Björk’s Wanderlust, created by Encyclopedia Pictura (made up of Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch), has taken over nine months of heavy effort, animation and rendering. 2D and 3D versions of this hi-def epic are almost ready for presentation according to FEED.
Björk has always been a visual gadfly, but what I find most interesting about [...]
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Bjork’s visual lust
Slo-mo Spike explodes
Spike Jonze is currently serving visual feasts on a platter. What with the Flashing Lights video, the recent leak of upcoming third feature (adult reimagined) Where the Wild Things Are, and now exploding skateboarders (in this extreme intro video for lakai), Jonze is back on a creative hotstreak, and seemingly obsessed with slo-mo.
Watch it quick. [...]
Pangea Day previews
Take part on May 10, 2008. Pangea Day is about using film to help change the world. “Pangea Day taps the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a better future.”
An inspirational spin on a film event. The first film to preview is both creative, and thought-provoking.
On [...]
Youtube Sweded
More Michel Gondry breeding his DIY, home-crafted aesthetic: Be Kind Rewind site has Sweded home movie versions of blockbusters.
Classic: Red And Blue - Rock Opera Machinima
A capsule anti-war rock opera machinima by Andy Cobb, Red And Blue
Directed by Andy Cobb using the 3D engine Unreal Tournament 2004 to power the cinematics.
Gondry’s own video store
Like with previous feature The Science of Sleep, Michel Gondry has an accompanying installation project for Be Kind Rewind, recreating the video store from the film at the Deitch Projects gallery.
Those wanting to test their acting chops will be able to make their own cinematic odes in the gallery’s back lot, which will feature a [...]
Akira goes West
More Akira news… Although I posted on the Kanye West/Spike Jonze video for Flashing Lights only recently, I haven’t really been a fan of West up to now (although Chris Milk who I interviewed for Remixing Music Video, has made some great clips for him), suffering as he does from typical rap star pomposity. However [...]
The graphic attractions of Destination Sex City
If like me you prefer to leave certain things to the imagination, favouring the erotic rather than the pornographic, then Destination Sex City is a DVD to check out.
A compilation of nine short erotic films that fuse animation, art, graphic design and pornography into a visual indulgence unlike any other. Stylishly designed and packaged [...]
Wong Kar Wai burns up
Philips Aurea gets a dazzlingly oblique short by Wong Kar-Wai. I remember interviewing WKW behind his trademark dark glasses back in the Nineties at the ICA, London, he told me I was too young, I told him he was too stylistic (can you believe that?). Now both of us are wrong.
There’s Only One Sun is [...]
Virtual worlds are skinning the cinematic
The cinematic experience is invading virtual worlds. And in turn virtual worlds are starting to invade the cinematic. I’m starting to think about this increasingly after seeing Doug Gayeton’s presentation when I was talking at at Short Ride a Fast Machine in Amsterdam. Stylistically this is happening slowly, but in terms of subject-matter this is [...]
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