Congratulations to Smith & Foulkes who’ve just been nominated for the 2009 Best animated short Oscar for This Way Up. You have the opportunity to see the film as a free download from iTunes as part of a Sundance Film Festival tie-in until 25 January.
I’ve been a huge fan of the output of Nexus Productions [...]
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Red Carpet for This Way Up
Human cartographics
This feels like signature Lost in Space work by Rob Rae. Beautiful austere monochrome precision tracing the lines of human cartography.
Fading Object from Motioncult on Vimeo.
Lynch’s proto-dreamworld
David Lynch’s 55 second short filmed with an original Lumiere camera. 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, no synchronized sound was [...]
Ballardian video gain with Vista 8
Vista 8 is the winner of the 1st Ballardian Festival of Home Movies. Other finalists of this sub-one minute in-camera mobile phone video recordings also show a provocative analogue/digital purity.
As someone who’s experimented with mobile phone footage for years (the frozen ROAM project - pushing new aesthetics for the mobile screen/locative video) - this is [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hoogerbrugge, actionscript auteur
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 [...]
Half a millenium of woman
Women In Art uses a super simple morphing technique to travel through 500 years of female portraits in Western painting. It’s stark, dynamic, completely off-trend, and totally riveting.
[via William Gibson]
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