More Michel Gondry breeding his DIY, home-crafted aesthetic: Be Kind Rewind site has Sweded home movie versions of blockbusters.
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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 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 [...]
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.”
Driving forward with the remix
Volkswagen’s Night Driving site offers a commercial remixing tool. Quality of content/film makes this compelling.
Video to go
Portable Film Festival is a no-nonsense, straight-talking, and sleekly put together Australian initiative. It does exactly what it suggests: showcasing mobile films.
Voting finishes tomorrow on the festival selection.
Gondry going forward with Rewind
Michel’s hitting his feature film stride now transferring prolific MV work rate to the big screen, with his next imminent: Be Kind Rewind starring Jack Black and Mos Def. Rather than quirky rom-com a la The Science of Sleep, he’s gone for all-out absurd comedy. Same kind of strategy Linklater used with Black on School [...]
LonelyGirl15 ends up on MySpace
In a deal that signals the ascendance of the independent video creator, MySpace will host and feature the Lonelygirl15 season finale this Friday. The finale, a culmination of the series to date, with 12 episodes released every hour over starting at 8 a.m. Pacific, is a bit of creative freedom that the Lonelygirl creators are [...]
Night falls on the Maestros
Just read Michelangelo Antonioni has died aged 94 on the same day as another cinematic great, Ingmar Bergman, aged 89. A dark day for ‘intellectual cinema’ as the NYT has it. Where has the cinema for the cineastes gone?
I had the pleasure of listening to Antonioni at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival [...]
Tetsuya Mizuguchi to reimagine Tokyo
Lumines and Rez’s Tetsuya Mizuguchi decides to build a re-imagined Tokyo for the denizens of Linden Labs’ mammoth world.
Tetsuya Mizuguchi to build Virtual Tokyo in Second Life [via Joystiq]
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