“Just how insanely eye-popping can one B-Grade film get?” That was the question posed by CGSociety for this year’s B-Movie CG Challenge. Design teams from all over the world competed for hardware and software prizes as well as the exposure with their home-concocted imaginary, freaky-amazing-shock-horror movie trailers and poster designs.
Well that was a long time coming! Spearheaded by the Hollywoodian anomaly of intelligence and grace that is Natalie Portman, MakingOf.com streams video from behind the glitzy scenes of movie-making, offers insider interviews with scary but nevertheless stratospherically successful Xenu warriors like Tom Cruise (as well as cool folk like Gondry), and a chance for … Continued
Did you know that in Japan the size of your Koi carp is directly indicative of the size of your willy? This and many more compelling pescarian factoids are revealed in Being A Fish in Japan, the sushilicious new web doc series we just dropped on our MiniMovies sista site. It’s a jaunty trip through … Continued
Shooting Back is a video resistance project in Palestine, which equips the youngsters of the occupied West Bank with cameras to document life in this sealed-off settlement of frustration, languor, and abuse at the hands of settlers and soldiers.
It’s crowd-sourced, inter-galactic buffoonery and you KNOW we like that! Have you always harboured a niggling suspicion that you can give George Lucas a run for his money? Now is the time to prove it! Log yourself in to Starwars Uncut, select one of the (rapidly depleting) 15-second Star Wars scenes still available and replicate … Continued
Hella-yeah! You, yes YOU! can download all our MiniMovies (that’s SubmarineChannel’s series of delightful digital documentaries for those in the don’t-know) to your smart mobile device, via iTunes! And as if that wasn’t enough excitement for one day, they are all FREE of charge. What’s not to like?
10 Years after 9-11. Time to revisit our eerie 2009 Minimovie Safety First, about “the art of flying since 9-11.” Six stories by six ordinary people, that illustrate just how close we all could potentially be to a stint at Gitmo in this age of panic, paranoia and the Patriot Act. Air travel just ain’t … Continued
I believe we just died and went to Heaven! David Lynch (swoon) is making a web documentary series (surely not!), with new episodes shot and broadcast daily (tell me more…), featuring zany real-life Lynchian characters (Heaven I tell thee!), shot over a 70-day road-trip (this much excitement cannot be healthy!) across the States and back. … Continued
Haha! This is très entertaining, you send in your crappy home video and Helsinki-based animators Anima Boutique add cheeky little characters known as The Guys, who like to stir things up some. If they’re not electrocuting unsuspecting hipsters, they’ll be off kissing honeymooning hotties or pinching innocent ladies’ bottoms. Every Monday a new episode is … Continued
Neighborhood Films is a collaborative collection of short, episodic online documentaries, collected by long-time San Francisco valet and film-maker Daniel Robin. The growing trove of cinema vérité micro-gems started as a personal project of Robin’s, as he shot some of the wacky characters who spiced up the many dull nights he spent valet-ing. Daniel opened … Continued
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