Bon Voyage by Fabio Friedli

Dozens of immigrants climb onto an overcrowded truck. Their goal: to escape to Europe. When they arrive after an exhausting journey, another brutal reality awaits them: the European treatment of refugees. "Bon Voyage" is this week's Staff Pick Premiere! Read more about it here: http://ift.tt/2yI4sOa Script & Director: Fabio Friedli Animation: Nils Hedinger, Martin Waespe, Fabio Friedli Starring: Linford Boateng, Nik Rechsteiner DOP & Light: Janosch Abel Sounddesign & Mix: Thomas Gassmann Foley: Dieter Hebben Production: Gerd Gockel, HSLU Design & Kunst, Animation

Street Swap by Noah Malone

Respect all as thine self.

The GF Club by Jack Anderson

In 2007, my sister was asked out on her first date. We were in middle school. It all happened on Google Chat. These are the transcripts. http://ift.tt/2z9dRxs Created by: Jack Anderson hello@jackanders.com jackanders.com Music: Comfortable Mystery 3 - Film Noire by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (http://ift.tt/1bFo3O7) Source: http://ift.tt/1SA1qOg Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Rhodesia by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (http://ift.tt/1bFo3O7) Artist: http://ift.tt/1NOhxSZ

Mona Lisa Selfie by DANIEL MCKEE

MONA LISA SELFIE Over 6 million people visit the Mona Lisa at the Louvre each year. Many share their visit on social media. A film by DANIEL MCKEE Music by ISAAC STERN This video was made using images found on Instagram.

POOL SCUM EPISODES 1-3 by Foster Huntington

EPISODES 1-3 OF POOL SCUM edited together for your viewing pleasure. Set in California in the illustrious 80s, POOL SCUM, follows the showdown of two arch nemeses on the path to backyard pool greatness. Made by Movie Mountain, check us out on Instagram @moviemountain and Patreon http://ift.tt/2m0MqAU. Director of Photography and Special Effects Supervisor: Matt Emmons Lead Fabricator and Set Builder: Kai Korsmo Animator: Kyle Stephens Wardrobe and Puppet Builder: Alexa Schreck Miniature Botanical Wizard: Timothy Huntington Matte Painting: Adam Burke Sound Design: Warren Lee Additional Help: Shelby Menzel, Henry Annand, Tucker Gorman, Mel, David Wien, and Phillip Annand Director: Foster Huntington

"Scary Gary" Teardrop Estates featuring Frank Leone x Gary Wilson by rossangeles

Ruff Mercy visuals on a Teardrop Estates (Ross Harris) tune featuring that kid lurking in the woods Frank Leone and the legendary Gary Wilson. Mixed by Jake Viator at Stones Throw Studios. Buy or stream it here http://ift.tt/2lz0cdG

How Stanislavski Reinvented the Craft of Acting by Travis Lee Ratcliff

In the 1950s, a wave of “method actors” took Hollywood by storm. Actors like James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Montgomery Clift, brought a whole new toolset and perspective on the actor’s craft to the films they performed in. The foundation of their work, however, was laid in Russia more than fifty years prior to their stardom. Stanislavski’s conception of “psychological realism” in performance challenged ideas about the essential features of the actor’s craft that had been held for centuries. In theatre before Stanislavski, acting was defined as a craft of vocal and gestural training. The role the actor played was to give life to the emotions of the text in a broad illustrative fashion. Formal categories such as melodrama, opera, vaudeville, and musicals, all played to this notion of the actor as chief representer of dramatic ideas. Stanislavski’s key insight was in seeing the actor as an experiencer of authentic emotional moments. Suddenly the craft of performance could be about seeking out a genuine internal experience of the narrative’s emotional journey. From this foundation, realism in performance began to flourish. This not only changed our fundamental idea of the actor but invited a reinvention of the whole endeavor of telling stories through drama. Teachers would adopt Stanisvlaski’s methods and ideas and elaborate upon them in American theatre schools. The result, in the 1950s, would be a new wave of actors and a style of acting that emphasized psychological realism to a greater degree than their peers in motion pictures. This idea of realism grew to dominate our notion of successful performances in cinema. Stanislavskian-realism is now central to the DNA of how we direct and read performances, whether we are conscious of it or not. I think it is important to know this history and consider its revolutionary character. Understanding the nature of Stanislavski’s insights allows us to look at other unasked questions, other foundational elements of our craft that we might take for granted. — Stanislavski’s books are still fascinating explorations of the craft of performance. Check them out: An Actor Prepares: www.goo.gl/8CR551 Building a Character: www.goo.gl/pZR1U4 Creating a Role: www.goo.gl/ato2rZ The Stanislavsky System: www.goo.gl/JDGkfK — Visual References: A Place in the Sun, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anatomy of a Murder, Baby Doll, Before Sunset, Blue Valentine, Carol, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Daisies, East of Eden, Giant, Grandmother, Kid Auto Races at Venice, Moonlight, On the Waterfront, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Splendor in the Grass, Taxi Driver, The Breaking Point, The Heiress, The Conversation, The Misfits, There Will Be Blood, Twentieth Century, Vaudeville: Early American Entertainment, Wild River — Patreon: http://ift.tt/2rin03Q Twitter: twitter.com/travratc YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/LuxVeritas

YETI and Orvis Present: Andy by Colorblind Media

Renowned photographer Andy Anderson has lived a life of passion, traveling the world to shoot everything under the sun, including fly fishing and wingshooting. He shares some of his thoughts and philosophies about the art form to which he has dedicated his life. Presented by: YETI and Orvis Featuring: Andy Anderson Directed and filmed by: Cavin Brothers and David Mangum Edited by: Reid Ogden and Rita Baucom Music by: Ryan Baucom Production: Colorblind Media Special thanks: Dave Brown Outfitters, Zach Anderson, Michael Perez, Valer Austin, Kevin St. Clair, Owen St. Clair, and Warner Glenn

The School of Life - How to Stop Nagging and Start Teaching by Steve Kirby

Sometimes the commissions that are the most fun are ones where you’re given nothing but a script, with the freedom to construct a visual narrative around it. This short film for the School of Life charts the relationships of two couples engaged in the cycle of nagging.  A shirking husband and his long-suffering wife, and a daughter who has become unreceptive to her mother’s tyrannical lessons. 'Nagging is one of the most understandable but counterproductive patterns of behaviour – that kicks in when we have failed to teach someone what we want and are feeling tired and bruised emotionally. But if we really want others to change, there is no alternative but to gather our strengths and try to convey information in a way that can be understood by someone else.' Designed, Directed, Animated & Produced by: Steve Kirby Written & Narrated by: Alain de Botton Sound Design by: Trevor Richardson / Sonosanctus Additional Animation by: Andrew Embury Client: The School of Life

ISOLA by Neels Castillon

* For a better experience play this film in 4K and use headphones. ••• ' Every time I go back to Sardinia to visit my family, I see this abandoned building in front of the sea. I felt it was the perfect place for Léo Walk and his choreographic imagination to perform, surrounded by the ruins, the surreal light of the costa verde and the intense voice of Mercedes Sosa. It creates this subtle feeling between vitality and melancholy that I wanted to express in this film. Sit back and enjoy! ' ••• ☞ http://ift.tt/2xEMEia ••• Behind The Scenes ☞ http://ift.tt/2yeNOWl Shot in Todd AO anamorphics + Red Helium 8K. Sardinia, September, 2017. ••• Dancer: Léo Walk Director: Neels Castillon Cinematographer: Eric Blanckaert 1st AC: Kevin Rosé 1st AD: Sébastien Rouquet BTS Video: Thibaut Koralewski Location Manager: Alessandro Usai Production Company: http://motionpalace.tv Executive Producer: Ariane Cornic Producer: Marie-Gabrielle Glock Production Coordinator: Sandrine Laveau Post-production: Mikros Image Colourist: Sébastien Mingam VFX: Anthony Lassus Operations manager: Nicolas Daniel Sound Production: Benzene Sound Design: Loic Cavenet Sound mix: Hugo Escuriol Camera & Lenses: RVZ ••• SPECIAL THANKS to Angèle Van Laeken, Lucie Delaye, Thomas Pallas, Samuel Renollet, Frédéric Lombardo, Cédric Dauch, J.M Weston, Franca Usai, B&B La Magnolia, Jean-Lin Roig, Adrien Kamir, Maja Unrug, Alberto Porcedda. ••• MUSIC "Alfonsina Y El Mar" Performed by Mercedes Sosa (P) 1988 PolyGram Discos S.A Courtesy of Universal Music Publishing Films & TV Lyrics & Music by Ariel Ramirez and Falucho Luna © Editorial Lagos Courtesy of Warner Chappell Music France

Envisioning Chemistry: Chemical Garden II by Beauty of Science

When a piece of metal salt is dropped in the solution of sodium silicate, a membrane of insoluble metal silicate is formed. Due to the osmotic pressure, water enters the membrane and breaks it, generating more insoluble membranes. This cycle repeats and the salt grows into all kinds of interesting forms. This film recorded the osmotic growth of 6 salts inside sodium silicate solution. The growth is so life-like, no wonder Stéphane Leduc thought it might have something to do with the mechanism life over 100 years ago. For more films, please visit: http://ift.tt/2xLpVSo Credits Video: Wenting Zhu Producer: Yan Liang

I AM HERE - short film by Eoin Duffy

Alone in an aging cosmos, a traveller’s pilgrimage comes to an end. → http://twitter.com/eoinduffy → http://ift.tt/2zeyFkN CREDITS – WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: Eoin Duffy VOICED: Nicholas Campbell ANIMATION: Eoin Duffy Henrique Barone SOUND DESIGN: John Black ORIGINAL MUSIC: Menalon ADDITIONAL VOICE: Fred Ewanuick (Gerry) STILLS PHOTOGRAPHY: Rosamond Nobury FOLEY: Karla Baumgardner FOLEY RECORDING: Geoffrey Mitchell RE-RECORDING MIXER: Jean Paul Vialard ONLINE EDITOR: Denis Pilon TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Eloi Champagne TECHNICAL COORDINATOR: Steve Hallé TECHNICAL EDIT COORDINATOR: Wes Machnikowski PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Kathleen Jayme STUDIO ADMINISTRATORS: Carla Jones + Rosalina Di Sario + Victoire-Émilie Bessette MARKETING MANAGER: Geneviève Bérard PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR: Jennifer Roworth PRODUCERS: Shirley Vercruysse + Maral Mohammadian EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Shirley Vercruysse + Michael Fukushima

The Postcard by Device

2037. What a great year. It was the year when I travelled to Southeast Asia and I experienced things I will never forget. Luckily, postcards will be always there to remind us that the past, sometimes, is not so different from the future. Or is it? Direction: Device Art Direction: Device Illustration: Device & Toni Sala Animation: David Feliu, Device, Javi Vaquero, Juan Nadalino, Pere Hernández & Sebastian Garcia Clean up: Rafael Andrade & Toni Sala Original Idea: Device & Carlos Serra Script: Carlos Serra Script English Translation: Shaina Machlus. Music y Sound Design: Device Voice Over: Amanda Goldsmith Special thanks: BlackBox, Idea Sonora & Shaina Machlus _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Visit us: http://www.devicers.com Follow us: http://ift.tt/16v62Pv http://ift.tt/1CdZmRZ twitter.com/devicers behance.com/device

The Rabbit Hunt by Topic

In the Florida Everglades rabbit hunting is a rite of passage for young men, practiced since the early 1900s. The Rabbit Hunt follows a family as they hunt in the fields of an industrial sugar farm. This film contains content that may be sensitive to some viewers. Directed by Patrick Bresnan. https://topic.com

Monsoon IV (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 ------- Early on this summer when I found myself down by Santa Rosa, AZ watching a gorgeous hail core fall on the stunning desert landscape, and then later that day staring at a haboob with a stacked shelf cloud above it near the border of Mexico, I had a feeling it would be a unique monsoon. It's funny how every year is different. That's the beauty of chasing the summer storm season out here in the desert southwest. You never know what's going to happen or what you might see. This year I ventured far and wide. Phoenix never saw a good dust storm all summer, but I still was able to capture a few good ones in southwest portions of the state. The cover photo for this film was halfway to Yuma standing in the middle of Interstate 8 watching an ominous wall of dust roll down the highway towards me with lightning flashing behind it. It was an incredible moment. One bonus this summer was a few successful chases up at the Grand Canyon. Finally. A couple of gorgeous sunsets, rain dumping into the Canyon, lightning at night, Milky Way...it all worked out and I'm stoked for the footage I captured there that made it into this film. I also ventured over into New Mexico twice to chase some wonderful, plains-like structure to end the monsoon this year. All told I covered about 13,000 miles and chased as far west as Desert Center, CA, as far east as Wilna, NM and as far north as Tonelea, AZ. And two great storms down in Organ Pipe National Monument, which is only about 10 miles from Mexico. I loved what I saw this year. It felt so unique. I found myself submerged in cacti and desert flora a few times with stunning light and structure. Explored places in New Mexico I hadn't seen before. Smiled at the gasps of amazement from the crowds at the Canyon when a lightning bolt would strike. Finally discovered that the Santa Rosa area is a hotbed for supercell activity. And while it didn't make it on time-lapse, I captured a brief tornado over downtown Phoenix! So...the film. So much effort and energy went into it. I shot over 110,000 frames of time-lapse and likely only half of it ended up in the final cut. The editing has taken me weeks and even right up until Monday evening I was still fixing and tweaking. The music is all custom, thanks to the amazing work of Peter Nanasi. PLEASE check out his website and buy his albums! I love how we work together to develop a track that seems to fit exactly with the clips I capture. I am so incredibly blessed that his work crossed my path. A quick thank-you to the workshop guests I had this summer. You guys were amazing troopers, staying out to all hours and being around for some awesome storms. In fact, I am not sure that I would have even been on the shelf cloud in the final scene of this film if it hadn't been for my workshop. Thank you, thank you! As always though, what made it fun was sharing a lot of it with my kiddos. They made the trip up to the Grand Canyon with me once and it was such a blast of an experience. Asher joined me in New Mexico one day, just he and I, and I got to see his face light up when he captured his first ever lightning strike on video on his little iPad. To my wife Jina...we've come a long, long way since we started this storm chasing journey years ago. It's not been easy all the time, especially with me being on the road so much between April and October these days. But we've slowly figured things out and I'm unbelievably grateful to you for your support and belief in what we're doing together. To everyone else...thank you for your continued support of my work. I am constantly blown-away at the kindness that you show to me. And now...I hope you enjoy this film. 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.

Treated Like We Did Something Wrong | ACLU commission by Daniela Sherer

A short I directed+animated for ACLU. Proud to contribute to this noble cause. David Mullins and Charlie Craig visited Masterpiece Cakeshop in July 2012, with Charlie's mother, to order a cake for their upcoming wedding reception. This is their story. Client: ACLU Animation director: Daniela Sherer Producer: Elyse Kelly Original music: Skillbard Location audio mixer: Molly Kaplan Additional animation: Eli Ben-David Post production sound services: Studio Unknown Re-recording mixer: Matt Davies Sound design & dialogue edit: Cazz Cerkez Audio post coordinator: Jaime Horrigan Audio post office manager: Mandisa Henry

Oliver Jeffers by Bas Berkhout

A short about fine art painter and picture book maker Oliver Jeffers.

Moodles by Ari Weinkle

Moodles is a short animation based on the effects of negative emotions on one's self. It turns built up tension, stress, and anxiety into creative catharsis. Frozen figures – once paralyzed by moods – are reduced to heaps of flexible nothingness. Behance – http://ift.tt/28VLeCT Instagram – http://ift.tt/2921B4I Twitter – http://twitter.com/ariweinkle Facebook – http://ift.tt/28VKIoD WWW – http://ariweinkle.com ✌

GOODBYE, OLD GLORY by Jordan Haro

'Goodbye, Old Glory' is a vérité-style short documentary capturing the protests surrounding the controversial municipal removal of the Jefferson Davis Confederate monument in New Orleans, Louisiana. Shot entirely at night, this film is equal parts entertaining, thought provoking, and downright disturbing. The film objectively balances on-the-fly interviews from both the Confederate protesters and ANTIFA counter-protestors in order to demonstrate the cataclysmic political divide happening across American society today. Directed & Produced by Jordan Haro Edited by James Crouch Cinematography by Jordan Haro, Paavo Hanninen Associate Producers: Sarah Ravits, Jacky Lee Morgan Sound Mix by Korey Pereira @ Soularity Sound Color: Bruce Goodman Assistant Editors: Molly Much, Ryan Medeiros Music Provided by Rose McGowan & Killer Tracks Special Thanks - Dan Carr, Andrew Shapter, Brandon Kapelow, Everyone Who Gave Notes - You Know Who You Are!

ODDBALL by Joshua Moore

A creative profile on Stephen Parr, the Oddball behind San Francisco's Oddball Films. Official Selection: Mill Valley Film Festival, Dallas Video Fest, SF IndieFest, Florida Film Festival, Taos Shortz, Disposable Film Festival.