If you missed our “New Psychedelica in Music Videos” screenings at the Lowlands Festival or MU gallery, you are cordially invited to tune in, turn on, and drop out with the selected videos using these two 2Pause “New Psychedelica” playlists. Groovy! Read more about our “New Psychedelica in Music Videos” program.
The latest addition to French Fridays, a guest-curated program on Watch the Titles dedicated to French title design, is The Troubles of Alfred – a movie by the famous French comedian Pierre Richard. This title sequence for this film brings us back to one of the main reasons why we started Forget the Film, Watch the Titles back in … Continued
Doudouboy is a French illustrator and animator whose mysterious short Magic Lantern Deluxe (here on Vimeo) was featured on the Best of Submarine Channel DVD. FFWD> to 2011. 2Pause features Doudouboy’s latest music video, “made together with my girlfriend John Deneuve,” Doudouboy writes in an email. (John is not a boy. We checked). “She’s an … Continued
No, this is not an Edvard Munch painting, or an undiscovered Van Gogh (from his “Potato Eaters” period). Blown Minded is a seriously mind-blowing (pun!), as well as turbulently expressive music video done by a painter-photographer by the name of Carine Khalifé. Khalifé uses painting combined with stop-motion animation. The poetically meandering analogue brush strokes … Continued
We’re tripping with joy over the fact that our 2Pause curated collection of bedazzling new psychedelic music videos will be screened in a 60-minute session at the equally psycho-sensational Lowlands Festival this year. “New Psychedelica in Music Videos” is our humble ode to a new-found interest in the psychedelic visuals which are becoming increasingly apparent … Continued
Tipped off by the mere hint that Hollywood heavyweight actor Edward Norton would be directing and producing a motion feature based on a novel by Jonathan Lethem, French graphic and motion designer Remy Le Rumeur rolled onto an ambitious venture to create his version of the opening titles to the anticipated “Motherless Brooklyn” movie. Immersing … Continued
No CG (this is 1972, after all), or any other form of film processing was used to create the title sequence for The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe. It’s just magic and a deck of cards. The illusionist’s hands performing the card tricks are Gérard Majax‘s. Majax, who is like the French David … Continued
We receive a lot of emails from young designers asking what they have to do to become a title designer. I always tell them do what Jurjen Versteeg did, and just do it! In 2009, Versteeg, created an unofficial opening title sequence for Sean Penn‘s feature Into the Wild, and was subsequently asked to design … Continued
French Fridays guest curator Laure Chapalain unearths another forgotten gem from the treasure chest of French title design history. For the comedy L’Aile ou la Cuisse (1976), title designer Michel Saignes, who once stated that title designers are “prisoners of the medium’s stereotypes,” drew inspiration from the revolutionary work of Douglas Trumbull, the VFX pioneer … Continued
Amazingly, Rango’s end credit sequence was done in just a few weeks, yet the project allowed for a lot of interesting new ideas based on a set of intricate illustrations, woodcut art, and hand-drawn typography, with a bit of Hendrix thrown in for good measure. Prologue’s creative director Henry Hobson reconstructs the process and shares … Continued
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