Archive for December, 2010
Merry Christmas (X-Factor’s Over)
We’re in the midst of Lee Kern week on the podcast, so who better to deliver us a heart warming, anti-X-Factor Christmas message.
Vimeo Video School
So, you wanna be a filmmaker but despite your best efforts feel that you could do with a little guidance along the way to your auteurship? You could apply for film school, but the competition’s tough to even get through the door and once you’re there you’ll have to sell a kidney to cover tuition. [...]
VOICES – Lee Kern
Voices (2010) Director Lee Kern returns to the familiar territory of the suburbs for a new series of animations populated by the somber and tender internal monologues of its fictional residents.
Filmography 2010
@genrocks has lovingly put together a transfixing ode to 2010′s cinema releases: “This year’s movies have legitimately transformed my idea of what is creatively possible. To commemorate, I’ve remixed 270 of them into one giant ass video.” After playing the naming game you can check out the definitive list of clips and check out /Film’s [...]
Kolo/Dance
Both myself and MarBelle have always been fond of the experimental dance short and they don’t come much better than the kaleidoscopic vision of Natacha Paganelli’s Kolo. The video installation “Kolo/Dance” spreads a spectacular enchantment which could remind some of a minimalist version of the choreographic inventions of the time of Russian Ballets. Kolo from [...]
Mobile Year in Review 2010
Mobile Future deliver the head spinning figures of the Mobile Year in Review 2010 in a 3 minutes of beautifully, speedy motion graphics. via The Curious Brain
Compromise
Accept the truth of our times… embrace the Compromise. Steve Connell’s: Compromise (COGNITIVE DISSONANCE) from Gabriel Sunday on Vimeo.
Be Linen
You wouldn’t have thought a documentary about textiles could be so beautiful and so inspiring, but Be Linen (commissioned by the CELC – the European Flax and Hemp Confederation) is a totally engrossing, totally hypnotic film that tells the story of how material goes from field to fashion. BE LINEN MOVIE from Benoit MILLOT on [...]
Soft
If like me you’ve kept watch over the short film landscape for the past few years (never you mind excatly how many years!) you’ll have noticed that of late, the large majority of filmmakers seem to be making their films with the primary intention of exposure through the likes of Vimeo and YouTube, so by [...]
Premiere Japan 2010: New Japanese Cinema
BAFTA and the Embassy of Japan, funded by the Japan Foundation, hosted their sixth mini-festival on contemporary Japanese cinema at BAFTA over the weekend. Renowned programmer and critic of East Asian cinema, Tony Rayns, and Japanese film-specialist Alexander Jacoby co-programmed a selection of films that had not yet reached English screens. There was a breadth [...]
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