Archive for January, 2010
Top 10 Sundance Documentaries of the Decade
Film critic Dennis Lim, who’s been covering the festival this year over at the Sundance Channel, has put together a rather nice list of the Top 10 Sundance Documentaries of the Decade. It particularly warms my heart to see my top film of 2007 Zoo in there, along with past (print) DN interviewee Ondi Timoner’s [...]
LIVE@SUNDANCE 2010: Producers Round Table
“Recently, Sundance Film Festival brought a group of independent film producers together for an informal discussion. This is what they talked about. Join Christine Vachon, Ted Hope, Thomas Woodrow, Liz Watts, and Jonathan Schwartz”
DN EP 154: Panic Attack! – Fede Alvarez
It’s an oft quoted phrase that ‘Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity’, well this week’s guest Fede Alvarez is certainly living proof of that. After working away on his pet ‘robots attack’ SFX project for a couple of years, Fede cashed in on the Facebook built, viral hype surrounding his short Panic Attack [...]
The Fitzcarraldo Sessions
Creative double-act Duckeye have created a mesmerizing video for French Musicians The Fitzcarraldo Sessions, using a fascinating combination of hands on creative skills and After Effects trickery. “Everything in the video was either filmed or drawn, then edited using After Effects and projected into a tank of water into which we poured ink, milk and [...]
Panic Attack! – Fede Alvarez
Panic Attack! (2009) Giant robots invade Montevideo!
Jam Session
8 people with 5 instruments from 4 Continents speaking 3 languages for 1 song.
Garuda
An animated short film about a young boy in India chasing after his dream. Animated at Les Gobelins in Paris.
Forget the film, Watch the Titles
I can often tell how much I’m going to like a film, just by viewing it’s opening sequence and with my ever increasing interest in in motion graphics, typography and animation the title sequence has become somewhat of an obsession of mine. Due to this, the website The Art of the Title Sequence has become [...]
Insignificant Images
At one point in photographer Ryan McGinley’s glorious promo for Pringle, Tilda Swinton staggers bewildered though a cornfield in a black cocktail dress, before looking directly at the camera and announcing “insignificant images”. It would be harsh to label McGinley’s Ad spot as just this, as it’s not only vividly cinematic but hauntingly atmospheric. If [...]
Yes to nofilmschool
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one saddened at the announcement that Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo and Zachary Lieberman vehicle, The West Side was going on hiatus, perversely due to Ryan and Zac’s success with the series. Well things have been a little quiet since then and whilst I had no doubt our past guests were hard [...]
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