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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Tekkon Kinkreet soars into view
The trailer is out for Tekkon Kinkreet, an astounding feature long in development (I remember programming the European debut of the original pilot featurette at an early onedotzero film festival). The pilot was originally directed by Koji Morimoto, but Michael Arias has taken over directing duties on this one for Studio 4°C. Michael was really [...]
Cinema 2.0 vote
A Swarm of Angels is having its first voting day, as we ramp up the participation in the project and near the current 1000 member target.
Summer has seen a lot of behind the scenes work in terms of project evolution and media production. And we’ve made our first event bookings, doing a Remixing Cinema presentation [...]
Clouds over Dayton/Faris Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine is the debut feature from U.S. music video A-list helmers Jonathan Faris and Valerie Dayton. While the feature hasn’t crossed the Atlantic yet (although it is playing at Edinburgh Film Festival’s Mirrorball strand), so I haven’t seen it play out, the trailer sent the metaphorical alarm bells ringing in my head.
Trailer plays [...]
Cinema 2.0 - A Swarm of Angels
Posting activity has dropped off considerably apart from short ‘Glances’ bookmarking for a reason. I’ve been working hard on a ’stealth’ project, which I have just given a web launch:
Recent press: BoingBoing
A Swarm of Angels // Remixing cinema
A Swarm of Angels reinvents the Hollywood model of filmmaking to create cult cinema for the Internet era.
We [...]
Best digital film 2005 Winner
My winner for Best digital film of 2005 was a close call between Immortel and Sin City.
I love the mix of virtual actors (vactors!) using machinima-like animation with photoreal settings in Immortel, and the awesome art direction and take on an alternate Manhattan. But in the end the stylistic impact of Sin City wins [...]
Best digital films of 2005
Having immersed myself in visual effects advancements for the Sci-Fi Moviescapes book, I was impressed this year saw an amazing variety of digital films from the subtle to the all-out showy. So I’ve got six rather than five nominees.
Best digital films of 2005:
2046
Appleseed
King Kong
Immortel
Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2
Sin City
Winner announced after all the shortlists.
Best moving image of 2005 shortlisting
I’ve finally drawn up final categories and shortlist for the ‘advanced moving image’ that I think has been the most exciting for the year. In hindsight I should have done the shortlist first. But the comments on this post helped coalesce things and bring it down to a neat ten listing: ‘Deciding the best [...]
Deciding the best moving image of 2005
I’m preparing an unscientific list of the best moving image of the year. The criteria being impact, innovation, inventiveness and all-round visual awesomeness. It might help if it has a clever, or at least a capsule narrative, too!
I am often accused of having an over-analytical nature, and to confirm this I’m first musing on the [...]
Kaze: Ghost Warrior
Albee quit as an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation to go live in a cabin in the wilderness of Alaska. Here he created the animation he’d been wanting to make for years, and he did it alone, on two PC workstations.
He wanted to prove he could make an animated feature for $10 [...]
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