June, 2011 Archive

Animation

Cutters | Play

I was totally blown away by Cutters from Turkish animator Ahmet Serif Yildirim, especially as I first took it to be a paper craft piece. However a scan through

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Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2011: My Brothers

Perhaps if Paul Fraser – writing partner of choice as far as Shane Meadows is concerned, having helped pen Dead Man’s Shoes, A Room for Romeo Brass and all

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Documentary

Marlowe

Beautifully realized documentary from ALCHEMYcreative “made to illustrate the impact of unique and emotional stories told by ordinary people. We explore

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Documentary

Everything is a Remix: Part 3

In part 3 of Everything is a Remix Kirby Ferguson takes a look at tech and how the best, improve on the good, to create the new: “Creativity isn’t

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Documentary

Countdown to Zero

Even if you don’t quite buy the American version of events, it’s hard to deny that the death of Osama bin Laden earlier this year was, to all intents and

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Steel Life – Mateusz Zdziebko & Patryk Kizny

Steel. Calm, cold, solid, rigid and unchanged. Life. Fast, emotional, harmful and responsive. Have you ever wondered what would the world look like if all

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Live Action

Fight the Foot

Is this teaser from Richard Krause the return of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Intrigued? Strange Kids Club tracked down director Richard Krause for a tell

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Documentary

Ball Of Light

When we spoke to the Pikapika team back in 2006, it was clear that light painting is one of those crafts that are easy to learn but hard to master (just take a

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Music Video

Throw your Stones

I couldn’t help but be reminded of David Fincher’s Se7en watching JonJai’s cleverly conceived video for Boxes track Throw Your Stones.

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Animation, Documentary

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus

Watch Patrick Clair’s excellent explaination of the Stuxnet virus and tell me that the marriage of motion graphics and data visualisation isn’t

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Animation

A Breeze from Mt. Parnassus

Simply described as a film about “A man discovers that he is weird”, CalArts student Vitaliy Strokous’ A Breeze from Mt. Parnassus feels

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Live Action

In the Shadow

Described as “a film noir with shadows,” Fabrice Mathieu’s In the Shadow (Dans l’ombre) tells the story of a a shadow forced to

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