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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Akira finally to be live?
According to Variety, Warner Bros. will turn anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo’s six-volume graphic novel masterwork Akira into two live action feature films, the first of which is being fast tracked for release in summer 2009.
WB, which had the Akira rights several years ago, only to let them lapse and then recapture them in a spirited [...]
Son of Rambow unspools soon
Long been a fan of Garth Jennings and the Hammer & Tongs brand of whimsy married with technical innovation. So it is great to see Son of Rambow, their first film which wasn’t (while ready to go on this quirky pic, the guys got the offer to do Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which they [...]
Call for Entries: MuVi Programme Oberhausen
The 59th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen has an astounding range of shorts and a very cool music video programme (I had the pleasure of being on the jury for it last year). There’s still time to enter your music video into the festival:
The MuVi International programme combines extraordinary music video productions from all [...]
Spike Jonze boots up Kanye West
Spike Jonze co-directed video with Kanye West (who gets the music artist vanity credit), for the rap artist’s Flashing Lights video. With new album replete with Takashi Murakami cover image for Graduation, Kanye West plunders pop sensibilities both sonically and visually. You can’t go wrong drafting in Jonze to add an instant edgy tone to [...]
Solar heats up Goldfrapp
Trying to find time to process and post on the amazing advancedbeauty.com project. In the meantime, came across Solar, a lovely experimental video (audio = Lovely Head by Goldfrapp) by flight404, one of the contributors to that dvd/sound-moving image installation project.
Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.
Little Minx an Exquisite Corpse
Little Minx Exquisite Corpse:
A distributive film narrative based on the surrealist parlour game featuring Little Minx directors: Laurent Briet, Chris Nelson, Malik Hassan Sayeed, Josh Miller, Phillip Van & Steph Green. Manifesting the collective imagination through the Exquisite Corpse game. The Little Minx Exquisite Corpse is an extraordinary meeting ground of chance. Rule of the [...]
Viewing The Gum Thief
Lo-fi book promo video for Douglas Coupland’s The Gum Thief done right. Just like one of his disaffected characters would film it. After Eleanor Rigby I though DC was going off the boil, but Microserf’s follow-up JPod really came up with the goods. Now I’ve seen this compilation I’m definitely going to sample The Gum [...]
Machinima Festival Europe 07 starts
“De Montfort University’s Institute of Creative Technologies will host the 2007 European Machinima Festival, the first Machinima festival to be held in Europe. The festival, which will take place at the University’s campus centre from 12 – 14 October, will show case the latest Machinima films and will attract Machinima makers world-wide.”
Afterworld isolated
A cross between classic cult film Soylent Green and acclaimed The Last Man graphic novels ….
Afterworld is an innovative hybrid animation that’s designed to work between online and television spaces. US viewers can currently watch regular episodes on YouTube (they locked off the preview episodes some time ago, once they’d locked their Sony deal), International [...]
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