life’s everyday adventures in an ecovillage, plus other intentional community, filmmaking, and random musings
New 8bitpeoples release: Bit Shifter - “Information Chase”: Ohhheckyes. Quality.
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CinemaScope: Chain overview + Jem Cohen interview: This sounds really great, and I really want to see it. Really.
Self-Reliant Filmmaking: Nice… bookmark it.
Got an e-mail from a kindly gentleman from a UK-based production company named Left Blind Eye who expressed interest in screening Green after viewing it at Slack Video’s recent screening. So, as part of the Cut Off Trousers series, there is a good chance Green will be playing in a theater in Leeds this Sunday (February 26): The Hyde Picture House. Neat!
Democracy Player lowdown (via DV Guru): Democracy Player is a video content aggregator, but it also includes a vital component named the Broadcast Machine. This allows videomakers (filmmakers?) to easily set up a distribution channel for their work. Very intriguing… I would love to see this go somewhere big.
I set up my own short film broadcast here: small-scale films.
You can subscribe to my channel through Democracy Player (or any RSS reader, really) with this link.
Power to the users.
The Journal of Short Film Volume 2 overview / review: I just finally made it through all of the shorts on the (sorta-kinda) recently release JSF Vol. 2, so here are some (very) brief words…
The contents:
1. WE’RE JUST WALKING – Warren Johnston (2004, 8:00) - Nice, “aged” visuals…
2. BLUDREN – Jill Johnston-Price (2003, 7:00) - An animation, but with a stiff style that didn’t really win me over. Color scheme didn’t help, either.
3. BATTLEGROUND MINNESOTA – Gabriel Cheifetz (2004, 8:00) - A bit scattered, but a funky premise.
4. CHUCO – Stephen Stickler (2005, 5:15) - Flashy presentation, but this one didn’t really stand out for me, personally.
5. ANDY – Terence Healy (2004, 5:00) - Funny little story… simple.
6. CAKEWALK – Jeff Economy (2001, 6:00) - I don’t think this one did a whole lot for me…
7. THE TOURIST – James Israel and Jeff Israel (2005, 15:00) - I pictured the ‘conclusion’ before it even happened, but what difference does that make…? Eerie and intense b&w visuals.
8. ONCE UPON A TIME IN BROOKLYN – Neil Ira Needleman (2004, 7:00) - Ha! Very surprised to stumble across this one. I saw it last year during a Rooftop Films screening… Old bickering women will never cease to be funny. I just wish the majority of the dialouge was easier to make out!
9. FINAL LAP – J.J. Adler (2005, 11:50) - The son’s tossing of the cigarette sealed the deal for me.
10. EYESIGHT – Marcy B. Freedman (2004, 3:55) - Awesome concept / story, but the whole slideshow-like presentation left me wanting a bit more.
11. DEMOLITION 7 – Richie Sherman (2005, 9:00) - Stand-out editing and visuals. Nice audio, too.
I really must say (again) that I love the concept behind the Journal of Short Film and wish it was a bit more frequent than a quaterly release.
A.V. Club: CSA: The Confederate States Of America review: “It’s (the film) an elaborate “what if” exercise, retelling the last 140 years of American history in an alternate universe where the South wins the Civil War and slavery remains legal.”
“electronic music gets game”: A feature on MTV.com about chiptune music… hmm… mainstream recognition? Intriguing.
Pixen: Extremely clean, simple, and very fun to use… great little application for pixel art. Jiffy keen. For Mac OS X.
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