Film festivals, once the glamorous, red-carpet domain of exclusive, silverscreen show-casery, are starting to innovate in the ways they communicate with their increasingly diverse audiences. As the digital era takes hold, festivals serve not only to celebrate the movie medium, but also to produce their own audio-visual content through promos, contests and wacky side projects … Continued
The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a steampunk opus (ya know, paper and print) which embraces multimedia snippification (you heard that here first!), spilling out into video, audio and an online gallery. It tells the tale of Harold Winslow, imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin (we’d give anything to hitch a ride on one of … Continued
Beautiful poetic visuals created by three of Hornet’s directors for a unique one-night only concert of The Decemberists: ‘Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized’. Directors Peter Sluszka, Guilherme Marcondes, and Santa Maria, along with a fourth director Julia Pott created backdrop visuals for each of the four sections of the album. This … Continued
If you were wondering what Spike Jonze‘s been up to lately – this is it! His latest movie, Where the Wild Things Are (due out in October 2009) “represents years of work from hundreds of different artists”, it says on the movie’s inspirational blog We Love You So. Jonze’s latest movie project is an adaptation … Continued
Minus the chintzy – but unavoidable – Disney credit screen, the trailer for Tron Legacy (cinema release some time in 2010), is quite delightful, with speedy superbikes leaving neon trails, hyper-crisp special fx, whizzing noises and, well… that’s about it! But what we’re most excited about is the original film score by none other than … Continued
The cut-throat world of East Coast / West Coast Street Fighter IV warfare is exposed in this gripping documentary by first-time filmmaker Ian Cofino. The testosterone-fuelled hooligeekism (you heard it HERE first!) of head-to-head fighter gaming is as competitive and ruthless as any team sport you care to mention.
Eternal youth! War-mongering wizards! Sexual potency at the click of a mouse! We’re talking about virtual worlds. You know, Second Life, World of Warcraft, Sally’s Spa? Over 70 million people now spend time in a virtual world each and every day. 70 million! would rather hang out with avatars in a darkened room, than with … Continued
Get heaps talent, add a unique hybrid of skills, and a sprinkling of inherent splendidness, and what have you got: the visual delicacy that is this mini-trailer for work-in-progress interactive web documentary Boomtown Babylon. The art-tech heroes at Champagne Valentine and Mulato repurposed a heap of timelapsed chaos footage with a whole lotta 3D Studio … Continued
Known and loved for their long-standing line in ground-breaking vector art, Bangkok / Baltimore-based collective YouWorkForThem have been at the helm of the design radar for like, ever, having hit the scene with aplomb way back in 2001. They recently released a sumptuous abstract animated short known as The Interpretation.
Did you know that the most memorable scene from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, in which Travolta injects adrenaline into the heart of a woman who overdosed, is based on a true story? It happened to Steven Prince. In ’78, Martin Scorsese made a movie about his friend, Prince, whose life was more fascinating than what any … Continued
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