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L' Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat (1895) 2008-03-11 16:38:05 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat shows a steam train arriving at a station and moving towards the camera.It has passed into film folklore for the incident that occurred at its world premiere, when the audience, unfamiliar with the cinema thought the train was really coming right at them and panicked!This short film is generally considered to be the "first motion picture" in modern history because the illusion of reality was achieved without much difficulty and the dramatic resources of depth of field are exploited. The train thrusts itself towards the camera creating a dynamic close-up.The development of mass spectatorship was the main factor in the growing popularity of film. This not only allowed for the development of a profitable business but also moved the centre of attention from the
A Standardized Way Of Expressing Emotional Connection 2008-03-11 11:34:53 Amir Fallah founded Beautiful/Decay as a black and white, hand-photocopied “zine” while still in high school. Along with business partners Fubz and Ben Osher, Fallah has transformed B/D into an internationally distributed publication with a circulation of over 40,000 readers in less than ten years. As the Creative Director of B/D, Amir has molded the magazine into one of today's most well-respected and reputable independent publications.
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Zero or One 2008-03-11 03:42:09 Andrea Scopetta. He created, in 2001, together with Alessandro Rak, the animation studio Rak&Scop. They created Ark (Grifo Edizioni), Petrolio (Lavieri) and Zero Or One(Lavieri). Scopetta also drew Fujiko o Margot (Lupin III Millennium, Kappa Edizioni )
Anemic Cinema (1926) 2008-03-10 16:42:02 Duchamp used the initial payment on his inheritance to make Anemic Cinema
and to go into the art business (Calvin Tomkins). The film was shot in Man Ray's studio with the help of cinematographer Marc Allégret. Various versions were made in 1920, 1923 and eventually in 1926.This is the only film directed by French artist Marcel Duchamp, whose name is associated with the Dada and Surrealism movements. As with similar avantgarde works made by Man Ray, Hans Richter or Fernand Léger, there's no plot, only moving shapes and objects, in an attempt to deny the vision of art as contemplation and ecstasy. This characteristically dada film by Marcel Duchamp consists of a series of visual and verbal puns with nonsense phrases inscribed around rotating spiral patterns, creating an almost hypnotic eff
Downtown 20 2008-03-10 16:37:06 Francesca Galliani. Her last exhibitions:Luxardo Gallery, RomaUp to the sky 2, photo festival, MilanoLEVI'S Project - Triennale, MilanoIl Torchio contemporary art gallery, MilanoDuplex Art Gallery, Genova
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Night on Bald Mountain (1933) 2008-03-10 16:36:37 In 1933, Alexandre Alexeieff invented the pinscreen method of animation, a tecnique which consists of a white screen pierced by hundreds of thousands of pins that can slide back and forth, each in its own hole.After two years of work, Alexeïeff, with the help of his wife Claire Parker, completed Night
on Bald Mountain
. This short animation is based on Noch' na lïsoy gore (Night on Bald Mountain), a fantasy for orchestra composed by Modest Mussorgsky and arranged by Rimsky Korsakoff. The piece is performed by The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert Coates.Another inspiration for this work was the pointillism of Seurat. Alexeieff, in his work, combinined sensibilities at once surrealist and classical, ancient and modern.Night on Bald Mountain has much affinity to Walt Disney's e
Lackadaisy 2008-03-10 06:11:03 Tracy J. Butler. You can read his webcomics Lackadaisy
My Architect (2003) 2008-03-09 15:12:54 In A Son's Journey, Nathaniel Kahn examines the life and career of his father, Philadelphia architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974), whose work included the Salk Institute and the Parliament and Capitol Buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh, before dying of a heart attack in a Penn Station bathroom in 1974, unidentified (it took three days before someone claimed his body) and broke despite having been one of the century's most influential architects.Louis I. Kahn's obituary listed his survivors as a wife and daughter. But the list was incomplete because Louis I. Kahn also led three different personal lives, with three different families, fathering a daughter with his wife, and a child each by two other lovers.The film was made by Louis Kahn's illegitimate son Nathaniel Kahn and features interviews wi Read more:Architect
Scrap Metal 2008-03-09 13:11:32 by Chris Jordan.His books: In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster; Intolerable Beauty catalog (self-published).Awards2007 Green Leaf Award, Natural World Museum and United Nations Environment Programme; awarded at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway.2006 Lannan Foundation Grant to support production of In Katrina's Wake, Portraits of Loss From An Unnatural Disaster2006 Fellowship Award recipient, Society For Contemporary Photography, Kansas City MO; juried by Lesley A. Martin (Aperture Books)2006 Best of Show award, "Artists Responding to Violence Against the Earth," Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston2005 Finalist, Santa Fe Prize for Photography2004 First Place Winner, Gary Horowitz Award, 2004 Allegany Arts Council Wills Creek Survey, juried by Elizabeth Thomas, Read more:Scrap
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Un Homme de tetes (1898) 2008-03-09 08:30:53 The earliest of Melies's early films were only one to three minutes long each & made every effort to make their entire point in the shortest amount of time possible.Widely regarded as a miniature masterpiece of the silent era, Un homme de têtes is a short comic film which bubbles with wit and energy; this short demonstrats already Georges Méliès’ extraordinary talent as both a performer and filmmaker.The skill of Méliès’ performance and technical wizardry are pure cinematic magic.Less than two minutes long, in Un Homme de tetes Georges Melies appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a thi
Exit Interviews 2008-03-09 08:28:01 Chip Zdarsky has illustrated for Popimage.com, Eye Magazine, Law of Inertia and All-Star Magazine while producing his ongoing comic-book, Prison Funnies.
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Gopher Broke (2004) 2008-03-09 08:27:36 Jeff Fowler shows us how important it is to keep simplicity in mind. This 3d animation reminds me of the old Warner Bros cartoon. The animation is well done and the gags come rapidly throughout the film's 4 min. running time. Gopher
Broke is a very entertaining 'toon!I enjoy this film’s visual style: everything has a dusty, worn down and weathered feeling. Even the vegetables have been handled in a way that makes them almost unnaturally colorful and appealing because they must have a hypnotic effect on the Gopher.The entire story is built around one particular gopher’s scheme to rob the passing farm traffic of their vegetable harvests, hoping to get a free lunch. He finds himself on a road where trucks are hauling produce to market. He hits on the idea of shaking some of the produce lo
Drink (2001) 2008-03-08 07:28:44 Patrick Smith made his directorial debut in the stylistic MTV animated series “Down-town”. He went on to direct several seasons of the popular series “Daria”. Currently, Smith is working full time on independent films. In 2000, the New York-based Smith made his filmmaking debut with the animated short, Drink
, which drew worldwide acclaim and was subsequently featured in more than 70 international film festivals.He simply wanted to draw something cool, something that would express a simple idea and would look rad.In this animated film, a boy discovers a magic potion that allows him to explore the universe within himself. A sip unleashes a violent reaction, revealing a diverse cast of characters twisting and stretching their way out of one another forming a monumental pile. The boy d
Rainbow Dance (1936) 2008-03-14 16:46:30 After A Colour Box, Len Lye made another abstract advertisement, RainbowDance
, for the Post Office Savings Bank with this surreal, innovative film.Due to the pressures of working within a documentary environment, Lye incorporate more concrete images in this and in the next films but the commercial messages continue to be always subsidiary to Lye's experiments with music, colour and movement and are added at the conclusion as an apparent after-thought.Rainbow Dance employs shot footage and overlays it with a number of abstract colour effects.The main image is a silhouetted figure in the film, enacted by dancer Rupert Doone. Light transformed the surrounding mise-en-scène into a colourful, shifting landscape, aided by the use of deregistration effects and stencil patterns to produce the c
(b)ananartista è un pinguino 2008-03-14 16:41:18 (B)ananartista Is A Penguin is by (b)ananartista (orgasmo sbuff) , an Italian multimedia artist, painter, illustrator, videomarker, performer, poet, songwriter, musician, sculptor, shaman, designer and living museum.
Russian Ark (Русский ковчег, 2002) 2008-03-14 16:40:43 Russian Ark opens with a black screen and the voice of an unnamed man explaining that he's just regaining consciousness after some mysterious accident. Unseen by the audience and voiced by the director, he wanders through the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. In each room, he encounters various real and fictional people from various time periods in the city's three-hundred-year history. He is accompanied by a companion, "the European", who represents the nineteenth-century traveller the Marquis de Custine and who is visible to the audience. The fourth wall is repeatedly broken and re-erected; at times the narrator-director and the companion interact freely with the other performers and at other times, they go completely unnoticed.The film contains Aleksander Sokurov's visual meditations on Read more:Russian
Im Rausch der Tiefe 2008-03-14 04:25:40 Frank KunertAward2006Silbermedaille beim "3rd Biennial Dimensional Salon", New York 2004Förderpreis Kunst & Museum Hollfeld 2000/1998/1997jeweils Bronze Award bei der "3-Dimensional Illustrators Awards Show", New York 19982. Platz bei der Wahl des Publikumspreises beim "Berliner Karikaturensommer" 1994Bronze-Auszeichnung beim Wettbewerb zum "Kodak Panther Work Book"
Inkspinster 2 2008-03-14 03:55:43 Inkspinster is by Deco. If you want to read Inkspinster 1, click here.
Im Anfang war der Blick (2002) 2008-03-14 03:46:03 When a writer investigates Austria through the image presented by postcards, the landscapes around Erzberg and Salzburg province become something between a dream and a nightmare. And the words on the back of the cards seep into the scene as whispers. These are terrible and painful texts, written by unknown hands over the course of time.The result of five years of work is a 45-minute art movie about Austrian landscapes.The camera acts as a winking eye spying into a poet’s workroom. Books are stacked to the ceiling and the poet moves agilely between typewriters and shelves, leafs through books or, like Alice, enters a looking-glass. Bodo Hell cuts a restless figure, a man of the word setting off on a journey into the images. In a rhythmic montage, innumerable postcard motifs rain down upon
Fehérlófia (1981) 2008-03-13 10:54:37 Can a film be experimental, pop-art, fairy-talish and mainstream at the same time?Son of the White Mare is all these things and it was also voted as one of the 50 greatest pieces of animation by a group of LA film critics.A great deal of Jankovics' works are base on folklore and mythology. The plot has been mixed together from folktales of middle and eastern Europe. The respect for folk traditions makes a surprisingly coherent and unbelievably powerful whole. The film uses an original story developed from a collage of common fairy tale themes to create an exciting adventure filled with trials, courage and romance.Following the demise of his equestrian mother, the son of the White Mare embarks upon a magical journey through far away lands. Witness him befriend his faithful servants Stonecr
The Evergreen Mon 2008-03-13 03:11:14 Florian Satzinger is a production designer, character designer and writer ("Toby Skybuckle - Adventurer By Mistake"; "Adrian's Tower"; "2Q3 - The Creating Dragons Formula"; "The Recalibrated Fantastic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn") at S&H FEATURES.
Trembled Blossom 2008-03-17 10:10:20 During the past edition of NY fashion week, Prada presented an incredibile short-film, Trembled Blossom
s, during a wonderful party to introduce their new collection. This animated movie captures the essence of Prada's Spring/Summer 2008 Collection.An army of CGI operatives were enlisted to show Prada's alien morphing from a Lalique-like blossom, through a pastel coloured meadow and into a splendid, seductive glade, where she meets Pan. The fashion element is subtle yet cleverly handled. Directed by the performance artist James Luna, animated by Sight Effects and based on James Jean's Nouveau-esque wallpaper seen in the ad campaign, the film is an ambitious narrative fantasy depicting a nude alien's journey through a magical, illustrated forest.She begins as a sort of pale neuter alien wear
Protectobot 2008-03-17 10:07:32 by Paper Resistance. His works have been published in many magazines. He's one of the editors of Inguine Mahgazine.
Vormittagsspuk (1928) 2008-03-16 16:41:39 Ghost Before Breakfast was produced for the International Music Festival at Baden-Baden with a score by Paul Hindemith. The film came out in 1927-1928, so it was conducted from a rolling score. But the Nazi regime saw this film as a form of degenerative art, so it destroyed the sound version.Hats flying, guys with suits climbing ladders, etc. It's a very rhythmical story of the rebellion of everyday objects against daily routine.Ghost Before Breakfast is different from previous films by Richter. For the first time, he makes a narrative film characterized by a subtly absurd humour, instead of attempting to make music through images. However, there is a great rhythm to this film: cut outs and the repetition of actions give to this film order and chaos.This short is also considered a lesson i
Coldcut - Just For the Kick (2006) 2008-03-16 16:04:32 Lucy Izzard won the BBC's New Talent New Animation competition in 2005 with her Tea Total. This short film was screened at Antenna in London and attracted the attention of UK audio visual legends Coldcut, who asked Lucy to make a video for them.She didn't have a huge amount of time to get it done, so she enlisted two fellow animators, Matt Latchford and Lucy Sullivan, from her Illustration/Animation course at London’s Kingston University. They formed an art collective together under the name Smuggling Peanuts.It took the trio two weeks to come up with all the ideas in the video and then three weeks of hard work completing the entirely hand drawn animation on laptops in each other’s flats.Coldcut - Just For the Kick is a pop video in which there is a clear key element: the quest of yo
Inkspinster 3 2008-03-16 03:46:00 Inkspinster is by Deco. If you want to read Inkspinster 2, click here.
Autism Is a World (2004) 2008-03-15 19:16:46 Autism Is a World
, a co-production of CNN Productions and State of the Art Inc., is a candid and compelling look into the mind of Sue Rubin, a 26-year-old Los Angeles woman living with autism. The film has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.Gerardine Wurzburg chose to make this film to bring people into the world of autism. Autism is a world so difficult to explain to someone who is not autistic.This short film is written by Sue Rubin herself. At the age of thirteen, she learned to express herself through a computer keyboard, otherwise known as facilitated communication, revealing that she was in fact highly intelligent. She went on to study history, specializing in Latin American History at Whittier College and to write speeches about her life with auti Read more:Autism
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