Who knew that Nigeria’s film industry is the world’s third largest after (positions disputable) Bollywood and Hollywood? A Sundance highlight this year was documentary Nollywood Babylon, which celebrates the heady blend of Pentecostalism and voodoo unique to a wildly popular, straight-to-video B-movie genre that is taking Nigeria by storm. Set to a score of 70s … Continued
South African artist collective The Black Heart Gang have created an epic hand-drawn animation on an audiobed of kabuki-inspired operatic warbling. The Tale of How has a Biblical/Apocalyptic feel to it, as intricate visuals depict the story of Otto, a tyrannical octopus who shamelessly munches on the innocent Dodos living atop his head – before … Continued
The UK Film Council has launched a film search engine that covers everything from A Barrel Full of Dollars (1971 spaghetti Western) to Zizek! (obscure cultural theory documentary). Part of a push to steer the masses away from peer-to-peer file-sharing and towards the legal alternatives, the website contains 30 000 films – that’s roughly 7 … Continued
Ever wondered where Mr President finds the time to write all those hair-raising speeches? A new documentary by Kasper Verkaik (director of our Minimovie Dear Oprah fame) for Dutch broadcaster VPRO’s Backlight series, investigates the role of Jon Favreau, the baby-faced wordsmith hand-picked by Obama to translate the contents of his mind into mass-mobilizing prose. … Continued
We loved Four H‘s 3D animated Lego fashion film for Jean-Charles de Castelbajac so much (see our top 5 favorite online fashion films), we just had to add it to our collection of Chunks. We had an email chat with Four H’s charming creative director, Nicolas Cornet, to see if we could get to the … Continued
With Sundance drawing to a close, we had a little dig around for other events that can distract/inspire us as we wait for summer. Our findings reveal that there’s all sorts to look forward to between now and May, not least the following acronym-tastic selection (apologies for the Northern Euro-centric bias):
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles updates today with three main titles by one of Finland’s leading post-production studios Fake Graphics from Helsinki. For Swedish comedy 7 millionaires, Fake developed a 3D animated main title sequence around the theme of a board game with golden pawns that represent the different personality traits of each of … Continued
Hailed as the Inconvenient Truth for the U.S economy, I.O.U.S.A is a doom-ridden documentary about the rather unsettling $10 trillion national debt that is the result of decades of spending borrowed money by the federal government and its people. Dazzling infographics by Brian Oakes succeed in making this usually yawn-worthy topic quite gripping – but … Continued
If your Internet search history was exposed to the world, what would it say about you? I Love Alaska is the audio-visualization of three months of search queries by AOL user #711391. Combining a digital voice and soothing Alaskan nature shots, artist duo Lernert Engelberts and Sander Plug reveal the yearnings of a conflicted housewife … Continued
This sparkly music video for an Obamafied Daft Punk “Aerodynamic” mashup by Adam Freeland, is a fine one to shake celebratory booty to on this hope-and-change-fuelled day for humankind. Directed by the elusive duo at GOLD, the stop motion clip features an army of customized designer toys by the likes of Dalek, Bill McMullen and … Continued
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