Dizzying visions

Shortfilms May 4th 2012 Callum Cooper is, according to his website, an artist and filmmaker based in London/Melbourne. His video work plays with the camera as a tool and with the perspective of the film. Full Circle, the one posted above, is a pretty simple idea, but it’s still a dizzying experience watching people jump rope all over the world. Full Circle, and… Continue

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The speedy way to read Hemingway

Animation Apr 10th 2012 You should respect the classics for what they are, and I reckon you should give an equal amount of attention to those that can reinvigorate the same. This is what Marcel Schindler ’s stop motion film “The Old Man and the Sea” does to the novel by Hemingway, same title. Marcel’s version clocks in at four minutes and tells… Continue

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Exposing the hidden

Technology Feb 8th 2012 Humans are all in all pretty awesome creatures. We’re pretty smart and we seem to have reached a point where we’ve built things we simply cannot use our ordinary sense to detect, so instead we’ve built devices to detect other devices for us, making them visible to us. Wi-Fi is just one example of a massive network,… Continue

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Slam Poetry in Hong Kong

Music Dec 1st 2011 So this might not be the freshest video I’ve ever posted, but it’s been a favourite of mine since I found it a year ago. MC Yan does some slam poetry in this video called One Take Slam Jam in Hong Kong, and comments on the island as he sees it. It has a turbulent past and shows in… Continue

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How old-skool(er) are you?

Shortfilms Nov 14th 2011 One of the biggest issues all subcultures have to deal with when mainstream finds them, is the simple question; how do we keep our soul from being swallowed by the big mainstream machine? What can we do to make sure that our passion, our goals for our art form, our way of life is kept intact and not… Continue

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