Ig Nobel Prizes – First Laugh, Then Think! Watch all 6 episodes at minimovies.org/documentaires/view/ignobel Pek van Andel, Willibrord Weijmar Schultz, Eduard Mooyaart and Ida Sabelis conducted the revolutionary experiment in which heterosexual couples made love in a MRI-scan. The IG Nobel Medicine prize in 2000 went to the Netherlands. Ig Nobel Prizes are the not-so-well-known … Continued
This is the trailer of the brand-new documentary “Ouwehoeren” by our big sister Submarine. Consider me biased, but it’s a great film about the Fokkens twins – two of the oldest gals working in Amsterdam’s red light district. Directed by Rob Schröder and Gabrielle Provaas.
Where better to ensure your dinner is still alive than the Fishing Restaurant where you can catch your own (FYI staff are on hand to disembowel)? Fish cruelty and fish devotion go hand-in-hand in this week’s featured Minimovie is Being a Fish in Japan (2010) by Mischa Kamp and Mascha Halberstad. Fish is an important … Continued
The French have always been a dab hand at cinematic gorgeousness, and now they’re paving the way in the wide world of web documentary too. Just spotted on ARTE’s Webdocs Twitter feed is Samuel Bollendorff’s (reportage photography badasss and genre pioneer) brand new, beautifully simple series of audio-visual testimonies addressing dignity and degradation around the … Continued
Here’s some inspiration for ya. Photo Booth Works‘ mini documentary (6 min.) about street artist, painter, illustrator David Shillinglaw. This man can paint, but he has a way with words too, “I find day-to-day, conversational poetry casts a warm light on an otherwise very calculated, systematic, clinical and scientific world.” Ooh, and did we mention … 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
They’re not exactly our cuppa, but since everybody’s buzzing about those pesky Oscars we couldn’t help noticing: it’s the second year running that IDFA’s Audience Award winner got Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary feature. Could it be that the Dutch public got it right yet again on Waste Land following their vote on The Cove which … Continued
When two punks from the Midwest made audio recordings of their neighbors’ irresistibly profane screaming matches upon moving to Frisco back in ’87, they inadvertently created one of the world’s first ‘viral’ sensations. Blessed with the misfortune of living next to a pair of raging alcoholics – one a flamboyant gay man and the other … Continued
Who knew the Philippines was home to a raging boobs’n’bazookas b-movie scene for budget-less American directors of the 1970s? YouTube aficionados may be familiar with the work of little Weng Weng, proud recipient of many millions of hits for his extreme smallness / devastating acting ability… Well, this is his natural habitat! Machete Maidens Unleashed! … Continued
Hollywood’s number one enemy and torrent source for the masses The Pirate Bay, has a Court of Appeal hearing coming up to contest the one-year prison sentence (and 4 million fine-bucks!!) of it’s founding fathers. One year in the slammer for some harmless file-sharing? We’re all over that appeal! But the reason we write: there’s … Continued
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