Monday, July 31, 2017

Mountain Castle Mountain Flower Plastic by Annapurna Kumar



Small pieces of information can be housed separately within a shared container. The most efficient containers can house multiple pieces of information in the same location by allowing them to intersect from different angles.

Field of Vision - Duterte's Hell by Field of Vision



Since taking office last June, President Rodrigo Duterte has been waging a deadly anti-drug campaign. In the past year, police and vigilantes have reportedly killed over 7,000 people suspected of participating in the drug trade. Directed by Aaron Goodman and Luis Liwanag See more from Field of Vision here: fieldofvision.org

Fever by ELO films



Four young people unknowingly walk toward a moment in their lives when a fever overtakes them, bringing out their most basic instincts. "Fever" premieres today on Short of the Week. Read more about it here: http://ift.tt/2tJj0GG. by ELO films elofilms.com Written, Directed, and Produced by: Logan George & Celine Held Director of Photography: Logan George Sound Recordist: Celine Held Editor & Colorist: Logan George Music by: David Baloche Sound Mixer: M. Louis Gordon Starring (in order of appearance): Yuza "Shiro" Hiroumi Nikesh Ghimire Shahla al Balushi Aamahri Nicholson See more on Fever at http://ift.tt/2qiFssf.

Skater’s Paradise: On/Off - NOWNESS by NOWNESS



Filmmaker Youri Fernandez’s On/Off, part of the HOW MANY BMP? project, is monochromatic portrait of a night and day skate around Berlin. Read more on NOWNESS - http://bit.ly/2uIdXaJ

Sunday, July 30, 2017

For I Only Needed Awakening by Rachel Goldsworthy



'For I Only Needed Awakening' is a collection of the beautiful people and places that captured my curiosity in between work trips to China from 2013-2016. I wanted to create it for my friend Fiona who made my time there so memorable and helped me to fall in love with the culture even if she didn't realise it. After a lot of change in both our lives this past year I thought that we could use a reminder of how great we are, how great humans are and how exciting the future will be - even if it's at times hard to see. There comes a point in your life when you realise what really matters, what never did, and what always will. The same can be said for who. Sometimes we just need the reminder to wake up to that. Fiona I love you, and the world does too. Music: Nuages - Dreams featuring The Dream of Life by Alan Watts http://ift.tt/1oyqkdf The Dream of Life Lets suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream, and you would naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure, you see, and after several nights you would say, "well that was pretty great." But now lets have a surprise, lets have a dream which isn’t under control. Well something is going to happen to me that i don’t know what it’s gonna be. Then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream, and finally you would dream where you are now. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death. You can feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. - Alan Watts Film, edit, sound and grade: Rachel Goldsworthy

Saturday, July 29, 2017

'The Sunshine Boy' by Naaman AZ



Inspired by real events, the film explores a mother's realisation behind her son's psychological thoughts, moments before a tragic event. Directed by Naaman Azhari Contact: naamafilms@gmail.com Featured on Short Of The Week: http://ift.tt/2u1MoY4

Timelines by Alan Jennings



A man obsessed with vanity enters a futile race against time. 4:21 minutes, HD video, Color, Stereo Credits Scenario, Direction, Additional animation: Alan Jennings Actor: Daniel Rowe Music: Shannon Lee Voice: Beth Murphy Set Design and Construction: Frank Criscione Special Thanks: Daniel Rowe, Beth Murphy, Bill Jennings, Shannon Lee, Justin Lampka, Frank Criscione, Leslie Shershow & Everyone at Framers' Workshop, Brookline, MA, USA This film was funded in part by The Somerville Arts Council, A division of The Massachusetts Cultural Council. Screenings 11th Athens Animfest. April 7-13, 2016 (Greece) Find out more about this film here: http://ift.tt/2gW6BNU

Friday, July 28, 2017

RUNAWAY by Tom Ruddock



In a split second George is thrown into a nightmare. Now confronted with a choice, to stay or to run. Starring Jack Brett Anderson (WolfBlood) and Lucien Laviscount (Scream Queens, Honey Trap) Written and Directed by Tom Ruddock. Official Selection Austin Film Festival 2016 Official Selection Cinequest 2016 Official Selection Omaha Film Festival 2016 Official Selection Kitzbuhel Film Festival 2016 tomruddockdirector.com runawayfilm.com Watch the Behind the scenes here - vimeo.com/226237443

THIS IS DESMONDO RAY! Episode 1 by Steve Baker



THIS IS DESMONDO RAY! Episode 1: All Alone In A Dark World A peculiar man searches for love in a dark and troubling world. Watch the previous episode here: Prologue: http://ift.tt/2u4WEyE And the following episodes here: Episode 2: http://ift.tt/2tPurke Episode 3: http://ift.tt/2u5b0z1 Episode 4: http://ift.tt/2tPH66X Episode 5: http://ift.tt/2u4MU7Q Website: http://ift.tt/2tPus7M Facebook: http://ift.tt/1WAfeLL Twitter: https://twitter.com/DesmondoRay

Mother's Day by The New York Times - Video



When seeing your mother means a trip to prison. By Elizabeth Lo. Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/2tm4DL4

Thursday, July 27, 2017

ALT J - Deadcrush by Young Replicant



2017 Infectious Music Featuring Leah Marojevic, Alana Everett, Natalia Iwaniec Director - Alex Takacs Choreographer - Darcy Wallace DP - Martijn Van Broekhuizen Production Company - Pulse Films Executive Producer - Rik Green Producer - Sonya Sier Assistant Producer - Rebecca Mason PM - Amanda Tuckwell Production Coordinator - Elena Argiros 1st AD - George Nelson 2nd AD - Ben Keswick Production Designer - Nathan Parker Wardrobe - Natalie Wilkins Hair & Makeup - Lisa Zipper SFX - Bob Smoke 1st AC - Jeremy Fusco 2nd AC - Jerry Pradon Grip - Neil Blakesley Steadicam - Matt Alsopp DIT - Chris Belcher Editor - Thomas Grove Carter @ Trim Editing Colorist - Oisín O'Driscoll @ The Mill Post Producer - Imogen Pai Post Production - The Mill VFX Supervisor - Brad Wood, Matthew Kavanagh 2D Lead Artist - Fergal Hendrick 2D Artist - George Cressey, Jose Caballero & John Thornton 3D Artist - Marta Carbonell

Travel in Asia by OOPS!sidedown



A few months ago we went on our first trip to South East Asia. This video is a collection of vivid moments we've captured on our way just to never forget all the places we have fallen in love with. FACEBOOK ►http://ift.tt/1LIsV5E INSTAGRAM ► http://ift.tt/2iMkvyE Filmed with Panasonic GH4 lenses: Panasonic Lumix Vario 12-35, f/2.8, Metabones Speed Booster + Nikkor 35mm f/1.8, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 music: Ryan Taubert - Limitless voice: Alan Watts - Time & the more it changes

SONATA by Nadia Micault



Realisation : Nadia Micault Production : Autour de Minuit Music : Sonate pour violoncelle seul Compositeur : Ligeti violoncelliste : Dima Tsypkin Choregraphe : Fernando Carrion Danseuse : Emilia Giudicelli

Pursuit (4K) by Mike Olbinski



----- Blu-Ray discs available here: http://ift.tt/1NmxOlE Music by Peter Nanasi, find his work here: http://ift.tt/2h0Lpq0 Follow me: http://twitter.com/mikeolbinski / http://ift.tt/1gNIw6O / http://ift.tt/14015Z3 ------- On June 12th, I broke down into tears. Minutes earlier, I had been outside my truck, leaning against it, head buried in my arms, frustration and failure washing over me. I wanted to quit. I got back in the car and as I drove, the pain got the better of me and the tears came. This past spring was a tough one. Supercell structure and beautiful tornadoes had been very hard to come by. In fact, the tornado in the opening of this film was the only good one I saw this entire year. I had been on the road longer than ever before. Driven more miles. I was away from my family for 12 straight days at one point, and when I got home, I had to tell them I was going back out 24 hours later for June 12th. It was just too good to pass up. It promised to be a day that I could get everything I had been hoping for this spring and I had no choice. My wife understood, even though I knew she wished I stayed home. And I wished it too. I knew right where I wanted to be that day. But this year I struggled with confidence in trusting my instincts. Maybe it was because the lack of good storms this spring made me question my skills, or maybe it was something else inside of me. Whatever the case, I let myself get twisted and unsure, and found myself 80 miles away from where I had wanted to be when the tornadoes started to drop and the best structure of the year materialized in the sky. The photos from Twitter and Facebook started to roll in and I knew I had missed everything. It may not be easy to understand why, but when you work as hard as I did this spring, a moment like that can break you. I felt like I let my wife down. But mostly I let myself down. I forgot who I was and that's not me. Or it shouldn't have been me. I failed myself. And it seemed like the easy choice to just give up and head for home. But I didn't. I'm not sure why, but the pain slowly began to subside. I realized it was only 4pm and the storms were still ongoing. Maybe if I could get in front of them the day could be saved. Ninety minutes later, I got out ahead and saw some of the best structure I'd seen all spring and a lightning show that was so incredible it's one of the very last clips of this film. And that's why this film is called "Pursuit." Because you can't give up. Keep chasing, keep pursuing. Whatever it is. That's the only way to get what you want. I learned something about myself on June 12th which carried over to the final few days of chasing this spring. I trusted myself again and those days were incredibly rewarding. This was who I'd been all along but had forgotten. I can't wait for next year. The work on this film began on March 28th and ended June 29th. There were 27 total days of actual chasing and many more for traveling. I drove across 10 states and put over 28,000 new miles on the ol' 4Runner. I snapped over 90,000 time-lapse frames. I saw the most incredible mammatus displays, the best nighttime lightning and structure I've ever seen, a tornado birth caught on time-lapse and a display of undulatus asperatus that blew my mind. Wall clouds, massive cores, supercell structures, shelf clouds...it ended up being an amazing season and I'm so incredibly proud of the footage in this film. It wasn't the best year in storm chasing history...but I got to chase storms and share it with you guys. All worth it. I wanted to do something new this year, so I worked with composer Peter Nanasi to develop a custom track for Pursuit. I'm super excited about it and loved the process of exchanging ideas and building the song as the editing of the film progressed. I am so thankful to Peter for what he came up with, I'm in love with this track! The time away from my family turned out to be over a month all told. I'm always and continually blessed by a wife who supports what I do and backs me completely. But not only do I have her to thank this spring, but also her parents who hung around for a good chunk of May and early June, to help out wherever needed, watch the kids, run errands and generally be there for Jina. I don't have enough words to convey how appreciative I am for them being around while I was gone. I think that's about it. I could write a lot more, but I'd rather you watch the film and hopefully have a taste of what I saw this spring. There is nothing quite like strong inflow winds, the smell of rain and the crack of thunder. I miss being out there already. I hope you enjoy and I'll do my best to answer any questions in the comments below! Technical Details: I used two Canon 5DSR's along with a Canon 11-24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 135mm and Sigma Art 50mm. Manfrotto tripods. The final product was edited in Lightroom with LR Timelapse, After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Dolby 'Prime' Full Version by Hornet



This is actually the fourth and final part in a series of films commissioned by Dolby Labs for their amazing gallery space in San Francisco. Gabe Askew has long collaborated with the musician duo Hays + Ryan Holladay who were responsible for putting the series together. They leveraged the new Dolby Atmos technology to create a beautiful and embracing soundscape while Gabe tried to wrap his head around the massive 9920x720 resolution display. The theme of the series was memory. Drawing from the writings of Ray Kurzweil, Gabe created a visual metaphor for the physical act of how the brain receives a stimulus, breaks it down into elements, stores it via pattern receptors in the cerebral cortex, and then recalls it. The specific memory represented in the film is the birth of his daughter, Lily. Director: Gabe Askew Production Co: Hornet Client: Dolby Labs Music: Hays + Ryan Holladay

JAY-Z 'Bam' ft. Damian Marley by Rohan Blair-Mangat



Super Magic Hats - Sleepless by Tessa Chong



'Sleepless' by Super Magic Hats, from the new album 'Wish'. Hypnagogia is the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep... You start falling, then you're slowly running, you start dreaming of lunch, dancing, and shape-shifting into a guy with a million eyes. Directed and animated by Lee Arkapaw and Tessa Chong

THE PRIVATES by Amalgamated Picture Co.



An unknown rock band struggles with a radioactive energy in their music that blows up amps, liquefies tape decks, and starts electrical fires. On the eve of their first (and possibly last) show, they must decide whether to risk life, limb, and legacy for a 1AM slot on a Tuesday. It could change everything...or nothing at all. "The Privates" is this week's Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere! Read more about it here: http://ift.tt/2uCfS0E 2017 Sun Valley Film Festival 2017 IFFBoston 2017 Brooklyn Film Festival 2017 Palm Springs International ShortFest Hammer to Nail Short Film Contest - Spring '17 - WINNER Writer / Director: Dylan Allen Producer: Eddy Vallante Starring: Lilli Stein, Rachel Trachtenburg, Alex Herrald, Omar Maskati Director of Photography: Evan Jake Cohen Music: The Privates Original Score: Dave Paulson Editor: Robert Grigsby Wilson Producer: Javier Gonzalez Executive Producer: Matthew Perkins Associate Producer: Mari Shiel Production Design: Pinky Guest Casting: Rebecca Dealy Casting Assistants: Christy Escobar, Kristie Walsh Costume Design: Megan Stark Evans Hair/Makeup/SFX Makeup: Lexan Rosser Visual Effects: Perry Kroll 1st Assistant Director: Eric “Frenchy” LaFranchi Unit Production Manager: Maddi Clarke 2nd Assistant Director: Tas Mahr Property Master: Nicolas Luna Set Dresser: Alan Jensen Miniatures: Peter Feigenbaum Production Sound Mix: Adrian Martinez Audio Post Producer: Kira MacKnight / One Thousand Birds Sound Design/Mix: Calvin Pia / One Thousand Birds Music Director: Maxwell McDonald ADR Engineer: John Parthum / Mixtape Club Gaffer: Chad Dougherty Key Grip: Glenn Porter Best Boy Electric: Justin Newhouse Best Boy Grip: Jacob Beil Grip: Camilla Foschi 1st Assistant Camera: Matt Garland 2nd Assistant Camera: Brandon Regina Set Photographer: James Chororos Script Supervisor: Rachel Cole Production Coordinator: Quinn Dooley Locations: Jordan Thomas Alexander, Alex Richard Production Assistants: Kuper Bank, Eli Kleinsmith, Sean Woodruff, Mikaela Barish Poster Design: Sam’s Myth Digital Colorist: Andrew Francis Color Assist: Charles Leighton Digital Intermediate Services: Sixteen19 “We Are Really Rocking Now, Haven’t We?”: written & performed by The Privates “You Never Take Me Dancing”: written & performed by The Privates VFX Breakdown - http://ift.tt/2uXK3SD Amalgamated Picture Company, 2017. All rights reserved.

FRANCO PASCALI by Jacob Rosenberg



When I met Franco Pascali, I was struck by how much I felt like I was meeting and hanging out with a young street skater. However, instead of witnessing skate tricks he destroyed me by his usage of cards. Much like the world of skateboarding that I was raised in, magic and cardistry are intensely personal and individually orientated in terms of the endless practice that is required to master them. Tricks are performed with decks and each person embodies a style that is distinctly their own. That style is reflective of the influences they devoured when they were coming up and their intrinsic sensibility that they develop as they mature. As I spent time with Franco I immediately wanted to point my camera at him to capture the way he dressed, the way he talked, the breathtaking way he moved cards and the feeling I had in encountering such raw talent. This is our first film. Franco Pascali is 19 years-old and lives in Los Angeles. He is a director of magic at Theory11.  IG - @francopascali Director - Jacob Rosenberg Director of Photography - Logan Triplett Editor - Chris Amos Composer - Steffen Thum Colorist - Tom Poole Sound Mixer - Matt Miller Additional Music - Tomas Pascali Stylist - Emily Nagrecha Producers - Ari Palitz & Kevin McMahon Executive Producer - Ryan Slavin Production Company – The Reserve Featuring - Franco Pascali, Fatty Dabs, Alexander Hansford, Simon Black, Chris Mitchell Editorial Services Provided by Final Cut LA Color Correction provided by Company 3 Music Provided by 14th Street Music Sound Mix provided by Lime Studios Cameras provided by 2020 Camera Rental Special Thanks: Queenie Li, Lorne Balfe, Hana Leshner, Tim Hanaseth, Suzy Ramirez, Jeff Buchanan, Eric McCasline, Alexandra Lubrano, Jenny Montgomery, Chris Adams, RVCC LA, Stephen Vanasco, The Smog Check Center, Canter's, Dena Stein

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

THE MISSED SPACEFLIGHT - VR Experience by MELT



After years of abstract motion design we're extremely proud to present our first realistic project !!! We'd love to show it to everyone in proper VR, but if you don't own one, just imagine you're in the Soyuz spacecraft and Google Cardboard it maybe? :D In 1978 Poland got a chance to send its national into outer space. From four brave pilots - one has been chosen, while three of his replacements stayed on the ground. Samsung wanted to make their dream come true and curated this VR experience - inspired by a Soyuz 30 spaceflight. Read more: http://ift.tt/2uXAXoy or read more on behance: http://ift.tt/2tBEF3s Experience VR by MELT / Doświadcz wirtualnej rzeczywistości MELT