This blindingly ugly website is the perfect setting for Trailers From Hell, an ever-growing collection of classic-era previews of the “It bites! It stings!” movie genre that are, more often than not, better than the films themselves. Grindhouse Gurus such as Joe Dante (Gremlins), Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead) and Alison Anders (The Fastest … Continued
Egyptian-Swedish creative hotshot and former graffiti hero Tarik Saleh, has kindly shared the first footage of his Kafka-esque animated feature Metropia on Youtube. Featuring the voices of Vincent Gallo and Juliette Lewis, the film takes place in a grim, futuristic Europe comprising a vast and scary web of inter-connected underground tunnels.
From the director of seminal geek culture documentary Helvetica (which we showed in 07 at our festival “Short Ride”), Objectified introduces us to the machinations of the oft-ignored backend of industrial design and production. Influential names like Marc Newson and Karim Rashid are set against the humble backdrop of toothbrushes, door-knobs, and other daily trifles, … Continued
Year of the Fish is a modern take on the Cinderella story set in a massage parlor in Chinatown, New York. Independent filmmaker David Kaplan has taken a low budget approach to rotoscoping. The film was shot on miniDV. Each frame was then converted to a high definition frame, processed and ‘artistified’ using Synthetiks painting … Continued
The Dutch city of Utrecht in the Netherlands is the home of the annual? Impakt festival (May 7 – 11, 2008). Lots of good stuff too see and experience at Impakt. (Of course, we’re terribly biased. SubmarineChannel was invited to partake in a panel). But even if you can’t visit the festival, you might want … Continued
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