April, 2012 Archive

Animation

Alphabetic

Ariel Costa takes us on a graphical journey from A-Z in his animation experiment, Alphabetic.

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN241: Town of Runners – Jerry Rothwell

It wasn’t until I’d invited documentary director Jerry Rothwell to discuss his latest feature Town of Runners that I realised I’d been a fan

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Music Video

Squarepusher: Dark Steering

“For a while I had apocalyptic nightmares about trails of nuclear missiles in the night sky. So I aimed to recreate that strange combination of

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Asides, Music Video

PushMethod: Scars and Stripes

New York director Matt Pizzano and PushMethod ramp up the political aggression with their anti-capitalism promo Scars and Stripes.

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Music Video

Bow Ribbons: Bells Ring

Elizabeth Wood’s promo for Bow Ribbons’ track Bells Ring shows that sometimes all you need for a successful music video is a girl in underwear and

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Documentary

Alive Inside: Clip of Henry

Throughout life I’ve used the question “What music are you into?” as a shorthand to check my compatibility with new acquaintances. Even if

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Animation

Oh, Super

Rumble Seat director Mike Roberts’ proves that even super heroes have to carry out the more mundane tasks of everyday life in his latest animated short

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Music Video

Big Dipper: Drip Drop

I know some of you had to face the trials and tribulations of a return to work today after the extended Easter weekend, so to let you know that all joy

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Art & Fashion, Asides, Documentary

Micro Empire | Macro Kingdom

Clemens Wirth’s microscopic and macro visuals are stunning to behold. Here we get to relish in a quartet of them set in the Micro Empire & Macro Kingdom.

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Music Video

Rhye: Open

Jennifer Nies directs this tender, uncompromising (NSFW) debut video for the band Rhye and their track Open. As debut videos go, they don’t come much

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Documentary

Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of life

Werner Herzog has never been a filmmaker to shy away from tackling tough subjects in his documentaries. Throughout his prolific career, his non-fiction work

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Art & Fashion

Essays On Reality: Chapter 1

Montreal based director Greg Barth brings us a new experimental series: Essays on reality is an ongoing series of short caricatures, Influenced by the

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