Dec 29 2009

Interview with Chao Gan: Watching films is like dreaming

Chao Gan’s striking documentary The Red Race was the winner of Zagreb Film Festival in 2008. This year Gan was a jury member in documentary competition of the same festival. It was really a great opportunity to talk with him about his career, The Red Race and development of documentary genre in China.

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Dec 26 2009

Body cinema: Guys and Dolls

Nick Holt’s debut documentary ‘Guys and Dolls’ is certainly one of those films that is fillin’ comments section on most blogs where reviews of this film were published. Let’s check what’s the whole fuss about?!

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Dec 24 2009

Visualizations by Esteban Diácono and Alain Lores

Visualizations and infographics always make me warm at heart. Browsing through Vimeo has brought me two amazing visualization animators and video makers, Esteban Diácono and Alain Lores. Happy holidayz, my dear readerz!

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Dec 22 2009

Pocket cinema: Cornelis by Ayaka Nakata

Japanese animated film Cornelis by Ayaka Nakata has won the Award for Excellence at last year’s edition of Asia Digital Award in the Moving Images category… it’s a classic animated film ‘that stems from a foundation of dance choreography’, as nicely said by people form Cartoon Brew.

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Dec 18 2009

Interview with Helena Bulaja, part II: Tesla had Internet in his head!

This is the second part of the interview with multimedia artist Helena Bulaja entitled Tesla had internet in his head! Read here the first part…

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Dec 18 2009

Interview with Helena Bulaja, part I: Tesla had Internet in his head!

If I will ever get a postcard directly from the Moon, I will immediately know that I got it from Helena Bulaja. She’s the only artist I know capable for such thing. I promised you, dear readers, while I blogged about Mechanical Figures – twentythousandcycles.NET – Helena’s latest multimedia artwork, that I will bring her here for a talk on film, new media  and, of course, Nikola Tesla…

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