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Driving forward with the remix
Volkswagen's Night Driving site offers a commercial remixing tool. Quality of content/film makes this compelling.
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Video to go
Portable Film Festival is a no-nonsense, straight-talking, and sleekly put together Australian initiative. It does exactly what it suggests: showcasing mobile films.
Voting finishes tomorrow on the festival selection.
Hibon swings Heavenly Sword
The first couple of episodes of Ben Hibon's animations to accompany PS3 videogame, Heavenly Sword, are here and here. I had to meet this French director after I'd checked out his previous, award-winning, Codehunters, and we talked about this project he was working on. Nice to see it coming to fruition finally. One of his frustrations with that project was the way it changed, and he wasn't able to imbue it with explicit narrative -- that's not the case here with an explanatory narrative which sets up the videogame scenario in forthright terms. Animation starts impressively, and continues subtle use of colour and considered mise en scene. All five episodes should be available soon.
Night falls on the Maestros
Just read Michelangelo Antonioni has died aged 94 on the same day as another cinematic great, Ingmar Bergman, aged 89. A dark day for 'intellectual cinema' as the NYT has it. Where has the cinema for the cineastes gone?
I had the pleasure of listening to Antonioni at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival for one of his later films, Beyond the Clouds, with John Malkovich. It was still like nothing else in the festival, even if it wasn't up there with his greats, and favourites of mine like Blowup, Zabriski Point, or The Red Desert. After receiving a standing ovation, everyone was rapt, intent at gleaning the words of this legendary artist. It was electrifying to be in his presence.
Both directors will be missed.
[via Boing Boing]
Hoogerbrugge, actionscript auteur
I've just recently completed an essay to be included in the upcoming monograph Modern Living: The Graphic Universe of Han Hoogerbrugge, a book on this pioneering flash animator's work. The book will be published later this year through BIS Publishers in cooperation with SubmarineChannel.
It's given me a chance to reengage and fully explore Hoogerbrugge's work again, as I haven't been in contact with him since writing my contributions for the On Air: MTV book. I suggest you indulge in the interactive narratives of Hotel and other pieces on his website when you've got a few spare cycles. Hans is definitely seeding his own fertile territory in moving image, and lives up to the billing of being an 'Actionscript Auteur' as I call him in my provisionally titled piece, Flipping out and Floating Away.
