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
Episode 4 of our interactive documentary Unspeak looks at how hackers and vast media conglomerates disguise their true intentions to create a brave new world. Unspeak terms discussed: Big data Digital Rights Management File sharing Intelligent design Like button Paywall Piracy Reform Smartphone Social network The Cloud User Generated Content Viral UNSPEAK is an interactive … Continued
Next edition: 20 June 2013, 7.30 pm UNSPEAK – Words Are Weapons, a preview of the upcoming iDoc Special guest: Steven Poole, Moderator: Chris Keulemans Buy tickets online at EYE (Dutch | English) Based on British journalist Steven Poole’s intriguing book of the same name, Unspeak is a brand-new interactive documentary series by Submarine Channel … Continued
Ig Nobel Prizes – First Laugh, Then Think! Watch all 6 episodes at minimovies.org/documentaires/view/ignobel Pek van Andel, Willibrord Weijmar Schultz, Eduard Mooyaart and Ida Sabelis conducted the revolutionary experiment in which heterosexual couples made love in a MRI-scan. The IG Nobel Medicine prize in 2000 went to the Netherlands. Ig Nobel Prizes are the not-so-well-known … Continued
Winner of Best Animated Short Film at the Academy Awards 2012 We’re exited to bring you our review of the brand-new interactive book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lesmore. Design and animation is done by ex-Pixar designer William Joyce, also known from Toy Story and A Bugs Life. Morris Lessmore is a humorous … Continued
Where better to ensure your dinner is still alive than the Fishing Restaurant where you can catch your own (FYI staff are on hand to disembowel)? Fish cruelty and fish devotion go hand-in-hand in this week’s featured Minimovie is Being a Fish in Japan (2010) by Mischa Kamp and Mascha Halberstad. Fish is an important … Continued
The Digital Emmy that nearly had us with Collapsus finally went to the splendid Lebanese web drama Shankaboot. It’s about as far-removed from Collapsus as it’s possible to be: a straight-up series of live action micro-stories that follow the daily misadventures of courier/dreamboat Sleiman as he zips around Beirut on his Vespa.
The French have always been a dab hand at cinematic gorgeousness, and now they’re paving the way in the wide world of web documentary too. Just spotted on ARTE’s Webdocs Twitter feed is Samuel Bollendorff’s (reportage photography badasss and genre pioneer) brand new, beautifully simple series of audio-visual testimonies addressing dignity and degradation around the … Continued
Well if this isn’t cause for celebration, our name’s Aunt Fanny! Our very first MiniMovies, a spectacular documentary shot entirely in the virtual universe about a missing Californian male called Molotov Alva who shows up in Second Life, has been selected for The Animation Show of Shows by Acme Filmworks as one of – and … Continued
Way back when film was recorded on tape and digital avant-garde alluded to a Casio calculator watch, a French luminary called Michel Auder started filming his life and his surroundings with his Sony Portapack. Being French and poetic he soon found himself hobnobbing with the likes of Philip Glass and Andy Warhol, and finally filtered … Continued
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