Named after the prolific Swedish (thanks Marijn!) child adventuress Pippi Longstocking, conceptual Swiss lady Pipilotti Rist has developed a strong body of video artistry since creating Super 8-based show visuals for punk bands in the 1980s. The 1990s saw her develop a penchant for large-scale video installations, including the one that made her famous, “Pimple … Continued
The man (some say genius) behind Universal Everything, Matt Pyke has just released the deliciously-packaged, collectible DVD of his long running Advanced Beauty project. Allow us to fill you in: Simon Pyke, Freeform frontman (and brother of Matt) produced 18 crisp audio designs – ranging from the dramatic to the eerie to the downright dirty, while … Continued
Before cinema there was the zoetrope, an ungainly peephole-pocked cylinder that (sort of) creates the illusion of motion. Luckily for us technology happened, allowing London-based studio Troika to create a live, multi-sensory, digital zoetrope; a state-of-the-art cylindrical output tower from which abstract patterns magically transform into words when lit with the right frquency. Commissioned by … Continued
What is it with Germans and red balloons? Ballooon Project: Berlin is part of the Disposable Film Festival online program, and features a video camera (type: unkown) tied to a bunch of red balloons that is set free to capture scenes of a rainy Berlin from on high, while the filmmakers cycle around the city … Continued
Apparently there’s not one but four Lorenzo Fonda’s in Italy, and they’re all making stuff. The Lorenzo Fonda we interviewed is a young director who is passionate about skateboarding and who says he owes everything to it. Much like Mike Mills and Spike Jonze a generation before him, skating has a profound influence on his … Continued
In 2006, the Dutch VJ-DJ duo Drifter TV toured the Netherlands to promote their DVD release on the Submarine Channel DVD label. To celebrate, the guys from Drifter TV created a funky, new-and-improved VJ Machine, so you can be your own VJ. Thanks guys! The VJ Machine doesn’t work with some newer Flash versions. See … Continued
Pause – Freezing Music Video Culture is the first edition of our curated music video platform. Built in 2002, it was replaced by 2Pause in 2009. A spin-off of the Exploding Cinema 2002 program curated by Submarine founder Femke Wolting for the 31st International Film Festival Rotterdam, Pause is an online jukebox introducing the web … Continued
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