Archive for May, 2010
When The Time Is Ripe
Ever felt different? Ever felt like you don’t belong? Ever felt like a Pear in the United Steaks? When The Time Is Ripe from Shion Takeuchi on Vimeo.
DN165: Bodies – Sam Norton
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] All film projects experience difficulties to varying degrees, the test for filmmakers is what they do when they hit these challenges. With Bodies director Sam Norton set out to create a comedy feature and instead came back with a poignant, abstract, relationship short. He joins me to discuss [...]
Crash! Bang! Wallow?
Jon Dunleavy and Keith Wilson-Signer’s tale of ex-stuntman Larry LeTan and his fight to find a place in modern world.
Leader of the Pack
I’ve noticed I post a lot of animation on DN, now I don’t know if that’s because I struggle to find good live action shorts, because I’m picky or just because there are more decent animated shorts out there. The one thing you can count on though is when I do post a piece of [...]
Bodies – Sam Norton
Bodies (2010) A film about physicality. A deconstruction of relationships based on this fundamental difference from friendships.
Walking On Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age
For their Intellectual Property in the Digital Age final project, Yale students Jacob Albert, Ryan Beauchamp and Brendan Schlagel created the 24 minute documentary Walking On Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age. Much like the feature RIP: A Remix Manifesto, the short looks at the role of copyright and intellectual property in the modern [...]
Eyjafjallajökull
You may have noticed my input into Directors Notes was pretty much non-existent during the month of April. Like many people, I had a 17 day holiday, turned into 32 day stay in Thailand because of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. So in tribute to the natural disaster which gave me a lovely extended holiday, check [...]
The Creators Project
The Creators Project is what you get when you mash-up Vice, Intel and 80+ talented, creative, boundary pushing artists from music, art, film, design and architecture, who all believe that technology can be used to serve the creative process. Spanning seven countries, it promises to deliver a mix of proven big names alongside the next [...]
SotW: Apricot
Do you remember your first love? Your first kiss? Do you remember anything? Ben Briand’s Apricot questions what it would be like if you just couldn’t quite recall anything. It’s Short of the Week time again. Have a read and a watch.
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