A Beginner’s Guide To Giving A Damn… About Climate Change is designed, directed, animated and produced by Airside, and written and co-directed by Al MacCuish.
The primary-coloured animation sports Airside’s trademark naif style, and adapts it to a jokey public service announcement. Good to see these Live Earth-commissioned shorts getting some after event exposure. Any [...]
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Airside animated over climate change
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 [...]
Under Control
Control, a film about Ian Curtis and Joy Division, by Anton Corbijn. Uncompromisingly arthouse. Another photographer/MV director transitioning to features in a sensitive/successful manner.
Hung up on Madonna
I love and hate the latest Madonna video, Hung Up, in more or less equal measures.
Why I hate it:
Performance clichés (couldn’t afford a good location scout?)
Hip-hop meets disco milieux (!?)
Incoherence (false narrative)
Krumping (Madonna trope: superficial use of street fad)
Directors Label 2005 upcoming
Three new Directors Label releases are due Summer 2005, featuring the collected music videos of esteemed helmers Mark Romanek, Jonathan Glazer, and Anton Corbijn. Stephane Sednaoui is reported to be next up after this trio.
Jonathan Glazer’s few music video and commercials have resulted in highly memorable and celebrated clips for Radiohead, UNKLE, Massive Attack and [...]
Stargazing with Jo Jo
Marc Craste is featured in an online interview on making his award-winning animation, Jo Jo in the Stars, which goes from strength to strength on the global festival circuit, picking up Best Short Film at the International 3D Awards 2004 (other winners included Onimusha 3 for Best non-interactive 3D Game Cinematics).
“Jo Jo developed from an [...]
Warped visions
WarpVision DVD | Trailer image (Itsu/Pleix)
Warp Vision, an anthology of cutting-edge videos from the pioneering electronic music label Warp, is released September 27.
Warp Vision: 1989�2004 DVD
WarpVision site
WarpVision Trailer [QT 4.7M]
Warp’s eclectic DVD selection reflects the obsessions, twists, turns and writhings of this label which, although firmly marking home territory in electronica, has never [...]
Mindgame
Mindgame is Studio 4°C’s latest transcendental animation. The studio is headed up by producer Koji Morimoto, who made his name directing a section of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Memories (Magnetic Rose was one of three films making up the feature), and recently with his accomplished Animatrix short, Beyond. Studio 4°C’s latest release though has been directed [...]
Killer Robot machinima feature
Killer Robot DVD release on Machinima.com
“Machinima.com have just released the DVD version of Killer Robot, award-winning filmmaker Peter Rasmussen’s buddy movie about two mining robots who set out to protect their “meat-sack” masters from a master mining robot gone insane. The twist here is not only that it’s Machinima, made in 3D Game Studio, but [...]
New Steamboy trailer
Latest trailer available for the much-anticipated masterpiece by virtuoso animé director, Katsuhiro Otomo:
Official site | Trailer [QT 16.1M]
Steamboy is the next feature film by Katsuhiro Otomo. This much-delayed movie, originally dated for release in October 2003, is to be released mid-July, 2004 in Japan.
The most expensive anime film ever made at 2.4 billion Yen, [...]
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