A couple of successful L.A-based filmmakers, both Tribeca / Sundance-successful in their own right, have teamed up to bring us their Sparrow Songs series of cinematic, non-fiction web movies. One per month, every month for a whole year. Hey thanksch guysch, that’s kind of a big commitment!
Have you ever heard of Clutchy Hopkins? He’s a mightily mysterious musician, who’s father had been a recording engineer for Motown bands – passed down everything he knew. Clutchy’s recordings and journals were found under the care of a Cahuilla Indian Mohave shaman who Clutchy had studied under: the writings of a musical gypsy who … Continued
The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a steampunk opus (ya know, paper and print) which embraces multimedia snippification (you heard that here first!), spilling out into video, audio and an online gallery. It tells the tale of Harold Winslow, imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin (we’d give anything to hitch a ride on one of … Continued
Shooting Back is a video resistance project in Palestine, which equips the youngsters of the occupied West Bank with cameras to document life in this sealed-off settlement of frustration, languor, and abuse at the hands of settlers and soldiers.
Along the lines of the crowd-sourced splendor that is the video for More Is Less by C-Mon & Kypski (pride of the Netherlands) or the pioneering 2008 Supernatural Superserious REM vid by Vincent Moon, allow us to introduce The Johnny Cash Project – a collaboration between über-hotshot director Chris Milk and the don of data … Continued
3 weeks in and the web documentary production in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for Boomtown Babylon is reaching Colonel Kurtz-like levels of intensity as director Vincent Moon produces content together with inhabitants of a remote, dusty artificial frontier town way beyond the city’s limits, where former residents of destroyed inner-city slums are forcibly sent to live. … Continued
Ooh yeah we love it when two worlds collide! A Spanish creative known as Hexagonall re-creates title sequences for new stuff in the style of title sequence über-lord Saul Bass (who we often bang on about in our Forget the Film, Watch the Titles musings). Complete with the Lalo Schifrin-esque intro music, he’s done super-sweet … Continued
In the chaotic Cambodian capital making an exceptionally exciting web project called Boomtown Babylon with the French filmmaker Vincent Moon (of Blogotheque fame). We’re spreading these small, Flip-like Kodak video recorders in the charred slum of Boeung Kak and the dusty neo-slum of “Peace City” (an hour’s Mad Max ride out of town where evicted … Continued
The Magnum Photo collective which harks way back to the heady 1947 Henri-Cartier Bresson heyday has hit perfect pitch with their use of digital media for Magnum In Motion. A just-released series of visual essays by some of the fearless, adrenaline-hungry photo journalists who furnish us year in year out with seminal, hair-raising visual insights … Continued
Be afraid! This is hands down the best immersive, online, fictional game thingy we have seen yet. Like, ever. It maxes out on the use of interactive gimmicks which – when you think about it – seem like obvious tools for non-linear drama. We’re talking web-cam (to make sure you are playing in the dark! … Continued
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