Archive for July, 2011
Factory
Made in just 3 weeks, Factory’s vivid 3D animation and realistic settings make this bizarre short a fascination watch. Factory from Mylène Guérin on Vimeo.
Chute (Fall)
Mathias Lachal has created a balletic, animated fall to earth in his Emile Cohl graduation film Chute (Fall). Chute (Fall) from Mathias Lachal on Vimeo.
La Nuit de l’Ours
Created during their fourth year at La Cambre Animation Workshop in Brussels, Alexis Fradier, Julien Regnard (whose chase animation Jump impressed us) & Pascal Giraud’s la Nuit de l’Ours is a captivating monochrome animation about a female hunter and her encounters with nature. la Nuit de l’Ours from Alexis Fradier on Vimeo.
DN212 – Absentia – Mike Flanagan
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Mike Flanagan’s missing persons, horror feature Absentia does away with cheap jump scares in favour of a character study on the tolls absence takes on those left behind, with some deftly executed ‘less is more’ frights to boot. Mike joins us to discuss building a film from your [...]
I Touched a Red Button
Combine David Lynch, one of recent time’s most pioneering filmmakers, with Interpol, one of the coolest bands on the planet and what the collaboration yields is actually something quite unexpected. First spotted at the Coachella festival, I Touched a Red Button is an experimental (that part we expected!) animation set to the sounds of Interpol [...]
Absentia – Mike Flanagan
Absentia (2011) Absentia tells the story of a woman and her sister who begin to link a mysterious tunnel to a series of disappearances. Tricia’s husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him ‘dead in absentia.’ As Tricia [...]
Jump
Using TV Paint (a paperless drawing and animation tool), animator Julien Regnard has created a stylish 2D animation that is bound to impress all who gaze upon it. The high tempo story and soundtrack contrast perfectly with the classic animation style employed, you won’t see many other animation resembling Regnard’s. JUMP from Julien Regnard on [...]
Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film – 2011
Even if you have little interest in the ubiquitous ‘list’ style of blog post, there’s one annual collection that anyone with a propensity towards indie film looks forward to annually and that’s Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Aside from our usual level of curiosity as to which directors we should run to [...]
The Tree of Life
2011’s controversy in the world of film may have centred once again around Lars von Trier and his Cannes Film Festival outbursts, now dubbed ‘Larsgate’, yet this hasn’t been the most debated cinematic event of the year. Causing one cinema to post a sign, warning potential viewers to be wary of this “deeply philosophical film from an [...]
Les Talons Rouges
Olesya Shchukina’s student film Les Talons Rouges is a playful response to her brief from La Poudriere animation school to create a one minute film, in 3 months, on the subject a child’s point of view. Unfortunately the only embeddable copy is only a teaser but you can watch the whole thing and see work [...]
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