Filmmaker Videos
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Saving Lincoln Director Salvador Litvak on CineCollage
The last nine months or so have seen the release of a number of films about Abraham Lincoln, the latest of which is the indie Saving Lincoln, currently in theaters. The movie is a unique visual experience as a result of its groundbreaking use of archival photographs and green screen. You can see in the video above how much of the movie’s world was created, while below Saving Lincoln‘s director, Salvador Litvak, shares how he came up with the film’s innovative process, CineCollage. My new film, Saving Lincoln, was made within photographs of the American Civil War. Combining elements of theater and […]
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Craig Zobel’s Iggy Pop Videos
Indie directors have to take on all kinds of soulless commercial work in order to pay the bills. But I suspect that Compliance writer/director Craig Zobel didn’t have too terrible a time making these videos for the upcoming release of Iggy and the Stooges’ new record, Ready to Die…
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TIZA’s DSLR Clapperboard App
I tend to be a little skeptical about all the apps out there that aren’t particularly useful and don’t really merit existence. But I must admit this clapperboard app from the British company TIZA does seem to pretty cool and should streamline workflow for shoots using a DSLR.
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Genre at the 2013 Oscars: Live Action Short Death of a Shadow
The Oscars are not generally considered a crucial event for genre lovers; the inclusion of such films is often limited, and often ghettoized, relegated to technical awards only. This year there are several films in requisite categories like Makeup and Hairstyling, and Visual Effects (whose nominees include The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Avengers, Snow White and the Huntsman, and Prometheus). Another good category where one can snoop out genre fare is in Best Animated Film, and 2013 doesn’t disappoint, with the lovingly crafted and decidedly Gothic take on suburbia in ParaNorman and Tim Burton’s tale of a boy and […]
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SXSW Trailer Watch: Zach Clark’s White Reindeer
As I mentioned when I recommended this film’s Kickstarter campaign, I love depressing Christmas movies. At the time, its writer/director, Zach Clark (Vacation, Modern Love is Automatic), wrote, “White Reindeer takes on thirty-as-the-new-twenty and shows a suburban Virginia where sleaze and sadness may float on the surface, but hope and compassion aren’t too far away either.” From the trailer, I’d say he’s nailed it. Check it out above and the film itself at SXSW.
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Trailer Watch: Burning Man Doc, As the Dust Settles
We’ve featured the work of filmmaker Mike Hedge on the site before, and he’s just forwarded the trailer for his “participatory documentary” shot at Burning Man, As the Dust Settles. It premieres next week at the Byron Bay Film Festival in Australia. From the site: Following a simple rule of working on this participatory documentary 50% of the time, we captured our life-changing experiences at the annual arts festival held in northern Nevada, known as Burning Man. Our documentary reveals an intimate glimpse of what we discovered about love, creativity, community, the environment, the art, the gift economy, and reality. […]
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Google Glass Releases New Demo Video, Offers Contest for Early Access
Google has released a new video demonstrating its Google Glass and is launching a new campaign, “If I Had Glass,” offering creative people a chance to buy the product early. Read details at the link but, in short, you have 50 words on Twitter or Google + to say what you’d do using Glass, the deadline is February 27, and, if selected, you have to pre-order Glass for $1,500.
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Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Featurette on David Riker’s The Girl
Fourteen years after making an impressive directorial debut with La Ciudad, David Riker is returning with his second feature, an unlikely border tale starring Abbie Cornish. In the following exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette, Riker discusses the research he did and reveals how he conceived the story of the film.
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A Haunting New York Shot in HDR on the RED Epic-X
Filmmaker Colby Moore has shot an eerie New York montage in high-dynamic range on the RED Epic-X. Underneath his Vimeo video he explains his process: A short and creepy montage of scenes shot around the ever-photogenic island of Manhattan — filmed entirely in high-dynamic range and comprised of some HDR Timelapse footage I shot, along with a collection of slow-motion and normal 24fps footage processed from Red Epic-X RAW video that I recently captured and then exported as -2,0+2 TIFF stacks to be tone mapped in Photomatix using a batch processing workflow. Please note that none of this was shot […]
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Trailer Watch: Danny Boyle’s Trance
Danny Boyle’s latest film snuck up on us, being added to the release schedule a few weeks ago after flying below the radar. This red-band trailer for Trance, which stars James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel, makes it seem like an enjoyably pulpy venture into genre territory.
