Todd Tinkham - Alexa
In many ways the film is a series of paintings strung up to tell a story. There are the talking hats, the underwater world, and then the touch. Beautiful. Evocative. Powerful.
Knife Dancing
A ritual of passage for a South Korean girl requires dancing barefoot on top of sharp knives.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Nocturne no. 248
Michael Theodore (previously: Color Dream #246) updated with a new short movie.
Catch it on his website. (If the download doesn’t work or is slow, try here as well.)
Color Dream N°246
Download the Quicktime file, put it in your iPod and play it when you need some tranquility or beauty in your life. Stunning colors that move like streams of water during and after a rainstorm. The colors are great but the movements affect me more.
The creator, Michael Theodore, briefly talks about the technique on Antville.
Yeasayer - 2080
Beautifully done. Not sure if the video and song actually flow together but the video has some incredible imagery.
Watch it - Thanks Sarah.
Hubert Robert. A Fortunate Life.
Aleksandr Sokurov’s personal essay on the the work of French painter Hubert Robert (1733–1808) begins with scenes from a Japanese play filmed in slow motion. Robert’s pictorial world unfolds as we enter landscapes, grandiose architectures, and ruins — until a “meeting” between Sokurov and Robert incorporates the painter’s work within the filmmaker’s own. With a sound track of music by Albinoni, Glinka, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky combined with the sounds of storms, rain, and birds, the film evokes the mysterious links between biography and autobiography.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
India Then and Now
Tobias Stretch - Illuminant
One of the most visually striking films I have ever seen. Films are often described as dreamlike for a lack of words. Not the case with Illuminant which is certainly dreamlike. I don’t necessarily see my dreams in stop-motion but some of the imagery and feel of dreams would be impossible to recreate in another form.
Like dreams, some of the images from this film stick and others fade. Watching it again, I was once again surprised, reminded of why I loved it the first time. It begs to be seen over and over again. When the deer (?) drops the baby off, the camera movement following the deer and then back towards the wheelchair was beautiful. The snow, the face of the robot (?) and the glowing animal at the end are just tremendous. Everything screams originality here, the kind that comes from a deep creative force instead of a filmmaking sensibility.
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Tiny Tim singing on Rowin and Martins’ Laugh-In.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
I can never get tired of timelapse
From the guys that brought you this, here is another timelapse and warm classical music mix.
More from Philip Bloom
I pointed to Philip Bloom’s Piccadilly Furs earlier, a simple but beautiful test shoot for a camera. One of the best shooters I have seen, here are more examples of what I mean:
- Snippets from a five part series of shorts on Religion for Channel Five
- Kew Gardens in Winter
- Lost Times (scroll down)
There is nothing action-packed in these links. The meditative pleasure lies in the beauty of nature and photography.
Lantern Fish
What a great way to learn! You get a sense of proportion and it is visually fun.
Domestic Safari
What if we started to see the material worlds of domestic settings as wild places? Is there a potential for the exotic and uncanny in the inconspicuously mundane?
The film is made up of three excursions in three homes from three countries (Körsbärsvägen, Sweden; La Casa di Sara, Italy; Kostonniemi, Finland) accompanied by a soundtrack realized just like the images: snippets recorded on location are decomposed and mixed together.
Images by Anders Weberg. Sound by Robert Willim.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Download as Quicktime or Winmedia.
via MovingWeb
The Life
It is more of a poem than a film, directed by Jun Ki-Kim. About the glory of work.
M.I.A - “Jimmy”
M.I.A’s music has grown on me. I always found her interesting and cute. Her music was full of potential, I thought. But I think my senses needed a little training. Her second CD is a classic. “Paper Plane” is one of the strangest gems you will find. People are always disturbed at the gunshots but after a while, as it did with me, you get comfortable with it (which is disturbing in itself).
The “Jimmy” video seems like a half-attempt at parodying Bollywood movies. The other big inspiration is clearly the Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva video. Maybe the Sri Lankan beauty reads TickleBooth!
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