Been quiet - working on moving cinematic space beyond the screen into reality. As such have been deeply immersed in augmented reality, intelligent environments, sentient cities - strategies to add more cinematic drama and philosophies to reality.
This is my favourite example of reverse augmented reality gathered in my research so far…
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Philips’ new fermata vid fizzes.
Our societal Coulrophobia–the fear of clowns–continues around the Carousel, an epic maximalist time-slice short from Adam Berg to showcase Philips new Cinema 21:9 televisions. Distilling a modish SWAT team/clown melée (reminiscent of Batman: The Dark Knight, and reminding me of John Woo’s Hard Boiled), this showcase short offers a masterclass [...]
Trailer for Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, NY. Looks difficult, obtuse, uncompromising, uncomfortable of genre = perfect directorial debut from Academy award-laden screenwriter?
An extraordinary piece of Le cinéma du look, with the author remixing his own text radically? Evaluate in September 2008 when this is due for release…
“Michel Houllebecq’s 2006 novel La Possibilité d’une île (The Possibility of an Island) has appeared on the Internet. La Possibilité d’une île is an acerbic piece of dystopian science fiction [...]
Kanye West’s latest visual hijinks: unapproved video remixes of arthouse favourites as instant quality music videos for Graduation. Wong Kar Wai’s 2046, and mainly footage from the BUF produced future city images of the melancholic sci-fier are utilised.
GRADUATION ALBUM LISTENING EXPERIENCE PT. 6 - FLASHING LIGHTS from kwest on Vimeo.
I have a nice stash of chip music in my iTunes folder, and have long been an enthusiast of the 8-bit aesthetic - the crude music and graphics of retro-gaming - so Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet is a documentary recently shown at SXSW 2008 which is simply a must-see. I’ve already included some of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The first couple of episodes of Ben Hibon’s animations to accompany PS3 videogame, Heavenly Sword, are here and here. I had to meet this French director after I’d checked out his previous, award-winning, Codehunters, and we talked about this project he was working on. Nice to see it coming to fruition finally. One of his [...]
I’ve just recently completed an essay to be included in the upcoming monograph Modern Living: The Graphic Universe of Han Hoogerbrugge, a book on this pioneering flash animator’s work. The book will be published later this year through BIS Publishers in cooperation with SubmarineChannel.
It’s given me a chance to reengage and fully explore Hoogerbrugge’s work [...]
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