Since 1979, renegade photographer Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to capturing the mutating subcultures of New York’s Lower East Side. Recently released documentary Captured, weaves together his unique footage – from the gangster kids who brought us graffiti, to CBGBs, the legendary home of punk, to the Starbucks and Ed Hardy homogeny that now … Continued
Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator is a documentary shot entirely in Second Life. After a viral start on the net, the American network HBO acquired the TV rights for the US for this SubmarineChannel production. It is amazing to see how a story about a California guy named Molotov Alva, who leaves … Continued
It was a happy coincidence when sometime mid 2006 Karin Fong visited the Submarine Channel headquarters in Amsterdam, just as we were launching a new web project dedicated to the art of film title design named ‘Forget the Film, Watch the Titles’. Karin Fong is a creative director and title designer at Imaginary Forces … Continued
One of the surprises at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2006 was a documentary that explored the many different styles of global graffiti-based visual art called “NEXT, a Primer on Urban Painting”. The director, Pablo Aravena, spent several years travelling to all the hotspots of the world where this subculture is thriving, filming the artists on … Continued
Han Hoogerbrugge’s internet adventure started at the end of the 1990’s, when the artist and illustrator downloads a GIF-animation program. He dropped some images into it and, voila, his first animation. His online hit GIF animation series Modern Living/Neurotica followed soon after. In the early 00’s, Submarine Channel commissioned Hoogerbrugge to create an animated series. This … Continued
Submarine Channel and Fons Schiedon go way back. Did you know that he animated the very first interactive animation on SubmarineChannel: ‘The Killer’? And when the channel needed a new look with enhanced features we called upon him again to wield his uber-talented skills and give us an extreme make-over, FonzTV style. Fons also worked … Continued
Daniel Rabinowitz was one of the first filmmakers to come up with an authentic, personal vision of documentary storytelling for the web. His project is Neighborhoodfilms.com and it works like this: filmmakers from all over the world are invited to give the internet viewer an intimate look at their neighborhoods and the stories of the … Continued
Craig Robinson has brought a lot of goodness to the web. He is one of those people whose life gradually became more and more entangled with a personal web project. Craigh’s own sparkling little universe is flipflopflyin.com, where he hosts his many creations: Batman & Robinson, Pete & Bob and the ever so popular (and … Continued
Motomichi is an artist from Brooklyn, NY, whose Japanese roots still echo through in his character designs. He makes animations, flash games, paintings and he performs as a VJ. All his work is populated with meticulously designed creatures, each one with their own distinct personality. Like the Three Rices, Herman, Gomez, and Coco Rico. His … Continued
The Tulse Luper Journey is SubmarineChannel’s online multiplayer game based on the adventures of Tulse Luper, a character created by film director/renaissance artist Peter Greenaway. A lot of people have been working for more than three years to create a unique online experience that has all the qualities of an alternate reality game. New sub-games … Continued
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