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Video: Death Star over San Francisco
Imperial Fleet Week in San Francisco - a great and exceptionally well made fan video that shows the Star Wars Empire gathering in and over San Francisco.
Star Wars fan Michael Horn, who made the short film, says he used only his “junkie DV camera” and did the processing in After Effects and Final Cut…
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Video: Meglio Stasera
Friday night and most likely quite a few people during this shortest night of the year will try to live the underlying meaning of this great song.
Meglio Stasera composed by Henry Mancini for the 1963 film The Pink Panther and sung by young actress Fran Jeffries. The song exists in different versions and languages (English: It had better be tonight)…
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Animation: The old Man and the Sea
This beautiful animation of Hemingway’s saga “The old man and the sea” has been completely hand painted - all 29,000 frames of it. It’s actually more an independent film created by Russian artist Alexander Petrov and Canadian Pascal Blais Productions that helped him to get the 21 minute film onto celluloid with IMAX technology.
It won a series of awards and received an Oscar nomination for Best Animation Short Film…
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Film: Ice Age 3 teaser
Still some time to go but if you enjoyed the first two parts of the Oscar nominated animation Ice Age you can now watch the trailer / teaser for the next sequel on the “movie’s web site”.
The next part will be called Ice Age 3 Dawn of the Dinosaurs and is due to be released in July 2009.
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Recession: The Movie
The trailer for the latest movie from the producers of “The Iraq War”. Now playing at a theater near you.
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Short Film: A Lonely Sky
A Lonely Sky - a short film written and directed by Nick Ryan - won quite a few awards. It tells the story of a test pilot who will risk his life to break the sound barrier, but then is forced to question his reasons and abilities by a strange yet familiar man. Great images…
The full movie is also available for download as a high quality Quicktime file from…
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Movie: Helvetica
Helvetica is a 1h21min documentary that everybody who appreciates design and type will love.
…makes Times New Roman look like Wingdings…
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Animation: Sigg Jones
It has been around for some time but this 7 minute animation is so great that we need to point you to it.
Created by three students from the “Supinfocom” School in Arles, France with 3DSmax, the movie Sigg Jones also won a honorary mention at Ars Electronica this year…
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Design: PSST! 2 films released
PSST! 2 – a collaboration of different teams of designers, directors, and animators to produce short films has put all their new films online now. The nine films have been created by 27 different teams with more than 70 people over a 4 month period. Each film is comprised of three sections produced by three different teams. This process is the whole idea behind PSST! – a technique derived from the Dadaist game of Exquisite Corpse and the children’s game Telephone and applied to the arts of motion graphics, animation and film-making. PSST! 2 collaborators included…
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Advertising: Pirelli Mission Zero
One of the best advertising short-films we have seen for a (very) long time. After their great success last year with the short film “The Call” starring John Malkovich and Naomi Campbell, PirelliFilm has now created a new high budget film called “Mission Zero”. It is featuring Uma Thurman, Kathryn Bigelow, the Lamborghini Gallardo and of course Pirelli’s new PZero tires. If you enjoyed Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill movies you must watch this one…
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