February, 2011 Archive

Animation

Audience Calibration Procedure

If all the newfangled slickery of the current batch of iDevice games has you harking back for a simpler, 8-bit time, Superbrothers may just have something

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Live Action

The Hunter

Rob breaks his Iranian Cinema virginity by taking a look at one of the nation's most recently acclaimed films, Rafi Pitts' ‘The Hunter’.

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Animation

The Silence Beneath the Bark

I somehow missed this short when Jason over at Short of the Week featured it on the site and I can’t understand how! The Silence Beneath the Bark is so

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Live Action

Involuntary DVD

A man injured at his own party prefers to soldier on through the festivities rather than ruin the night for everyone else; a group of teenage girls pout, preen

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Documentary, Music Video

The Legendary: A Film About The Roots

Cam Be is perhaps overselling matters a tad by titling this The Legendary: A Film About The Roots; comprising as it does mostly concert footage of the hip hop

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Live Action

The Big Legowski

I think you can tell how much of a cult film The Big Lebowski has become by the number of spoof/tribute videos there are on the internet, my personal favourite

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Animation

Goodbye Cow, Pirate and Cyclist

One of my favourite films so far this year, was definitely the fun-filled, action packed, stop motion epic A Town Called Panic, by Belgian duo  Stephane

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Music Video

The Give

Eliot Rausch teamed up with talented newcomer Tommy Petroni to create The Give, a short film cradled by a live performance by Chloe Katerndahl. Recently we had

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Art & Fashion, Live Action, Podcasts

DN197: Involuntary – Ruben Östlund

Described as either a tragic comedy or comic tragedy, Ruben Östlund’s second dramatic feature Involuntary reveals how the individual often bows to the

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Art & Fashion, Asides

Film 1

Film 1 by Martin de Thurah is a beautifully poetic short featuring some outstanding cinematography from DoP Kasper Tuxen and some incredible dialogue too.

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Animation, Art & Fashion

FOTB 2010 Titles

Working with the themes of attraction and repulsion, Nando Costa utilised macro motion pictures and a variety of materials with magnetic properties to convey

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Animation

The Animation Workshop

In terms of challenging, refreshing and original animation, The Animation Workshop seems to be churning out more amazing videos than I have time to watch.

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