Archive for November, 2010
UnderWire: Screenwriting
The two films I’ve chosen to mention from UnderWire’s Screenwriting category were actually old favourites of mine from a past Filmstock Festival (RIP) and London’s Short and Sweet film night. Mother, Mine is the haunting story of the young Alison, grieving the death of her adoptive mother she sets out on a quest to find [...]
UnderWire: Representation
The opening night of the first ever UnderWire Film Festival began on Thursday with five short films within the Representation category. This category was designed to show films that question societies’ norms of women and show them in a different light to how they’re often depicted; the only category in the festival that both men [...]
LIFF2010: Never Let Me Go
An adaptation of an acclaimed and beloved novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go paints a conceptually alternative world with a very familiar visual universe. The setting, at least visually, is the countryside in 1990s Britain, yet history is skewed into a parallel universe where clones are brought up from ‘birth’, only to have [...]
Bottle
In recent years, we’ve seen animations made from people, we’ve seen animations made of paper, we’ve seen animations sprayed on walls and we’ve seen animations scribbled on chalkboards. Then, just when you think animators have run out of new materials to make work out of, Bottle comes along as uses sand and snow. Kirsten Lepore’s [...]
Street Dance
Robin Cantrell’s cracked the secret formula for getting featured on DN; Film people dancing in the street and soundtrack it with Grizzly Bear, simple as that. Street Dance from Robin Cantrell on Vimeo. Street Dance 2 from Robin Cantrell on Vimeo.
Diente por Ojo
If you’ve spent anytime studying or reading about film chances are you’ve come across someone describing it as a ‘visual medium’. The mantra filmmakers are constantly instructed to burn into their brains is ‘show, don’t tell’, yet many get tangled in wordy scripts full of exposition for the feeble minded. All this is a long [...]
LIFF2010: Double Tide
A few weeks ago a review of Ruhr by James Benning was submitted as part of the coverage of the 54th London Film Festival, where I proposed Benning’s work as an extreme example of contemporary slow-cinema. Yet the six shots in Ruhr is overkill compared to Double Tide, where director Sharon Lockhart, friend and collaborator [...]
Life Just Is: Taking the Plunge
Some Thoughts by a First Time Feature Film Director Like pretty much all filmmakers, I’ve always wanted to make a feature. Other, shorter, forms of the medium are all well and good, and certainly have their place on the filmic landscape, but features are the epicentre from which they rumble – and therefore the goal [...]
Kathryn Calder: Arrow
Jon Busby’s animated promo for New Pornographer/Immaculate Machinist Kathryn Calder’s track Arrow taken from her solo album Are You My Mother? Kathryn Calder – Arrow from BLATANT on Vimeo.
Saari
I think I’ve stated on here quite a few times now, I like my animation to be weird, in all honesty, the weirder the better. Veronica Lassenius’ Saari series pretty much epitomizes my love animation, beautifully styled and weird as hell. Saari “Blue” from Veronica Lassenius on Vimeo. SAARI – “Crepes” from Veronica Lassenius on [...]
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