In part 2 of French Fridays, a new series on Forget the Film, Watch the Titles dedicated to French title design ’50’s – ’80’s, French designer Laure Chapalain takes a closer look at Jean-Luc Godard‘s short typographic main title for Une Femme Est Une Femme (A Woman Is A Woman) – a musical comedy that … Continued
The first post in a special program on French title design 1950’s -1980’s, co-curated by Hervé Tissot and Laure Chapalain. Graphic designer/cartoonist cum celebrated crime novelist Tito Topin‘s end credit sequence for Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful is a provocative piece of vintage 1970’s pop art. Topin combines socio-political criticism with his … Continued
Liking this project by Gabriel Shalom of KS12. Shalom created an “immediated autodocumentary” on The Future of Art for the Transmediale media art festival in 2011. Some mind-boggling forecasts about art –in the widest sense of the word– are discussed in this little film. Visionary creators like Aaron Koblin (data viz wizz), Vincent Moon (Take … Continued
We get too few Asian title sequences on Watch the Titles. Why? Because it’s not a norm for local (Asian) filmmakers to invest in creative title sequences. Says Josef Lee, founder of the leading Singaporean design studio Mojo, who is making a serious effort to bring the creative title sequence into focus in Asia. We … Continued
Kudos to “6ft 5″, bearded and single” director Price James and his team. The new music video for Hercules and Love Affair‘s “My House” is an amazingly truthful emulation of a house party in a New York underground club in, say, 1989. Styling is immaculate (remember MC Hammer pants?), choreography is spot on, and got … Continued
The kids spy movie Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore left most critics unimpressed, which could explain why the uncompromisingly stylish James Bond-inspired title sequence by Imaginary Forces (IF) slipped past everyone’s radar. Well, almost… Using the original storyboards, IF’s creative director Michelle Dougherty takes us through the process of creating the title … Continued
In 2011, 3D is still the new black, and coming soon to your iPhone, thanks to Japanese media artist Jitsuro Mase. Mase invented a neat little add-on called i3DG that transforms your iPhone into a handheld 3D entertainment device. The charming accessory is remarkably lo-fi and snuggles nicely onto your iPhone‘s screen, where its three … Continued
This French crossmedia project (web, iPhone, book, tv) affectionately documents the personal stories of some of the most remarkable “street corner celebrities” of Paris. There’s Magda Pigalle, a 60-year-old Algerian transvestite from Paris’ red light district; Patrick – a homeless guy who gambles on the stock market, Violette “a flower among flowers” who runs her … Continued
Remember those music videos from the 1990’s and early 00’s that were built around the idea of a running or walking character, preferably using one continuous shot? Baillie Walsh brilliantly pioneered the concept for his instant-classic Massive Attack video for Unfinished Sympathy. Like a viral meme, the running man theme was copied, ripped off and … Continued
Before Marky Mark’s sixpack skyrocketed the sales of white Calvins, the company produced a series of Warhol-inspired CK jeans commercials. These were shot in some small wood-paneled back office and featured male and female actors-models posing, while answering suggestive questions from the man behind the camera. Some Americans associated these tv ads with evil things … Continued
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