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 [...]
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Call for Entries: MuVi Programme Oberhausen
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. Final deadline is August 6, 2007.
Swerve Festival is a [...]
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 [...]
Music Vision CADS 2006 Awards
The Music Vision CADS 2006 Awards saw honours given to the most outstanding promo talents for the year. Highlights include Martin de Thurah as Best New Director, Daniel Levi for Best Urban Music Video, Chris Milk keeping up his strong awards-showings with Best International Video, and Dom & Nic winning Best Video of the Year [...]
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 [...]
res 10 rundown
Good to see some of my nominations made the final res 10 list in the latest res magazine. The full rundown:
Dougal Wilson (UK promo director)
Takagi Masakatsu (Japanese audiovisual artist, director/musician)
Martin de Thurah (Danish promo director)
Fluorescent Hill (Canadian directing collective)
Eclectic Method (UK VJ crew)
Impactist (US motion graphics duo)
Ghislain Poirier (Canadian DJ/producer)
Marina Zurkow (NY-based artist animator)
Nash [...]
Call for creators: plastic.tv video art
Couple of years ago, I did a test DVD, Flare, for an ambient visuals product. We had fun building a prototype but it was too early to market.
Now plastic.tv feels like it is at the right time to capitalize on this area. plastic.tv is a nifty niche video-on-demand portal for video art that plays [...]
Most innovative video game winner 2005
With two young children I have little time to play video games anymore, and this has definitely heightened my demand for quality over quantity in terms of gameplaying. Therefore in my list for Most innovative in video gaming 2005, I was definitely fixating on more evocative, and aesthetically pleasurable experiences, than the flow games I [...]
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 [...]
2005 from shortlists to winners
I finally finished the shortlists before the end of the year. No shortlists for MVP (Most valuable 2005 contribution from the above areas) or Breakthrough artist of the year categories necessary I feel as they may well come from those previously mentioned.
The New Year will see me make those difficult final choices.
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