Schlagwort: video

I created „Playtime“ in 2010 as part of The Toronto Animated Image Society’s funded project to bring the Group 11 Painters alive with animation. My film was an homage to the life and art of Jock MacDonald. This film was created with paint and decayed frames of Hollywood trailers glued directly onto the surface of 35 mm film strips.
The creation process is detailed in my latest filmmaking manual, „Scratch, Crackle & Pop!“ ( http://ift.tt/2iZubWQ )

This is a documentary about Dannyboy.
A portrait about failure and disappointment.
He’s an artist but also an idiot.

A film by Simon Lynen
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Awards:

– Yotsuba special award, New chitose airport festival, 2016

Festival screenings:

– Animafest Zagreb, 2016
– Internationales Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart, 2016
– New Chitose Airport Festival, 2016
– Nederlands Filmfestival Utrecht, 2015
– Anima Brussels, 2017
– Hommage Bozar Brussels, 2016
– Nuit de l’animation Lille, 2016

‚Sweet Water‘ is a short film about some of the surfing that happens on the Canadian side of the Great Lakes.

Music by_ Ultimate Spinach
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Additional footage from Tania Dupon-Martinez and Jordan Groves

When it was released in 2013, Gravity was that rare case of a movie that was (generally) well received by public, critics and film scholars alike. Critics even wielded lofty terms such as „avant-garde“ and famous film scholars described it as an „experimental film“. High and nearly unanimous praise indeed.

But Gravity is also a movie of contradictions. It features state-of-the-art special effects that push the boundaries of film technology. Yet this high tech extravaganza also evokes early cinematic technology and experience. It is a film that focuses on bodily experience, taking us on a breathless ride with the (heavily breathing) Sandra Bullock. Yet in other ways this film denounces the human body and its autonomy.

Several years have passed since Gravity blasted off in cinemas, so maybe this is a good time to take another look at the movie and at what makes it remarkable. What is its importance in film (and even art) history? Did it herald a new way of filmmaking or did it harken back to earlier episodes of this art form? Those are the questions this video essay tries to address, along the way connecting Cuarón’s movie to abstract expressionist painting and computer chess.

Please visit www.filmscalpel.com for detailed credits.

This video was made solely for educational purposes and makes „fair use“ of copyrighted material. Fair use is codified at Section 107 of the Copyright Act: Under the fair use doctrine, it is not an infringement to use the copyrighted works of another in some circumstances, such as for commentary, criticism, news reporting, or educational use.

„Sonámbulo / The Sleepwalker“ is this week’s Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere. Read a Q&A with director Theodore Ushev here: http://ift.tt/2iI1Kgt

A surrealist journey through colours and shapes inspired by the poem Romance Sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca. Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.

A film by Theodore Ushev
Music by Kottarashky
Production: Les Productions Unité centrale / 9311-8990 Quebec Inc., Canada, 2015
Distribution: Bonobostudio (International), La Distributrice de films (Canada)

AWARDS
Special Jury Award, Animafest Zagreb 2015
Special Mention, Fest Anca 2015
Best Music Award, Animator Poznan 2015
Canadian Film Institute Honorable Mention for Best Canadian Animation, Ottawa International Animation Festival 2015
Special Mention, Multivision International Festival of Animated Arts 2015
Alva Costa Award for Best Short Film up to 5 Minutes, Cinanima Espinho 2015
Honorary Distinction, Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival 2015
Special Mention, Longue vue sur le court 2015
Special Mention, Sommets du cinema d’animation 2015
Best Short Animated Film Award, Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 2016
Special Prize, Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2016

MORE THAN 100 FESTIVAL SELECTIONS, INCLUDING:
Holland Animation Film Festival
Annecy International Animation Festival
Animafest Zagreb
Ottawa International Animation Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
DOK Leipzig
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival
Curtas Vila do Conde
IndieLisboa
Cinanima Espinho
Anima Mundi
Guanajuato International Film Festival
Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival
Vienna Independent Shorts
Melbourne International Animation Festival
ANIMATOR Poznan
Animatou Geneva
Anim’est Bucharest
Sapporo International Short Film Festival
Uppsala International Short Film Festival
Festival du nouveau cinéma Montréal
London International Animation Festival
Animateka Ljubljana
Anima Brussels
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film
Hiroshima International Animation Festival

More about the film: http://ift.tt/2iM7DM1

The latest documentary by Ivan Olita is a piece documenting the far reaches of the southern state of Oaxaca where, in the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into males and females. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call “muxes” – men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned limbo between the two genders.

Exclusively premiered on NOWNESS: http://ift.tt/2j0nEue
Featured on SHORT OF THE WEEK: http://ift.tt/2izbp8U

„Reflections“ is a 2D-animated film composed of approximately 1,100 individual drawings.
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What do our memories become? They are alive inside, even when the reality is dead.

The fleeting quality of love forces a girl to question if her relationship ever truly existed, or if it was all in her head.

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Directed, Animated, & Edited
MORGAN GRUER
http://morgangruer.com

Music
PEDR
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COLLEEN SCHIKOWSKI
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Girl
KIMI SADANAGA
Boy
ADAM HEISIG
Dancer
JENNY YOO

Special Thanks
KELLY DENATO

© 2016 Morgan Gruer
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY 11205

Story of a fifteen year old boy, who wants to overcome his acrophobia by making first parachute jump.
Director’s cut.

Directed by Philipp Yuyryev
Dop: Mikhail Khursevich
Creative producer: Ilya Povolozkiy
Executive producer: Pavel Sarychev
Sound: Nikita Gankin
Assistant director: Anton Zverev
Color: Artem Leonov

Cast:
Boy: Vlad Martynov
Coach: Vladimir Matrunich

Production: Blackchamber 2016

Private moments. Public toilets. #PracticeSafeTexts

Atlantic writer Vann R. Newkirk is about to be a father, and he’s nervous. America’s history of racial violence is something that every citizen inherits, but the consequences for black Americans remain acute. “One day I’m gonna look that boy in the eye and have to explain the same thing my father did to me, and his grandfather to him: This is who we are,” he says in this film. “This is the same America that killed Emmett Till, and the same place that gave us Jim Crow.” Now, it’s the country that elected Donald Trump to the presidency. In this animation, Newkirk reflects on his own childhood in the South and the lesson’s he’ll try to impart to his son. This has been adapted from Newkirk’s Atlantic essay, “This Is Who We Are.”