Is it a cult? Is it a game? Or is it a life changing adventure? So many questions in the trailer of ‘The Institute’, a documentary about the game experience ‘Jejune Institute,’ and its 10.000+ participants. This fascinating doc looks at what happens when fact and fiction are no longer separable. Directed by Spencer McCall, … Continued
There’s been a real peak in interactive music videos made with user generated content (UGC), pulled from different social media platforms. Talking about a niche! Here’s a little overview of the best ones yet, all selected by our music video heaven 2Pause.
Applause! Web documentary and Submarine’s fellow nominee ‘Alma’ won the 2013 Visa d’Or FRANCE 24-RFI Web Documentary Award. Well deserved! The jury also gave a special mention to web documentary ‘La Duce Vita’, created by Cyril Bérard and Samuel Picas, and co-produced by Darjeeling and LeMonde.fr. Good observation, this piece of art is definitely worth … Continued
Documentary maker Elaine McMillion made a splendid interactive documentary about the brain drain of McDowell County, West Virginia and how its people deal with this and other hardships. Thanks to a Kickstarter campaign and the Tribeca Film Institute’s New Media Fund , she helped locals to tell their own story in ‘Hollow’. Take a look and take … Continued
John Mayer’s new video on 2Pause ‘Submarine Test January 1967’ is one to fall in love with. The animation is made entirely without post-production. How? Producer Virgilio Villoresi used animation techniques from the pre-cinema era, aka optical toys. Lucky for us, there are lots of music videos created with optical toys like the ombro cinema, … Continued
Interactive web documentary Défence d’Afficher takes you on a journey through an imaginary cityscape to discover eight mini documentaries about street artists from all corners of the world. We talked to creator François Le Gall from Camera Talk Productions.
Wonderful! This fantastic 3-D animation integrated in a real cityscape that is just ever so gentle on the eye. Go see it now on 2Pause; then come right back here; see the making-of pictures and read the Q&A we did with creator Alain Maessen from the Dutch production studio Aap Noot Film.
The idea is so simple and elegant, that you wished you came up with it yourself. It’s storytelling with an almost forgotten medium: the pay phone. The New Museum and Droga5 created a time machine that goes straight back to 1993 in the form of thousands of pay phones on the island of Manhattan. Learn … Continued
You might already have seen the latest interactive music video ‘Do Not Touch’ by artsy design studio Moniker, from Amsterdam. Because that thing is pretty viral by now. We did an interview with Roel Wouters from Moniker because who’d ever come up with crowd-sourced cursors?? Add your own cursor here.
Last month was an excellent time for lovers of retro futurism in music videos. No less than three amazing videos aired, that clearly got their divine inspiration from the last three decades of the 20th century. Intropial by Nils Muhlenbruch Aquila by Kadavre Exquis He^rt by Starcadian
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