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Being A Fish In Japan

DeK — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:29:26 +0000

Submarine Channel presents Being A Fish In Japan: “Whimsical tales from fish obsessed Japan”. A “minimovie” directed by Mischa Kamp and Mascha Halberstad and consisting of five segments, posted below, with a nice stop animated title sequence.

The Secret Powers of Time

DeK — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:41:05 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

via Sikk Days

Up There

DeK — Sun, 09 May 2010 06:07:37 +0000

A beautiful documentary on the lost art of painted advertising produced as part of The Ritual Project sponsored by Stella Artois and directed by Malcolm Murray.

Watch it. [Up There website]

Driftless: Stories from Iowa

Ajit — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:27:21 +0000

Not a lick of music till the very end. The silence, intermingled with the subjects speaking, is very effective. Of course, the imagery is just tremendous. Beautiful, something I’d love to imitate.

Watch it.

David Lynch Interview Project

Ajit — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:45:53 +0000

It will be interesting to see where this goes.

Watch it.

Lingerie made in Pakistan

Ajit — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:09:17 +0000

Hilarious that the workers have no idea what they are making. Wouldn’t this video get the owners in hot water?

Watch it – via Kottke.

Playground – Trailer

Nils — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:41:01 +0000

Appalled by modern day sex slavery, filmmaker Libby Spears began a covert investigation to document the worldwide child sex trafficking problem, and to see how and if it led back to the United States.

Watch the moving trailer to the upcoming documentary and visit the official website to support the project.

Watch it

Pure Detroit

Ajit — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:12:56 +0000

Pure Detroit from Ivan George.

Gorgeous cinematography that hints at social change. Somewhere between heaven, hell & quiet meditation.

The New Pop – Heading to the innaugaration

Ajit — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:36:00 +0000

I have seen so much coverage about the innaugaration of Barack Obama but this is clearly the best. Trevz, an African American New Yorker goes to Washington D.C to experience the once in a life time moment for himself. We don’t have the great technology wizardry of the network cable news do but here is a perspective that is much truer to the experience.

Watch Part one, two, three, four.

Kicking It

Ajit — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:38:45 +0000

Feature length doc.

In the summer of 2006, while the football world’s attention was focused on Germany, thousands of players around the globe were training hard and competing to be part of another World Cup … The Homeless World Cup. It had been a wild idea by a Scot and an Austrian—to give homeless people a chance to change their lives through an international street soccer competition. Five years later, the annual Homeless World Cup had become an internationally recognized sports competition. 500 homeless players from 48 nations would ultimately be selected to represent their country in Cape Town, South Africa – coming from such disparate parts of the world as war torn Afghanistan, the slums of Kenya, the drug rehab clinics of Dublin, Ireland, the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, the overflowing public shelters of Madrid, Spain, and the unforgiving city of St. Petersburg, Russia, where the homeless have no rights or identity. Win or lose, for these players it would be the journey of a lifetime.

Watch it.