Just read Michelangelo Antonioni has died aged 94 on the same day as another cinematic great, Ingmar Bergman, aged 89. A dark day for 'intellectual cinema' as the NYT has it. Where has the cinema for the cineastes gone?
I had the pleasure of listening to Antonioni at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival for one of his later films, Beyond the Clouds, with John Malkovich.
Archive for July, 2007
Night falls on the Maestros
Swerve, be ahead of the curve
The new Fuel TV-backed Swerve Festival is seeking innovative narrative and documentary short and feature films, animation, design films and music videos. Audience and Jury awards will be given in multiple categories. Films must have premiered after January 1, 2006 to be eligible.
Hoogerbrugge, actionscript auteur
I've just recently completed an essay to be included in the upcoming monograph Modern Living: The Graphic Universe of Han Hoogerbrugge, a book on this pioneering flash animator's work. The book will be published later this year through BIS Publishers in cooperation with SubmarineChannel.
It's given me a chance to reengage and fully explore Hoogerbrugge's work again, as I haven't been in contact with him since writing my contributions for the On Air: MTV book.
Tetsuya Mizuguchi to reimagine Tokyo
Lumines and Rez's Tetsuya Mizuguchi decides to build a re-imagined Tokyo for the denizens of Linden Labs' mammoth world.
Tetsuya Mizuguchi to build Virtual Tokyo in Second Life [via Joystiq]
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Kanye West looks East
Black Rain meets Akira in Kanye West's latest promo.
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