The Cosmonaut in 5 steps
The Cosmonaut is an interesting crowdsourced filmmaking project. The following video gives an overview.
The Cosmonaut in 5 steps from Riot Cinema on Vimeo.
DRAGONSLAYER
Dragonslayer won the Grand Jury Best Doc award at SXSW earlier tonight. He’s a teaser.
From the doc’s official site
Director’s Statement: I met Josh Sandoval at a party in an abandoned airfield off the I-10 in Chino, California. He had a lime-green Mohawk and was wearing a matching Screamers T-shirt, in honor of the L.A. punk band that never recorded an album. He looked malnourished and lost, and claimed he was on 5 tabs of acid. It was impossible to talk to him. His head was lost in the clouds. Then I saw him skate. I think Josh is like a lot of kids from his generation–smart enough to know a potentially bleak future looms and scrambling to figure out a way to survive in it. He’s also on a wavelength all his own.
A Brief History of Title Design
Cool condensed history of title design in films.
A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.
hat tip Brain Pickings
Scenes from the Suburbs
Arcade Fire teams up with Spike Jonze for a 1984 esque “Big Brother” tale of alienation. The short plays at SXSW this week. Check out the trailer.
The Shock Doctrine
In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world– through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. Read More
Trailer
Watch the full film – part 1
Destroyer – Sublimation Hour
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Sublimation Hour
Bored Couples
I’m a fan of people caught in real moments and especially ones that leave room for interpretation. Martin Parr worked for over a decade to photograph bored couples all of which he had no relationship to. The photos where released in a book in 1993 called Bored Couples.
click the image to view a gallery of the photos
Hat tip Thought Catalog