Pause 2018 Motion Response – Lift in the moment by Carbon by Pause Fest


It’s confronting to step into the unknown. 
Reassurance or validation is sought from anywhere we can find it; at least for that bit confidence to move forward. Building on experiences, exploring new environments, adapting to the unfamiliar, all becomes part and parcel of progress.
But what if it all gets too much? Finding yourself and fitting in, compromise and keeping up?
Sometimes you just need to pull yourself out of it, appreciate the people around you, and enjoy every moment. Because life should be more uplifting. 

Creative Direction:  Tereza Tan
Storytelling: Zack Chua
Character Design:  Dou Cheng
2D Animation:  Jacky Lo, Dou Cheng
3D Animation:  Edward Chiu
Sound Design: Mount Audio

A Dream Dressed in Black by Dan Sadgrove


I often wonder what the world would look like if the ancient cultures of the past had survived repeated attempts to have their faiths banished from popular practise through colonisation.

Did the ancient Mexican culture die during the conquest by the Spaniards in the 16th century, and are the remaining indigenous populations simply fossils, condemned five hundred years ago to disappear because they have no place in the present? 


The liberty of the past, the golden age before colonial domination, is not a dead past lost forever, but the basis of hope. In the cycle of time that age will come again.

Director: Daniel Sadgrove
Cinematographer: Kenji Katori
Steadicam: Juan Matias Ramos
1st AC: Aura Gonzalez Salazar
Steadicam Asst: Tania Barajas
Camera DIT: Cristian Sanchez

Line Producer: Jesus Franco, Brenda Zamudio
1st PA: Lucy Suarez
2nd PA: Arturo Tamayo
Makeup: Eve Magnn
Runner: Maria Fernanda Flores

Cast
Trinidad Villaseñor, Edith Hernandez Ramos, Cristian ‘Chile’ Lopez, Ignacio Del Rio Ocegueda, Jose Mejia, Effy Betancourt, Gustavo Guerrero Lopez, Arturo Tamayo, Yadira Linda Mariscal Gracian, Miguel Angel Gaitan Alvarado, Daniel Osmar Guerrero López, Aldrich Guilleromo Ayron Marcial, Alan Eduardo Gomez Chavez, Marco del Rio Ayon Marcial, Angel Ayohualli Gaitan M. & Jose Alejandro Juarez A.

Editor: Grason Caldwell ℅ Parallax Post
Color: Kath Raisch ℅ Company 3
Music: Lorn ℅ Wednesday Sound
Sound: Kinsey Green
VO (Nahuatl): Ana Gabriela Reus
VO (English): Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Special thanks
Lucy Suarez, Cristian ‘Chile’ Lopez, Benjamin Suarez, Ihxel Pérez, Storm Richardson, Nick Fuller, Debbie De Le Ceuva Jewellry , Nathalie Mignot, Pacha Mama Boutique, Casa de Linda, Gabriel Jones, Wendy Jones, Casa Vecino, Lucy Mejia, Jose Mejia, La Esperanza Restaurant, The Lift Mexico, Spencer Harris, Esteban Ponce, Angela Herrera, EFD International, Christopher Hewitt, Luke Lynch, Paul Rogers & Hugo.

Recommended Reading

México Profundo: Reclaiming A Civilization by Guillermo Bonfil Batalla
Aztec by Gary Jennings
Exodus Lost by S.C. Compton

Filmed in and near Sayulita, Mexico.

THE FLATS by Jake Oleson


Shot in the Cape Flats of Cape Town, South Africa over the course of three days.

director: jake oleson
director of photography: matthew ballard
producer: wilhelm furst
production manager: godfrey matsika

editor: jake oleson
sound design: bobb barito
colorist: josh bohosky
post: the mill

music:
andy stott, toys, jonny greenwood

shot on 16mm film

special thanks:
kodak, liam johnson, robot.tv, peter soto, media film service, jacqueline stone, darwees bam, marwha bam, mimoena scholz, sebastien, michael marantz, charles frank, and ien chi

Portrait of the Expedition 54 Crew on the Space Station

Portrait of the Expedition 54 Crew on the Space Station The six-member Expedition 54 crew poses for a lighthearted crew portrait inside the Japanese Kibo laboratory module on Feb. 18, 2018. Three of the crew members are packed up and prepared to return to Earth today, Tuesday, Feb. 27. via NASA http://ift.tt/2HPTerZ

Secret for the mad – Dodie (Official Music Video) by Hannah Jacobs


An animated adventure with kites.

Official music video for Dodie 2018. See more from Dodie: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKVfKr96Ifr3Dnhb6mhDAdw

Directed and animated by Hannah Jacobs
Additional Animation by Flora Caulton and Katy Wang
Produced by Sammy Paul

The Ricochet Splendid by 2veinte


The Ricochet Splendid

Our new non commercial project:
In an uncertain future, a group of crazy and less than obedience squad, fight the great war.
This group of misfits uses humor to get along the hard life of a soldier. In spite of the constant teasing, this fraternity look up to each other in hard time.

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Directed & done by … 2veinte
Creative Director … Pablo Gostanian
Executive producer … Agustin Valcarenghi
Animation Director … Diego Polieri
Art Direction … Pablo Gostanian, Diego Polieri
Lead Cel Animation … Diego Polieri, Fernando Toninello, Juan Nadalino, Israel Giampiero
Additional Animation … Patricio Plaza, Martin Gil, Julian Fumagalli
Cel Animation Assist … Yazmin Hanna, Denise Cirone, Diego Fracchia, Ivan Greco
Addicional Clean up … Facundo Garcia, Agostina Salvemini, Nahuel Sagarnaga
Idea … Pablo Gostanian
Characters design …. Diego Polieri
Story … Pablo Gostanian, Diego Polieri, Melisa Farina
Composition … Daniel di Paola, Mateo Vallejo
Edition … Pablo Gostanian, Diego Polieri
Production … Carolina L’avena
3D Animation …. Mateo Vallejo
Illustration … Diego Polieri, Nahuel Sagarnaga, Patricio Delpeche
Additional Illustration … Santiago Villa
Robots Design … Delfina Perez
Additional AE animation … Daniel Di Paola
Original Music … Thomas Richard Christensen
Ending Credits Music … Sergio Denis – “Un poco loco”

The Ricochet Splendid belongs to 2veinte, all rights reserved 2017, 2018.

Being Human With the Dog Photographer by Great Big Story


Welcome to Wegman’s Wild World of Weimaraners, where dogs bake cakes and lounge like royalty. Known to the world as the “dog photographer,” William Wegman has spent the past 45 years dressing and posing his canine muses in elaborate ensembles, finding whimsy in the absurd. His work is at measures droll and enchanting, evoking awe in audiences around the world. And, his pups have had their share of the limelight, making appearances on everything from “Saturday Night Live” and “Sesame Street,” to movies and galleries worldwide.

NEBULA by Marcin Nowrotek


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NEBULA is an experiment that aims at finding the link between two trends that develop simultaneously in the history of film – Lumières concept of a movie as a record of reality and Méliés’s idea that uses the film as a tool for creation of imaginative worlds. NEBULA draws from both of these approaches and becomes a combination, collage, in which the recorded figurative picture is intermingled with abstract compositions being the graphic equivalent of music. The project using the volumetric filmmaking technique (RGB+D) is, on the one hand, the recording of an event (a meeting of musicians playing a jazz composition “Sleepwalker” by Maciej Obara) and, on the other, an attempt to obtain the visual experience of music by using the soundtrack of a recorded piece of music at the stage of post-production. The picture created as a result of the recording represents the “Lumières line” that aims at reflecting the reality in the most accurate way. Musical layer that has its sources also in the recording becomes a tool for creation of abstract visual compositions that does not bear traits of reality (Méliés’s line). These two approaches are combined into an audio visual form resembling a video clip.
The aim of this project, besides examining the links between record and creation based on non-figurative forms, is also the exploration of the new volumetric filmmaking technique (picture recorded by a Kinect sensor).

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NEBULA to rodzaj eksperymentu, będącego próbą znalezienia punktu wspólnego między dwiema równolegle rozwijającymi się tendencjami w historii filmu – lumièrowską koncepcją filmu jako rejestracji rzeczywistości a mélièsowską filozofią wykorzystującą medium filmowe jako narzędzie do kreowania fantazyjnych światów. NEBULA czerpie z obu tych postaw i staje się swoistym połączeniem, kolażem, w którym zarejestrowany obraz figuratywny przeplata się z kompozycjami abstrakcyjnymi, które są graficznym ekwiwalentem muzyki. Projekt, wykorzystując technikę filmowania wolumetrycznego (RGB+D), jest z jednej strony rejestracją wydarzenia – spotkania muzyków grających jazzową kompozycję “Sleepwalker” autorstwa Macieja Obary, z drugiej zaś – poprzez użycie na etapie postprodukcji ścieżki dźwiękowej zarejestrowanego utworu – próbą uzyskania wizualnego doświadczenia muzyki. Obraz powstały w wyniku rejestracji reprezentuje „linię lumièreowską”, skupiającą się na jak najwierniejszym oddaniu rzeczywistości. Warstwa muzyczna (mająca swe źródła również w rejestracji) staje się natomiast narzędziem do tworzenia abstrakcyjnych kompozycji wizualnych, nienoszących znamion reprezentacji rzeczywistości (“linia mélièsowska”).
Obie te wartości połączone zostały w audiowizualną formę przypominającą teledysk.

Po za badaniem punktów stycznych rejestracji i kreacji, opartej na formach niefiguratywnych, celem projektu była również eksploracja nowego medium jakim jest technika filmowania wolumetrycznego, czyli obrazu zarejestrowanego na pomocą sensora Kinect.