March 30th 2011 Posted at Documentary, Inspiration
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Werner Herzog is one of my favourite filmmakers. He has recently directed Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a documentary about the Chauvet Cave in France, that contains the earliest known cave paintings and other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. The film was released in the UK last Friday, I’m impatient to watch it!
More info about the production on Herzog’s website HERE.
Check the trailer:
February 17th 2011 Posted at Behind-the-scenes, Inspiration, Resources
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If you are, like myself, a lover of Hitchcock’s films, here’s a treasury of delight for you: the Hitchcock and Truffaut audio tapes (1962) that were the base to Truffaut’s famous book Hitchcock: A definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock. You can find them HERE.
Thanks for this invaluable hint, Dave!
December 1st 2010 Posted at Documentary, Film History, Inspiration
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Yesterday I watched the BBC documentary about Muybridge I told you about on my previous post. It was very interesting, a good complement to the Tate exhibition. You can now watch it on BBC iPlayer HERE.
Available until 11:34pm Tue, 28 Dec 2010
Duration: 60 minutes
November 30th 2010 Posted at Documentary, Film History, Inspiration
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Did anyone of you had the opportunity to visit the magnificent Muybridge exhibition at Tate Britain?
Muybridge’s innovative work in capturing motion through a series of photographs was a milestone on the road to motion pictures. In fact, he is often called the Father of the Motion Picture.
Tonight there’s a documentary on the BBC about his life and achievements.
10.35pm Tuesday 30 November on BBC ONE: Imagine – The Weird World Of Eadweard Muybridge
November 17th 2010 Posted at Animation, Inspiration, Short film
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October 21st 2010 Posted at Documentary, Inspiration
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Check out this list of the top 10 documentaries that shook the world. Have you seen them all?
October 12th 2010 Posted at Cross-Media, Industry News, Inspiration
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Power to the Pixel: The Cross-Media Forum in association with the BFI London Film Festival, 12 – 15 October 2010
Be part of the Cross-Media Forum without buying a ticket, in fact without leaving your computer! Watch the presentations online as they happen live and enjoy the full day of talks – click HERE.
How do the new ways that audiences are accessing and interacting with media change the way that stories are told, delivered and shared? How can powerful new tools and applications enable content creators – writers, directors, producers - to reach far greater and diverse audiences? What are the new business and rights models that are emerging? Who are the new stakeholders, financiers and partners of cross-media stories?
Power to the Pixel presents a day of keynotes, candid case studies and presentations from an array of world-class experts who are working at the vanguard of cross-media content creation, production and finance.
September 21st 2010 Posted at Animation, Inspiration, Short film
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At the University of California, Berkley, Professor Daniel Fletcher and his team had an idea that now helps to save lives. They took a microscope, a Nokia N95, and put them together. They call it the CellScope. A super-portable microscope imaging device, perfect for diagnosing diseases in remote areas in developing world countries. Images of cell samples can be captured then sent by MMS anywhere in the world for instant analysis. With the CellScope it is possible for a doctor in the middle of nowhere to screen for infectious diseases.
The CellScope was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science at Aardman Animation Studios. It stars a 9mm girl called Dot as she struggles through a microscopic world. All the minuscule detail was shot using CellScope technology and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics.
Brilliant. ENJOY!
And here is the making of (Aardman Animation Studios):
Found at Laughing Squid.
September 16th 2010 Posted at Documentary, Inspiration
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Check HERE this delightful and exhilarating trailer.
Ping Pong is a feature documentary project about pensioners from across the globe that compete in the World over-80s Table Tennis Championships. A proof that the real youth is in the spirit of the person, not the joints. Ping Pong was presented at the Good Pitch last week.
ENJOY!
September 9th 2010 Posted at Documentary, Inspiration, Short film
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Amazing documentary short film about NYC.
“The Beat of New York” was an impromptu recording made by Tim Hahne and Thomas Noesner of a drum session in the subway after they were done filming a Mercedes shoot.
Enjoy!
THE BEAT OF NEW YORK from tim hahne on Vimeo.
“Thomas Noesner, our DoP, was in New York for a shoot of the new Mercedes R-Class. Right after the job, he took his camera and strolled through the busting streets of „The City“. While screening the pictures of a drummer in the tube station, I had the idea of creating a „remix“ of the recorded drum sequence to use it as a soundtrack for the film. That´s when our sounddesigner Toussaint came into play… We composed a track around the drum beat of this guy. Watch and listen to the beat of New York!”
Found at MUBI/GARAGE.
More info: stereoscreen.de and thomasnoesner.com
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