If you’ve ever attended one of their events across the globe you’ll know that the All Tomorrow’s Parties festivals and gigs are all about two things; the music and the fans. ATP is one of the few live events that actively encourages fans to take pictures and shoot video of musicians performing on and off [...]
I’ve been a fan of animator Kris Hofmann’s stop motion work since seeing her true lives of the animals we eat piece Breakfast a couple years ago. Her new piece Screwed Up is a charming film about not knowing a good thing until it’s gone, which stars a nut and a bolt. Kris joins me [...]
Breakfast (2009) Often, we present our children with toys and books that tell joyful tales of animals living in peace on farms, surrounded by fields and forests. When a child’s room is left empty an ordinary tape player and a well used puzzle come to life and start to tell the truth behind the pretty [...]
The discovery of porn, an important and memorable part of every young boys life! Bevan Walsh’s Love Does Grow on Trees is a coming of age comedy about a teenage boy whose life is thrown into chaos when he discovers adult magazines, girls and the embarrassment that goes with both. Love Does Grow on Trees [...]
Back in August we spoke to Joey Daoud, director of the high school battle bots documentary Battle Bots. While we were only able to share a few clips, you’ll have the opportunity to see the full feature for free Oct 6th as part of the Bots High Free Worldwide Screening Day. Find a screening near [...]
“I met a brain surgeon, I met a brain surgeon here….and he was tripping on acid!”
Director Noel Paul of DN promo favourites That Go, kicks the Brite Futures Too Young To Kill video into high creative gear by adding a repeating, glitchy visual trick to what could have been a straight up multi-costume band promo. Simple, yet highly effective. “The video was inspired by the band’s obsession of sharing cool [...]
Creative advertising is something I feel should always be applauded and Gustav Johansson’s Live the Language series of films for the EF Intl. Language Centers are a creative way to have you fall in love with locations whose languages they can teach you. If the destinations from El Vez’s previous Live the Language post didn’t [...]
N9ve, a multidisciplinary design studio based in Turin, has fun with fonts in The Alphabet and then showcases a whole variety of animation skills in The Alphabet 2. A spelling-video, where each character is the initial letter of a font name. The Alphabet from n9ve on Vimeo. The Alphabet 2 – a video where each [...]
Of the 100s, probably 1000s of short films I’ve seen in my life, Andrea Arnold’s 2003 Oscar winning short Wasp is without a doubt one of the best. It authentically captures the atmosphere, relationships, struggles and small scale dreams of people living on an estate, much like the one I grew up on. While also [...]