Archive for October, 2011
Bunraku Opening Title Sequence
Way back when DN was still young we featured Guilherme Marcondes’ short Tyger and also had him join us for an interview. So I was pleased to see Guilherme applying his puppetry/animation skills to the stunning title sequence for Guy Moshe’s Bunraku. The folks over at Art of the Title have a great interview with [...]
Sleeping Beauty
Having sufficiently got over my jealousy of MarBelle’s LFF jaunt and screenings aplenty, we made our way to the Screen on the Green for Julia Leigh’s directorial debut Sleeping Beauty, which is also her first screenplay following a literary career that has included a film adaptation of her novel, The Hunter. I was unsure of [...]
DN LFF2011: Amador – Fernando León de Aranoa
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] In the fifth feature from Spanish director Fernando León de Aranoa, a woman must reconcile dignity with personal necessity after forging a difficult friendship with the elderly, bedridden Amador. We caught up with Fernando at the London Film Festival to discuss his background as a writer and why [...]
SYNDROMES – a short film by Kristoffer Borgli & The Golden Filter
A couple weeks back we had a chat with director Kristoffer Borgli and also featured a selection of his work for your viewing pleasure. Unfortunately back then (2wks is forever online) his 11 minute collaboration with The Golden Filter, SYNDROMES hadn’t dropped yet, so in case you’ve only been making do with the trailer we [...]
DN LFF2011: Without – Mark Jackson
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, director Mark Jackson has crafted a perfectly balanced portrait of a young woman balancing on the edge of sanity, whilst drowning in the depths of grief in his feature debut Without. A lot of it is [...]
DN LFF2011 – The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975 – Göran Hugo Olsson
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] After discovering a cache of nearly 85 hours of pristine 16mm film shot by Swedish news reporters documenting the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community, director Göran Hugo Olsson brought together contemporary commentators and musicians to bring the material to life and so create [...]
DN LFF2011: Darwin – Nick Brandestini
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] In the first of our London Film Festival interviews we sit down with director Nick Brandestini to discuss his feature documentary Darwin; a look at an isolated community of 35 residents who live at end of a weathered road in Death Valley, California. When we saw there was [...]
Back in the LFF
After leaving you in the capable hands of Danni Lizaitis last year, I’m extremely happy to be returning to the London Film Festival for its 55th iteration. As always, I have the envious job of watching as many films as possible and talking to the directors whose work has made the greatest impression over the [...]
Go All Day
Directed by Colin Kennedy for sports drink Gatorade, Go All Day is a single shot journey through a high school day featuring the skating talents of Chaz Ortiz and created by skate site The Berrics. Go All Day from BATB Fans on Vimeo. And if you’re thinking ‘how the hell did they pull that off’ [...]
Short Film in Fake English
Billed as “A Short film in Fake English” and created for Kino Sydney #47, Brian Fairbairn’s Skwerl is a film about the importance of communication which cleverly keeps its viewers on point whilst obfuscating the blow by blow. Skwerl from Brian Fairbairn on Vimeo. For those of you who enjoy the ‘come again?’ aspect of [...]
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