If you were for Obama, like 75% of the people on this planet, chances are you’re still walking on clouds of Hope, intoxicated by the promise of Change. If that’s the case with you, then read on for a few video treats, before reality slams you over the head again with the sledgehammer of post-financial … Continued
This tasty clip for Beck’s new ditty “Gamma Ray”, features downtown darling Chloë Sevigny as a tattooed ringmistress run amok, shimmying her twisted lil’ heart out against an animated collage of neon-hued, psychadelic steampunk. Directed by fashion designer/collage artiste Jess Holzworth – who, notably, cites Keith Richards as her inspiration for just about everything – … Continued
The Mackies are the awards for the best Machinima productions of the year, chosen by a jury composed of 31 experts from the worlds of machinima, new/cross/mixed media, music, film and the arts. 12 movies were awarded on November 3rd during the Machinima Filmfest 2008. Here’s the list of the winning machinimas with links to … Continued
The title sequence of the not so average triad movie Run, Papa, Run by art director Henri Wong of Parabucks revolves around the recurrent nightmare of the main protagonist. Wong combined hand-drawn animation with re-drawn live action footage and photo collage to create the titles. “I try to give audiences the feeling of rawness,” says … Continued
The people at the World Wide Web’s most coveted accolades, the Webby Awards, have compiled a list of the Top 10 Web Political Moments to help pass the time as we wait for the results of the most brutal, most expensive and most fascinating election contest in living memory. Be still my beating heart!
Damaged Goods brings to life Barnaby Barford’s much-loved ceramic figurines, in a 9-minute love story that has (drumroll please) shattering consequences. Made possible by Animate Projects, this short film merges the boundaries between art and animation and would, like many others in the Animate repertoire, sit as comfortably in a contemporary art gallery as it … Continued
Several things about the story of travelling salesman-turned-record archivist Paul Mawhinney are remarkable. Firstly, this charismatic Pittsburgh protagonist is in possession of the world’s largest record collection, with over a million albums and over 1.5 million singles. Secondly, 83% of his inventory is unavailable to the public. Thirdly, and heart-breakingly, absolutely nobody seems to care.
This little lady sure loves her watermelons! She slips into her finest lingerie and bathes in pink juice before deigning to eat of her beloved fruit. Such goings-on are run-of-the-mill in the spellbinding world of London-based director Woof Wan-Bau, where film and animation cohabit in perfect harmony: an irresistably dreamy suspended reality which will have … Continued
What is it with Germans and red balloons? Ballooon Project: Berlin is part of the Disposable Film Festival online program, and features a video camera (type: unkown) tied to a bunch of red balloons that is set free to capture scenes of a rainy Berlin from on high, while the filmmakers cycle around the city … Continued
RIP: A Remix Manifesto is a radical open source documentary film that addresses the Great Copyright Debate in the age of mass piracy. The Montreal-based director Brett Gaylor, a veteran of digital democracy, shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org and invites the public to remix it, pioneering a new mash-up movie genre as he goes.
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