The cut-throat world of East Coast / West Coast Street Fighter IV warfare is exposed in this gripping documentary by first-time filmmaker Ian Cofino. The testosterone-fuelled hooligeekism (you heard it HERE first!) of head-to-head fighter gaming is as competitive and ruthless as any team sport you care to mention.
Fun-tastic new Franz Ferdinand video directed by the inimitable Kris Moyes, of barmy Heart It Races (Architecture in Helsinki) video fame. We love the general tongue-in-cheekery, and the visual high jinks. Watch and re-watch!
Simple geniusity: a member of electro band Science for Girls got 20 musician buddies to record themselves playing one track in B-flat (a musical key, for those who forewent the screechery of school orchestra), and post them on Youtube. He then embedded them all on one simple web page – and now YOU can make like a fiddler … Continued
Stock footage, movie footage and original clips in an eternal ascending loop from hell to heaven! Yes please! The incredible piece of (so much more than) video art that is Civilization was created for the elevators in New York’s Standard Hotel. Filmographic genius man Marco Brambilla came up with this beyond awesome interpretation of Dante’s … Continued
Professor / turntablist / activist / clever person DJ Spooky’s new movie “Rebirth of a Nation”, which recently premièred at MOMA, is now available on DVD – and it’s definitely something you might want to own. Originally commissioned as a live multimedia performance, it uses Spooky’s mad remixing skills, plus a heavy dose of his … Continued
Eternal youth! War-mongering wizards! Sexual potency at the click of a mouse! We’re talking about virtual worlds. You know, Second Life, World of Warcraft, Sally’s Spa? Over 70 million people now spend time in a virtual world each and every day. 70 million! would rather hang out with avatars in a darkened room, than with … Continued
TheOneMinutes is… a collection of one-minute videos! But it’s more than that, otherwise we wouldn’t mention it now would we. It’s a well-designed online platform for cross-cultural content sharing where the contrasts and parallels of our vast, complex humanity can be glimpsed upon, in little one-minute chunks. From documentary-style insights into remote Albanian village life, … Continued
Get heaps talent, add a unique hybrid of skills, and a sprinkling of inherent splendidness, and what have you got: the visual delicacy that is this mini-trailer for work-in-progress interactive web documentary Boomtown Babylon. The art-tech heroes at Champagne Valentine and Mulato repurposed a heap of timelapsed chaos footage with a whole lotta 3D Studio … Continued
When creatives of the commercial kind make something just for the hell of it, we get a warm, glowing feeling inside. “You made this beautiful oeuvre just for us?”, we say (while checking said oeuvre for clandestine logo placement). Well, Doug Purver sure did, with his charming short Omar and His Skyhook.
Second in our series of shorts by the inimitable Sietske Tjallingii, aka Miss T, The General is a veritable gala of home-made wonders, that culminates in a darkly humoristic satire on American post-imperialism. A battalion of sandy tankers appears to advance threateningly, before being crushed by ruthless, Nazi-looking army boots. The camera pans out to … Continued
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