More Michel Gondry breeding his DIY, home-crafted aesthetic: Be Kind Rewind site has Sweded home movie versions of blockbusters.
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Archive for February, 2008
Youtube Sweded
Classic: Red And Blue - Rock Opera Machinima
A capsule anti-war rock opera machinima by Andy Cobb, Red And Blue
Directed by Andy Cobb using the 3D engine Unreal Tournament 2004 to power the cinematics.
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Gondry's own video store
Like with previous feature The Science of Sleep, Michel Gondry has an accompanying installation project for Be Kind Rewind, recreating the video store from the film at the Deitch Projects gallery.
Those wanting to test their acting chops will be able to make their own cinematic odes in the gallery's back lot, which will feature a variety of movie sets. All videos made during the exhibition will be on view inside the gallery.
Akira goes West
More Akira news...
The graphic attractions of Destination Sex City
If like me you prefer to leave certain things to the imagination, favouring the erotic rather than the pornographic, then Destination Sex City is a DVD to check out.
A compilation of nine short erotic films that fuse animation, art, graphic design and pornography into a visual indulgence unlike any other. Stylishly designed and packaged to please the most discerning buyer/collector of haute pornography.
Wong Kar Wai burns up
Philips Aurea gets a dazzlingly oblique short by Wong Kar-Wai. I remember interviewing WKW behind his trademark dark glasses back in the Nineties at the ICA, London, he told me I was too young, I told him he was too stylistic (can you believe that?). Now both of us are wrong.
Virtual worlds are skinning the cinematic
The cinematic experience is invading virtual worlds. And in turn virtual worlds are starting to invade the cinematic. I'm starting to think about this increasingly after seeing Doug Gayeton's presentation when I was talking at at Short Ride a Fast Machine in Amsterdam.
Akira finally to be live?
According to Variety, Warner Bros. will turn anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo’s six-volume graphic novel masterwork Akira into two live action feature films, the first of which is being fast tracked for release in summer 2009.
WB, which had the Akira rights several years ago, only to let them lapse and then recapture them in a spirited bidding battle, is planning a twin-bill that the filmmakers have described as “Blade Runner” meets City of God.
Son of Rambow unspools soon
Long been a fan of Garth Jennings and the Hammer & Tongs brand of whimsy married with technical innovation. So it is great to see Son of Rambow, their first film which wasn't (while ready to go on this quirky pic, the guys got the offer to do Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which they couldn't turn down), gearing up for release. End of April/early May for UK and US.
Call for Entries: MuVi Programme Oberhausen
The 59th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen has an astounding range of shorts and a very cool music video programme (I had the pleasure of being on the jury for it last year). There's still time to enter your music video into the festival:
The MuVi International programme combines extraordinary music video productions from all over the world and is highly appreciated by the festival audience with around 1000 professional guests.
Deadline for entries is 5 March 2008.
