Filmmaker Videos
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A Real-World Look at Magic Leap’s Augmented Reality
With backing from Google, Andreessen Horowitz, Qualcom and movie studio Legendary Entertainment — and an on-staff Chief Futurist in the form of science-fiction author Neal Stephenson — the somewhat mysterious Magic Leap is one of the most fascinating tech start-ups around. For the vision — not virtual reality but augmented reality — the company is going for, check out their startling home-page. For the current reality, check out the video above, which is a real-world demo of some galaxy clusters hovering over an ordinary workspace. For an explanation of why this simple video is more impressive than the rigged concept […]
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Short Film: Dustin Guy Defa’s Review
Any filmmaker who has been around the block knows something about reactions to films — when you’re first praised for the cinematography, something has gone wrong. And when a critic spends more time on plot description than on analysis or commentary, well, then, he or she is just aiming to hit their word count. I thought of these two truisms while watching Review, the latest short from Filmmaker 25 New Face Dustin Guy Defa. Watch it above.
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Carla Forte’s Ann on Indiegogo
Miami-based filmmaker Carla Forte is one of the three filmmakers I’ll be speaking to tomorrow night at the Miami Beach Cinematheque, and our talk sits right in the middle of the Indiegogo campaign for her latest feature, Ann. Forte is a performer, screenwriter and director, as well as Executive Director of Bistoury Physical Theatre and Film. Read the information below, check out the video above and consider donating to her campaign. From Forte’s Indiegogo page: Ann is a feature film narrating the story of Ruben, a lower-class visual artist who has decided to abandon his tormented life by taking refuge […]
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Watch: Arnaud Desplechin on Notting Hill’s Perfect Metaphor for Cinema
Director Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale, the excellent forthcoming My Golden Years) is a voraciously catholic viewer in his tastes; see, for example, this recent interview where he talks up the virtues of Superbad and Dazed and Confused relative to French coming-of-age films. So it’s not necessarily surprising that he’s a Notting Hill fan, but his explanation of how one scene uses Julia Roberts’ hidden nudity as a metaphor for cinema itself (!) will definitely throw you for an interpretive loop.
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Kentucker Audley Wants You to Support the Movies on Kickstarter
Kentucker Audley might have been reading Mike Ryan’s “TV is Not the New Film,” in which the producer concedes that TV is dominating our cultural conversation right now. And he’s decided to do something about it. Audley has taken to Kickstarter to sell a simple item of apparel that will tell the world that, yes, you’re a movie fan.
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Dissolve – Like Having a Free Footage Researcher on Crew (Sponsored Post)
Maybe you’re storyboarding and know you need a Venice aerial. Or you’re in post and realize a cutaway would make all the difference. When time is at a premium, budget at a minimum, and those shots are non-existent, Dissolve’s free research service can help. Creative thinkers themselves, Dissolve’s research team will work with your storyboard, shot list, even one specific clip request to find the stock footage you need. You’ll get only the best results — no wading through pages and pages of irrelevant content. The team works quickly too, usually delivering within one day. Ally Oleynik, a producer at […]
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Trailer Watch: Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights
It’s easy to take Frederick Wiseman for granted when he churns out nonfiction masterpieces at such a hair raising clip, but his latest, In Jackson Heights, is not to be missed. At once a paean and an elegy to the Queens neighborhood, Jackson Heights tracks the gentrification of the historically multicultural area, and the grassroots resistance among its immigrant and queer communities. It opens at New York’s Film Forum on November 4.
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Trailer Watch: Sofia Coppola’s A Very Murray Christmas
There is really no reason for us not to post a trailer for a forthcoming “holiday special” directed by Sofia Coppola and designed expressly as a hang-out vehicle for Bill Murray. Judging by the fact that A Very Murray Christmas has an actual plot and a lot of shadowy interior lighting, it would seem that Coppola has effectively made her next medium-/feature- length film rather than dashing off a simple TV assignment. It drops December 4.
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Music Video: David Gilmour Meets Ornana with “The Girl in the Yellow Dress”
Ben Weissner and the gang at Ornana — Filmmaker 25 New Faces in 2012 — have just passed along this video for “The Girl in the Yellow Dress,” a single from Pink Floyd guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour’s new solo album. Explains Weissner about the video’s hand animation: His creative team had seen Confusion Through Sand (which has been re-edited to play at his live concerts) and were drawn to the dimensionality and movement in that style, so they asked if we’d bring a similar technique to their song. The music video is made of about 9.000 frames of animation that were […]
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With Surreal Short Films and Spiky New Fonts, Jonathan Glazer and Neville Brody Rebrand U.K.’s Channel 4
Under the Skin filmmaker Jonathan Glazer and design hero Neville Brody, alongside creative agencies 4Creative and DBLG have “rebranded” iconic U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 with jagged new fonts and a deliriously weird, vaguely Kubrick-ian series of station IDs. Glazer’s four narratively-linked shorts fit more comfortably into his recent film work than they do any kind of television advertising, with their mysterious creatures, magenta rock formations and high-tech science laboratories. As for the fonts, well, back in the day, we at Filmmaker used to spend late nights with our late, great designer Wayne Van Acker geeking out over Brody’s work for […]
