Mar
14
2010
Erick Oh is an award winning animation artist based in Los Angeles whose films have been regularly screened at festivals such as Annecy Animation Festival, SIGGRAPH, Anima Mundi, Ars Electronica, LACMA Director’s Night… For Symphony he has received tones awards during 2009 and 2010.

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Mar
9
2010
I’m not counting anymore how many films I watch during festivals, especially because I like them both, long and short films. Now, when ZagrebDox is behind me, I can start with my fresh documentary coverage for this season…

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Mar
8
2010
A short 3D film about Tango and a passionate couple of dancers entitled En Tus Brazos (In Your Arms), directed by François-Xavier Goby, Edouard Jouret and Matthieu Landour in Spanish-French coo-production to warm our frozen limbs as well as for speeding up blood in our veins in this marble cold evening…

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Mar
7
2010
George Quasha’s video installation ‘art is (Speaking Portraits)’ belongs to the series of video projects (‘art is’, ‘music is’, ‘poetry is’, ‘myth is’, and ongoing project ‘freedom is’). Quasha asks artists one simple question: what art is? The project includes more then 700 international artists, poets and composers…
George Quasha is a contemporary artist and poet in constant search for interlaced forms of expressiveness…

Photos by Claudinka taken from flickr (c)
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Feb
28
2010
This week I’m going to be mostly concentrated on watching great documentary films at the festival ZagrebDox… Thus, this post is strongly connected with its programme… Camilla Nielsson will present within the programme her latest film ‘Cities on Speed – Mumbai Disconnected‘… and as an intro to moviecholic atmosphere here is her award winning documentary from 2007 ‘The Children of Darfur’…

Photo above: Excerpt from the film The Children of Darfur
Photo bellow: Georgina Cranston (c) taken from UNICEF
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