“Molotov Alva took us on an incredible journey… Now it’s your turn to show us “Your virtual Life”. This is the tagline of the Molotov Alva Machinima Contest that just launched on Machinima.com. The idea is that you create a machinima video using your favourite video game or virtual world, and blow everyone’s minds. Cinemax … Continued
Back online on May 8, Molotov Alva and his search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey, the first documentary entirely shot within Second Life. Episode 1 of this very first MiniMovie was released online in March 2007 under the title My Second Life and became a smash hit on YouTube virtually overnight, catching the … Continued
Director Rogier van der Zwaag, describes this music video for Nobody Beats the Drum as dark and dirty. It sure looks like an icky place to be! NBTD is a Dutch breakbeat formation with a knack for word play and of course a talent for great electro beats. In fact, beats are the most important … Continued
Very much a “What The Hell Are We Doing” kind of film, this eco-documentary has been four years in the making (five for some). And in the case of The Age Of Stupid blending fictional elements with reality makes for a truth scarier then fiction often is. A scary truth that is not only inconvenient … Continued
The Dutch city of Utrecht in the Netherlands is the home of the annual? Impakt festival (May 7 – 11, 2008). Lots of good stuff too see and experience at Impakt. (Of course, we’re terribly biased. SubmarineChannel was invited to partake in a panel). But even if you can’t visit the festival, you might want … Continued
Pitchfork.tv is a new and very cool TV channel, online. Launched on the 7th of April, this is the first online video music channel dedicated to documenting independent music as it happens. The, as always, independent Pitchfork, known for their up to date music coverage and criticism will bring to you now, full-length feature films, … Continued
“Golf is like sex, it’s sticks and balls…” Straight8 is a one of a kind film festival that “takes you back to the original medium of cinema … and makes you think visually,” according to Alice Lowe. Together with Jacqueline Wright, Lowe directed ‘Sticks and Balls’ – their campy, tongue-in-cheek parody of golf culture was … Continued
Although the short time-lapse film about the making of his paper-cuts is quit boring, Javan Ivey’s stop-motion film My Paper Mind is absolutely beautiful. In this experimental animation Javan explores the possibilities of the Stratastencil-technique which he invented himself. The result is amazing, we especially like the flowmotion of the swing.
Tale of Tales is Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn’s games development studio. Both award-winning designers in their own right, the duo have been operating on the forefront of independent game design. Their latest game, The Graveyard, is actually more like a painting of a grave yard you can explore, slowly. Once inside this painting you … Continued
For those of you who like the quick YouTube fix now and then: we’ve joined the ranks on YouTube. We’ll be posting trailers from our DVDs, Pretty Cool People Interviews, and Minimovies – lots of ’em. We hereby invite you to have a look and join our still very modest group of friends and subscribers … Continued
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