One Show – Paul Rand Tribute Film (2007)
Wow. The graphics and the video is as worthy as its great subject.
A 4 minute short about Paul Rand created for his posthumous induction to the One Club Hall of Fame in 2007. Produced for Imaginary Forces by Cara McKenney and executive produced by Maribeth Phillips. Additional I.F. credits go to designer/animators Joey Salim, Jeremy Cox and Liz Centolella and animators Andrew Chung, Sean Eno and Chase Massingill. It was edited by I.F.’s Corey Weisz, with sound design by Derek Lee.
Duelity
Marcos “Boca” Ceravolo and Ryan Ulrich present a clever motion piece that tells the story about the universe origin. With a twist.
“Duelity tells the creationist’s version of the beginning of the universe using the language of science while simultaneously presenting a scientific cosmology using biblical lingo.”
via ComputerLove and MotionoGrapher
The Story – Listening to Nazis
I am a big fan of Dick Gordon. I am always amazed how one program can find that many great stories. Anyways, in a recent episode, Gordon interviews Henry Kolm, a Austrian Jew who witnessed the Nazi invasion and had to flee to America as young kid. Incredibly, as a adult, he was recruited by the American armed forces to interrogate captured German officers.
Currently, it is impossible to get through any respectable news program and not hear how America should interrogate (torture) its captured militants . Kolm has plenty of insight into of all of this. His experiences on his life and also torture are priceless. Kolm is against torture, besides it being the wrong thing to do, he believes you can never trust information that comes from such methods. But another point, a more subtle one, is that war has changed drastically from less than a century ago. Kolm doesn’t think the Al Qaeda’s of the world should be treated as soldiers because they are fundamentally different from Nazi’s. War and how it is conducted is on the slide, after a brief show of civility, we have regressed into being…idiots.
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The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
Go for it! (Flash Video)
Homophopaedia
That’s the name of the game. The rules are simple: I’ll give you the pieces, and you link them as you prefer.
Watch Conservapedia vs Wikipedia.
Watch Middle Sexes: Homophobia Experiment.
Watch A Brief History of Violence.
Watch We Are One Planet.
What a Freegan Waste
What is a Freegan? And why are so many of them popping up all over the place?
Directors Notes posted this half hour documentary by Craig Rook about people that, in their own way, fight actively the environmental disaster.
Grab the short here.
Interview with the author here.
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
From Wikipedia:
a short documentary film directed by Les Blank in 1980 which depicts director Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.
An absolute classic. Another chapter in the illustratious life of Herzog.
Protagonist
Incredibly interesting.
Explores extremism and the limits of certainty. Inspired by Greek drama, this visually inventive documentary weaves the stories of four men – a German terrorist, a bank robber, an “ex-gay” evangelist, and a martial arts student consumed by personal odysseys.
Reminds me of the Errol Morris film “Fast, Cheap & Out of Control”, which was great.
Pat Condell: Was Jesus Gay?
… and what would it matter if he was?
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Do It Your Own Damn Self!
In an industry where filmmakers continue to play by the same tired rules, it’s always refreshing to see someone come along and mix things up like Michael W. Dean has done, making his documentary [D.I.Y. OR DIE: How To Survive as an Independent Artist] fully available to watch on YouTube and, consequentially, here as well. In a similar move to recording artists like Radiohead or Saul Williams, you can watch Michael’s documentary for free, and always purchase a DVD if you so feel like doing so. Either way, you will get to see it.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
via GreenCine Daily
Clinton Got A Blowjob
The first video version of Eric Schwartz’s funny diddy about the crimes of Clinton and Dubya compared.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
via svarten
How Presidents Keep Spinning You to Death
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
The documentary written and directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, is available on Google Video.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
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The Kingdom
Motionographer caught the opening titles for The Kingdom, which also seem to be the best part of the movie…
An entertaining and informative sequence which focuses on the United States’ involvement in Saudi Arabia during the last century, realized at PIC Agency.
Watch it. (Flash Video, Quicktime)
Necessary(?) Censorship
Evidence number one: Sally Field on Fox at the Emmy Awards 07.
Censored – Uncensored (on CTV)
Evidence number two: Iraq for Sale at the Congress. Republicans insisted this not be shown.
Ninja Warrior (Sasuke) Makoto Nagano
Posting will be slow till next weekend, I am in the midst of shooting a film. The biggest production I have been able to have as a director. After what felt like a grueling day, it so nice to check your RSS feed and find one of my favorite bloggers is back to blogging and posting stuff like this.
Makoto Nagano is the 2nd guy to ever beat the Sasuke Obstacle Course! 2nd out of 2,400 people!
I am certainly impressed by the guy. No doubt, he’s got game, Ninja game. But I was impressed with the design of the obstacle course. I would love to try it. Not sure I would complete it but it sure looks like fun.
Watch it – more info on the event
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