This is a 6 minutes long, silent, film by the legendary avant-garde, non-narrative film maker Stan Brakhage. Called ‘Cat’s Cradle’, the film follows the uncertainty of montage patterns, that one has come to identify with solely Brakhage. The vivid and graphic use of the color red, and the inter-cutting between shots of man, woman, and…
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Animation: Kiwi!
This short animated film was made by Dony Permedi, a student at The School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art, in New York City in 2006. It was his Masters thesis animation. Created using Maya, After Effects, and rigged using The Setup Machine by Anzovin studios. This film tells the tale of a kiwi (a…
The Night Shift: A Short Film from Fighting Owl Films.
This is a short (semi-amateurish) film made by production group Fighting Owl Films. They are an independent short and student films production house, formed in 2003. They focus mainly on producing genre films, encompassing horror, sci-fi, action, and more. Why? They explain: Because it’s what we enjoy. Genre films are a lot of fun to…
Short Film: Bhugol
A short film with some amazing outdoors camerawork, this is a student film about two men in a desert. one of them is searching for the edges of the world, the other for escape. The original poster of this video writes: Yet this journey itself is a scenic and timeless humanscape which reflects and blends…
Cinema and Eastern Culture/Identity in a Globalized World.
Such is the state of representation of eastern cultures, that while western world may admire typical aesthetics of these films, the native audience often wonders if their own culture is being represented in a fair way. While Globalization, in the cultural sphere has been accused of destroying native identities in favour of a new homogenized,…
El Mariachi 1992 (Robert Rodriguez)
Robert Rodriguez isn’t exactly a nobody now, but this is 1992 and Robert Rodriguez is indeed a nobody. The film was shot on 16mm and Rodriguez raised $3000 out of the $7000 budget, as a volunteer for experimental drug testing. The story is about a wannabe Mariachi, who is a guitar player. He gets mistaken…
Csillagosok, katonák (1967) a.k.a The Red and The White.
Another, and more widely admired film of Hungarian director Miklos Jancso, this film concentrates on a group of Hungarian soldiers supporting the Bolsheviks (Reds) against the Czarists (Whites), set in 1919. Not following any central character, this film goes on to depict the senselessness of war, no matter whose side one is on. this film…
BOOM DE YA DA!!!!
The Discovery Channel promo video.Quite enjoyable, and dare I say…CUTE!
Soredemo Boku Wa Yattenai (2006)
This film investigates the Japanese justice system through the case of a young man, who is trying to defend his innocence against a false ‘groping’ charge. With a 99.9% convinction rate in Japanese courts (I was so shocked to learn that!) the chances of acquittal are extremly unlikely, despite the charge being minor. The man…
Dogme # 1 Festen (The Celebration) (1998)
The Celebration is a Danish film, made by director Thomas Vinterberg, in 1998, which centres around the gathering of an upper class family for the 60th birthday celebrations of its patriarch, Helge Klingenfeldt-Hansen (Henning Moritzen) – soon after the mysterious death of his daughter, Linda. But what initially appears as a stuffy formal occasion begins…