Dec
29
2009
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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no comments | tags: atheletes, chao gan, children, china, cinematography, documentary, education, film, gymnastics, interviews, red race, sport, zagreb film festival | posted in body, culture, documentary film, film, interviews, kids, sport
Dec
26
2009
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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1 comment | tags: behaviour, bizzare, body, body cinema, documentary film, dolls, film, guys and dolls, men, nick holt, plastic partners, relationships, sex, silicon love | posted in body, body cinema, documentary film, film
Dec
24
2009
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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no comments | tags: alain lores, animation, design, esteban diácono, film, graphic design, infographics, vimeo, visual art, visualization | posted in animated film, art, design, film, media art, new media, new media art, visual art, visualization, web
Dec
22
2009
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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no comments | tags: 2D, animated film, animation, ayaka nakata, choreography, cornelis, dance, film, japanese, movements, pocket cinema | posted in animated film, dance, film, pocket cinema
Dec
18
2009
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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3 comments | tags: andy serkis, animation, artist, bill weimann, christopher priest, douglas rushkoff, experimental film, film, helena bulaja, interactive, interviews, laurie anderson, marina abramovic, mechanical figures, multimedia, new media art, nikola tesla, terry gilliam | posted in animated film, art, art & science & technology, computer games, culture, film, interactive design, interviews, kids, media art, net.art, new media, new media art, ubiquitous computing, visual art
Dec
18
2009
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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4 comments | tags: andy serkis, animation, artist, bill weimann, christopher priest, douglas rushkoff, experimental film, film, helena bulaja, hiroshima matsumoto, interactive, interviews, laurie anderson, marina abramovic, mechanical figures, multimedia, new media art, nikola tesla, terry gilliam | posted in animated film, art, art & science & technology, computer games, culture, film, interactive design, interviews, kids, media art, net.art, new media, new media art, ubiquitous computing, visual art, web