‘Home,’ Film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Home, the first film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and produced by Luc Beson highlights the treasures of planet Earth and the marks that humans leave behind. It aims to inspire global action by raising awareness of our shared responsibility for the planet and all of its inhabitants.
Disney Selects Noah as Official Artist of D23 Expo
As part of this year’s D23 Expo, Noah was chosen by Disney Consumer Products to create the iconic graphic celebrating this year’s themes. This illuminating video shows the master at work on the classic Disney inspired painting featuring a realistic portrait of Walt and a ‘toony Sorcerer Mickey causing lots of colorful trouble.
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‘Eat the Sun,’ a Documentary on Sungazing
Eat The Sun is a feature length fascinating by Sorcher Films that focuses on a young man’s journey into the little known world of sungazing, an ancient practice of looking directly at the sun for long periods of time.
San Francisco, CA 2004: A flyer at school advertising a lecture by an elderly Indian gentleman sparks the imagination of a young man named Mason. The flyer reads: “You can become solar powered.” It also states that the Indian man giving the lecture, who goes by the acronym HRM (Hira Ratan Manek), has not eaten in over 8 years, a direct result of sungazing.
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WWF – We Are All Connected
WWF – We Are All Connected ad directed by Mato Atom for Ogilvyproduced by James Hagger from Troublemakers.tv for the WWF produced & Mather Mexico.
“Fire with Fire,” Projection by Isabelle Hayeur
Montreal-based artist Isabelle Hayeur has created “fire with fire”, a site-specific video project in Vancouver, Canada. Consisting of 3 Blu-ray players and video projectors, the piece is a 15 minute video loop that simulates a fire in a four-storey heritage building in the downtown eastside. The area is the city’s oldest neighborhood and one of the most run-down; many lives have been consumed due to years of homelessness, drug abuse, prostitution and violence. “Fire with Fire” is intended to bring attention to the derelict history of the sector while recalling the destructive event of the great Vancouver fire in 1886.
Isabelle Hayeur
ENVISION : Step Into the Sensory Box
Envision : Step into the Sensory Box, the latest video by Superbien was created as an experience showing video mapping as a communication on the tagline “Transforming the Mobile Experience”. It was shown at the last Mobile World Congress.
Simon’s Cat in “Cat Chat”
Simon’s Cat meets a hedgehog. A curious cat cat gets into a prickly situation.
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Kate Moss 3D Shoot by Baillie Walsh
Artist and filmmaker Baillie Walsh has created this short 3D film and shoot with model Kate Moss for AnOther Magazine.
KM3D-1 from artschoolvets on Vimeo.
The work continues Moss and Walsh’s journey into experimental, multi-dimensional image-making, first seen in their legendary holographic film for Alexander McQueen’s autumn/winter 2006 show. With a performance that recalls the fantastical cinema of Ray Harryhausen, James Bidgood and Kenneth Anger, KM3D-1 places at its centre one of the most iconic female figures of the modern age. Suspended in time and space, Kate is caught inexorably in the parallax gap; a butterfly in a spider’s web. Captured at 1,000 frames per second – a speed so slow that movement is almost imperceptible – the beauty of Kate’s face appears frozen, transforming her into an impenetrable deity. She is a figure of contemporary fantasy, shattering her own self-image. Made with state-of-the-art Phantom cameras, specially built for the project to create extreme slow motion and a dramatic 3D effect, KM3D-1 reflects AnOther Magazine’s raison d’etre: to champion creatives pushing the limits of what seems possible.
IRC Dance Movement, Video by Shueti
Entitled “IRC Dance Movement” and mounted on the soundtrack “Signal the Captain” by Of Porcelain, this beautiful three-minute short movie about the movements of breakdancing collective Dutch Illusionary Rockaz is realized by Shueti.
IRC dance movement from . on Vimeo.
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“Mankind Is No Island” by Jason van Genderen
Jason van Genderen’s Mankind Is No Island is a 3 ½ minute film that was shot entirely on a cell phone and took home the top $20,000 prize at Tropfest, NY, the world’s largest short film festival.
Simon’s Cat “Fly Guy”
Simon’s Cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to catch a housefly. From the drawing board of Simon Tofield.
“The Seed” by Johnny Kelly
This video by Johnny Kelly follows the life cycle of a seed, but that simple description doesn’t do justice to this animation.
The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
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