Subscribe to our bi-monthly newsletter to stay informed about new profiles. Profiles are in chronological order About Profiles is Submarine Channel’s ongoing series of short portraits of creative innovators who are breaking new ground in contemporary visual culture. From mini-docs to snappy Skype interviews, with Profiles your Submarine editors pick the brains of established and … Continued
Firestarters Files is a documentary series about exploring the changes in how mobile technology is being used across the world. For their fifth episode, they joined Submarine Channel’s Bruno Felix at last year’s Playgrounds Festival in Amsterdam, to discuss a little about how the festival has become an unmissable chance for studios, filmmakers and visual … Continued
The ever-growing collection of interactive maps as part of the You Are Here project is a thing of beauty. But more than just this, these are maps that can act as agents of social change. We spoke to the project’s initiator Sep Kamvar of the Social Computing Group at MIT Media Lab about how these maps tell their … Continued
We’ve all seen music videos produced in a documentary style but ‘Hidden Wounds’ is a whole new experience. Made by director Tomas Kaan and creative producer Arnold van Bruggen, it’s inspired by a dEUS song of the same name and it manages to creep under your skin like nothing else. We spoke to Tomas Kaan about the … Continued
One of the most fun and catchiest (in an artistically appropriate way, mind you) videos of last month was ‘Barkie’, a song taken off the new album from Dutch electronic four-piece De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig. Directed by Opslaan Als productions together with visual artist Thomas de Rijk, the 3D animated characters seem to come straight … Continued
Op-Docs, the short form opinionated documentaries that launched at The New York Times have officially gone deeper into multimedia journalism thanks to their latest collaboration with The National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Teaming up with Kat Cizek, the NFB’s Director of the multi-year and multi-collaborative Highrise project (including the Emmy-winning Out My Window), they … Continued
This is the third year we’re partnering with the Playgrounds Festival on the Amsterdam edition of the event. The 2013 line-up looks amazeballs! For those of you who don’t know what they’re missing, we’ve compiled this convenient list of videos interviews with speakers of previous editions. Most items were recorded at event locations Stadsschouwburg (2012) … Continued
Applause! Web documentary and Submarine’s fellow nominee ‘Alma’ won the 2013 Visa d’Or FRANCE 24-RFI Web Documentary Award. Well deserved! The jury also gave a special mention to web documentary ‘La Duce Vita’, created by Cyril Bérard and Samuel Picas, and co-produced by Darjeeling and LeMonde.fr. Good observation, this piece of art is definitely worth … Continued
Facebook much? Well, here’s an interactive music video that will make you re-think your relationship with the world wide web. Facehawk, directed by Rajeev Basu for Big Data, reflects on voyeurism in the digital age. Replicating the Facebook environment (but without actually posting on Facebook) the interactive promo serves as a reminder that it’s not … Continued
You might already have seen the latest interactive music video ‘Do Not Touch’ by artsy design studio Moniker, from Amsterdam. Because that thing is pretty viral by now. We did an interview with Roel Wouters from Moniker because who’d ever come up with crowd-sourced cursors?? Add your own cursor here.
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