Kanye West's latest visual hijinks: unapproved video remixes of arthouse favourites as instant quality music videos for Graduation. Wong Kar Wai's 2046, and mainly footage from the BUF produced future city images of the melancholic sci-fier are utilised.
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I have a nice stash of chip music in my iTunes folder, and have long been an enthusiast of the 8-bit aesthetic - the crude music and graphics of retro-gaming - so Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet is a documentary recently shown at SXSW 2008 which is simply a must-see. I've already included some of this scene in a screenplay, so this doc has just made it onto my essential research list.
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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.
The first couple of episodes of Ben Hibon's animations to accompany PS3 videogame, Heavenly Sword, are here and here. I had to meet this French director after I'd checked out his previous, award-winning, Codehunters, and we talked about this project he was working on. Nice to see it coming to fruition finally.
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.
Black Rain meets Akira in Kanye West's latest promo.
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Codehunters by Ben Hibon of stateless films is an astonishing capsule animé film by the UK-based director, aided by Glasgow-based Axis Animation. Reminds me of the work of Koji Morimoto, and fuses the best of East and West animated styles. Fluid, desaturated visuals complement a brief glimpse of an intense dystopic vision.
We are the Strange has been picked as one of the Sundance Festival's Midnight Movies. An animated feature film by M dot Strange it is an insane melange of animated styles, from machinima, anime, to 8-bit sprite mayhem.
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Missed this when it was initially aired on BBC Four, Tetris, From Russia with Love is an inventive documentary on the machinations and intrigues surrounding one of the world's most inventive and addictive videogames. [via kottke.org]
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