Feb 28 2010

Pocket cinema: The Children of Darfur by Camilla Nielsson

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’…

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

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Feb 22 2010

Interview with Mika Miyabara & Tatsuo Sugimoto: Bouncing Pixels and Images

Ooh la la… another interesting interview taken during Device_art 3.009Mika Miyabara and Tatsuo Sugimoto are media artists from Japan who have been working on visual interactive projects since 2001.

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Bounce Street exhibited on Device_art 3.009
photo taken from flickr: Movie Cards Project (c)

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Jan 1 2010

Pocket cinema: Short films by Clement Morin

Clement Morin’s films are creative, smart and a perfect example of  good story telling in the genre of short film… What’s particularly interesting in his style is the fact that his style is always dedicated to narration… doesn’t matter how abstract the story goez…

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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 carrier, The Red Race and development of documentary genre in China.

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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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