04.03.10

Alice In Wonderland (1903)

Are you excited for the new Alice In Wonderland by Tim Burton? I didn’t realise it has been over 100 years since the first version of Alice In Wonderland was made, back in 1903!

alice in wonderland 1903 first version film

You can now watch the film over at The Auteurs (a fantastic resource for all you cinephiles).

01.06.09

Ray Tintori / Death to the Tinman

Thank you to David and weloveyouso for putting me onto this fantastic short film by Ray Tintori. The 24 year old recently made a name for himself helming the spectacular video for MGMT’s Time to Pretend but before that he was making awesome short films in college! ENJOY.

death to the tinman ray tintori short film

View the film below!

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20.05.09

Wes Anderson Festival

For all you Wes Anderson fans – Alex Cornell created extensive promotional material for a hypothetical Wes Anderson Film Festival for his grad project. Posters, packaging, even a trailer.

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04.03.09

Patrick Tobin

Patrick Tobin loves polaroids! (me too)

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04.03.09

Kutiman remixes Youtube!

This is where you scream ‘why didn’t I think of this???’ and jump off a bridge! Israeli musician Kutiman has crafted an album entirely from Youtube clips, and it is nothing short of brilliant. Dj Shadow, Mike Realm and Pb Wolf look out. Thanks to Dutch for the heads up!

kutiman youtube remix mix thru you video dj

Watch the videos here: http://thru-you.com/#/videos/

29.01.09

Kris Moyes

Kris Moyes is quickly becoming one of the most exciting music video directors to come along in awhile. While none of his videos made it on my Best of 2008 list, they all seemed to have at least one section that got me hitting rewind over and over to analyze what he’d done. Head over to his site to get inspired! Make sure you watch his video for Beck, and his commercial for Cadbury is great too.

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28.01.09

Brazil / Title Sequence

I can’t believe I didn’t know about Art of the Title until now. It is a fantastic site chronicling film title sequences and, if you are into films at all, you will be stuck over there for awhile. I had to watch the titles from Brazil as it’s possibly my favourite film of all time (top three anyways), and when I did, I noticed something for the first time.

brazil terry gilliam art of the title intro sequence

Below is the sequence of frames that caught my eye – this perfectly illustrates the creativity present throughout the film. A man walks by a window and as he passes it the window explodes and instead of simply jump-cutting to the explosion there is a hand-painted animation of the man exploding for like 7 frames! I love stuff like this – going the extra mile to really sell the illusion in a low-budget/hand-made kinda way. Take a look:

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22.01.09

Greg Williams

Portraiture by Greg Williams, mainly from movie sets (kinda ties in nicely with our current project).

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