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Pothound
Pothound noun 1. A dog of mixed or indeterminate breed. A mutt or mongrel. 2. A street dog frequently associated with mischief. Like a super stylish version of the Littlest Hobo Christopher Guinness’ Pothound gives us a dog’s eye view of our four legged hero as she keeps the city safe for you and me. [...]
Shame
Sex in film has always been a controversial subject, whether it’s the explicit scenes of Baise-Moi, the teenage promiscuity exhibited in Larry Clark’s Kids or the legendary ‘butter’ scene of The Last Tango in Paris, celluloid sex has for decades now caused debate for audiences and film classifiers alike. Adding more fuel to the fire, [...]
Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut
So, you remember the post El Vez wrote at the end of 2009 about the crowd sourced version of Star Wars: A New Hope recreated in 15 second chunks? Well, it may seem like a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but Casey Pugh and his team now present Star Wars Uncut: [...]
DN229: The Father – David Easteal
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Director David Easteal’s short The Father explores redemption and sacrifice after an unnamed dereliction of duty. David joins us to discuss capturing reality and how it’s possible for an audience to discover themes in a film its director was unaware of. I like something to seem real […] [...]
Nuevo Mexico
Film is, as they say, a visual medium in which you should ‘show and not tell’. Whilst many filmmakers walk the tortured line of building visuals to support sophisticated narratives, some simply want to show you cool looking shit. I don’t know if the characters in the Scumbags filmmaking group’s Nuevo Mexico are playing out [...]
The Father – David Easteal
The Father (2011) Haunted by his past, a man searches for forgiveness. Getting it however, may come at a cost.
Train
When it comes down to it, would you step in to help someone in trouble or would you take the coward’s way out? Darius Clark Monroe and his crew took to a 2am Brooklyn bound F train with a Panasonic HVX to capture Train, an understated study of culpability. TRAIN from Darius Clark Monroe on [...]
Gravity // Un Rêve de Demain
Filip Piskorzynski and Natalia Dufraisse put pixilation to great narrative use in their story of a free spirit literally brought down to earth in Gravity // Un Rêve de Demain. GRAVITY // UN RÊVE DE DEMAIN from Filip Piskorzynski on Vimeo.
DN228: Tower Block – Nikias Chryssos
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Nikias Chryssos’ short Tower Block is the exception to the rule of keeping shorts under the 20 minute mark. Running at nearly 40 minutes it’s an enthralling blend of social realism and flights of fancy, which tell the story of a young boy’s quest for a father figure [...]
Tower Block – Nikias Chryssos
Tower Block (2006) Daniel and his older brother Patrick live together in a tower block in Germany. Patrick forces Daniel to go around collecting money and plays sadistic games with him. Daniel escapes into fantasy worlds. As he suffers more and more from his brother’s tyranny, he believes to have found a friend in Bernd, [...]
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