Check out this beautiful short snowboard movie. Paid for by Burn. Made by Actionhorse Films. Impressive stuff: Shooting backcountry action by electric, fire and moonlight.
Two years ago we could already enjoy the incredible effects made in Bollywood, but fortunately they developed their skills even more, as we can see in this hilarious compilation of Robot. Over the top is an understatement.
Videographer Andrew Wonder made this wonderful short documentary about urban explorer Steve Duncan. Follow the two men as they take a journey through the secret underground world of New York City.
Ever wondered what it takes to launch a shuttle. Well sit back and enjoy because Nasa monitored the whole experience in detail.
A group of crazy French people decided to do a graduation project. They already got noticed with their short ‘Salesman Pete‘ and one must say their style is astonishing.
Today at the IDFA I saw the intriguing documentary ‘Into Eternity‘ about the world’s first permanent repository for nuclear waste – underground in Finland – that must last 100,000 years. The implications and the dilemmas involved are fascinating. Shame there’s no HD trailer up because the cinematography by Heikki Färm is stunning.
Influencers, or influentials, are hot these days. The docu INFLUENCERS explores what it means to be an influencer and how creativity and trends become contagious. The 13 minute docu is a Poloraid snapshot, and shows New York creatives talking about those who are shaping todays pop culture.
The musical film ‘Runaway’ by Kanye debuted Saturday. Critics have described it as a “whole lotta nothin”, but if you look deeper you might be taken aback. The film tells the story of a phoenix (the beautiful Selita Ebanks) who falls to earth and lands at the front of a car. West then tries to introduce the phoenix to earth.
Earlier this month, the first Vimeo Festival + Awards were held in New York City. A diverse panel of judges chose the winners from more than 6,500 entries submitted from around the world in various categories.
Sarah Biermann, Torsten Strer, Felix Meyer and Pascal Monaco picked 35 of their favorite movies and tried to simplifly them as far as possible by creating a real basic motion graphics style together with the iconic music or sounds of each film. The outcome is a two minute journey through the history of film.
During the Dutch Film Festival (9/22 till 10/1) in Utrecht another small film festival will take place: The Dutch ONLINE Film Festival. On their YouTube channel you can vote for the best short (10 min.) online film of this year. Pool Worldwide and director Maikel van der Laken made the funny promotion video with dutch comedian Theo Maassen.
I’m oh so quiet because I’m on my way to Rabat, together with a marvelous crew and cast to shoot our debut feature film Rabat. To keep the Western front updated about our manoeuvres, we try to keep post on this very tiny blog.
Check out these very cool alternative poster designs for some classic movies. They’re made by Ibraheem Youssef a graphic designer from Toronto. I love the little story line hints in the designs and wonder why the big studio’s always go for the same layout.
No need to introduce Romain Gavras. No need to introduce Vincent Cassel. Can’t wait to see Gavras’ debut feature film Notre Jour Viendra (Our Day Will Come). If you don’t know who I’m talking about, hit Google. “Au cinéma le 15 septembre 2010″.
Highly entertaining and excellently executed trailer for Javazone. Just watch it…
Who didn’t grow up with them, and now they get there own movie by Sony Animation’s. In the 3-D live-action/animation hybrid feature, the Smurfs are kicked out of their world by Gargamel and end up in New York City. I am curious how this is going to look and if I like, love or hate it.
Very interesting documentary about the impact of social networks on society and government. An hour long but worth it.
For weeks now, I feel a lot of power. It must be this wrist-band I started to wear: it’s the same one as football hero Johan Neeskens used to have in the 70′s. And the same one Johan Primero is wearing (he’s constantly tweeting about it!) . It would be selfish to keep this power just for me. So if you want one, let me know and I sent you one (it’s designed by Penny Lee!).
A nice animation from the German director Andreas Hykade. It looks almost like an LSD trip. So if you want to enjoy this to the max, call your local dealer. It rocks!
The Raven is a great short movie by Ricardo de Montreuil. With only $5k budget he managed to create this part of a trilogy.
The website for my own movie (release date june 17) Johan Primero is created by Penny Lee of Dietwee. Don’t forget to check out Johan’s daily tweets to find out where he drives.
There is something funny and absurd about this trailer for 15 minute shortfilm AARGH. I don’t know anything about it other then the maker is Philip Hillers, student at German film school HFF Potsdam.
From Brighton: Terry Gilliam meets Bansky meets MC Escher, according to the Guardian! Weird stuff.
You can’t really argue with Ridley Scott. It’s not only the fact he’s ballin’, a ‘Sir’ and I’m neither. He just made some movies that make you shut up. Gladiator is high on my fav’s list. While reminding me of another fav, the trailer of his Robin Hood re-do tickles my curiousity. Just like in Cannes. In the same time the trailer raises a lot of questions, such as: “Why?”
If you haven’t seen their new video yet, you probably were on a 3 month sabbatical in Bhutan, but maybe haven’t read the story behind the making of this new video of OK Go. Six months working with rocket scientists, having lots of patience, paint and I guess….lots of passion.
From boomboxes to records. Here’s a ‘musicmentory’ to celebrate the age of vinyl records’. Director Jony Lyle seems to have interviewed too many key figures to name. Looks promising, does anyone have a release date?
Video art film expressing the key technologies behind the Nike 2010 World Cup football kit; Made from recycled plastic bottles! Made by Universal Everything.
Coming soon to the Dutch cinema-screens: the long awaited feature film of writer & director Johan Kramer! A film about Barca FC, an old car, strong coffee, love, sheep, butterflies and about winning and losing…
The Absolut Vodka commissioned Spike Jonze short film, mentioned earlier by Tino, is finally released online. It’s a love story between two robots, living and working in LA. Limited seats are available every day.
Very cool example of an interactive film where the audience interacts with the character in the movie.