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Shankaboot Digital Emmy Happiness

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The Digital Emmy that nearly had us with Collapsus finally went to the splendid Lebanese web drama Shankaboot. It’s about as far-removed from Collapsus as it’s possible to be: a straight-up series of live action micro-stories that follow the daily misadventures of courier/dreamboat Sleiman as he zips around Beirut on his Vespa.

L’Abri de Rien

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The French have always been a dab hand at cinematic gorgeousness, and now they’re paving the way in the wide world of web documentary too. Just spotted on ARTE’s Webdocs Twitter feed is Samuel Bollendorff’s (reportage photography badasss and genre pioneer) brand new, beautifully simple series of audio-visual testimonies addressing dignity and degradation around the … Continued

Lou Reed’s Red Shirley Movie

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If there’s two things we love in this world it’s old ladies and rock’n’roll – so the fact that Lou Reed has made a documentary portrait of his 100-year-old cousin makes our serotonin just sing-aling! Red Shirley is a 28-minute visual testimony to this mega inspiring dame who survived two world wars, spear-heading workers’ rights … Continued

Emmy & More SXSW Love for Collapsus

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Oh me oh MY! A double-whammy ego-massage for our energy risk conspiracy Collapsus this week, in the shape of (first) an Emmy nomination for Best Digital Fiction. Allow me to repeat: An. Emmy. Nomination. Bouquets to the usual address please! Or maybe wait for the results on MIPTV‘s opening shindig in the palm-fringed palisades of … Continued

Spike Jonze / Arcade Fire premiere. Yumz!

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Arcade on Fire this week! A Grammy, a Brit and a premiere of the aforementioned Spike Jonze-directed short movie Scenes From the Suburbs at none other than the annual apex of Euro movie hipsterism: Berlinale. Three members of the hallowed posse answered (mainly silly) questions to a madding press conference crowd, and then the movie … Continued

Berlinale Report: Miranda July Premiere

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Reporting live and direct from Berlinale 2011, we bring you a fresh dollop of our old buddy Miranda July, in the form of her spanking new feature, The Future. This morning’s European premiere at the Palast theater (a.k.a Berlinale’s sumptuous red-carpet zenith) hosted a packed audience of frantic July-worshippers – and judging by the minimal … Continued

Keeping up with The Jonze

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Canadian musical visionaries Arcade Fire have teamed up with the ubiquitous Spike Jonze for a 28-minute “science fiction B-movie”, inspired by their album The Suburbs. The first scenes of this holy alliance will be revealed at Berlinale next week – and we’ll be there to witness the magic (reporting back with an uncanny swiftness, naturally). … Continued

BEP Revenge!

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Apologies for talking about the Black Eyed Peas (they were cool once you know!) but will.i.am has come up with something rather clever to counter this recent craze for music promos that go wiggidy wild on the data-viz, tech-spectacular front, thus casting the stars of the show asunder. Mister i.am’s app – the first of … Continued

Dutch Public Cleverness #2?

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They’re not exactly our cuppa, but since everybody’s buzzing about those pesky Oscars we couldn’t help noticing: it’s the second year running that IDFA’s Audience Award winner got Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary feature. Could it be that the Dutch public got it right yet again on Waste Land following their vote on The Cove which … Continued