart Copeland
Jennifer (2008) In the short film Jennifer, filmmaker Stewart Copeland explores his relationship with his mother through a recorded conversation between eighth-grade students and astronauts aboard the international space station. Utilizing home movies, found footage, ambient music and voice over, combined with Copeland’s own imagery, the film explores the distant spaces between memory and history; [...]
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