The Majestic Plastic Bag – A Mockumentary
We seem to cover stories of plastic bags more often than you’d think.
Heimo’s Arctic Refuge: Full Length
Not for the faint of heart.
In 1980, Jimmy Carter established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Alaskan Interior, cutting off 19 million acres of prime boreal wilderness from the mitts of fur trappers, oil tycoons, and would-be lodge owners alike. Only six families of white settlers were grandfathered in and allowed to keep cabins in the refuge—of them, only one still stays there year-round living off the land. His name is Heimo Korth, and he is basically the Omega Man of America’s Final Frontier.
Bowerbirds “In Our Talons”
The ending is beautifully tragic. Thanks for taking such bold chances.
Becoming
A beautifully conceived dance film with steadicam work that is out of this world.
The American Dollar
Switch to fullscreen, it is gorgeous. Powerful stuff.
After hearing work from ‘The American Dollar’ we really felt the urge to create a music video for one of their new songs. Inspired by the music we had the idea of making a decaying world. One single cameramovement from left to right, showing a landscape, looping 9 times. Day becomes night and even the seasons go by. After we finished the production, we decided to reverse the whole video. This gives you a seamingly happy end, but you know what’s going to happen. There are no lyrics and we did not pay attention to the title of the song, we just felt this was the right thing to do.
(via Andy Coon)
Sweet Dreams
A stalwart cupcake yearning to find something beyond his world of sugar cube skyscrapers and frosting-covered friends. When his makeshift boat crashes on foreign shores, he makes a shocking discovery that changes him forever.
A stop animated short film by Kirsten Lepore.
Watch Sweet Dreams.
Spiders On Drugs
This is old but I just saw and laughed my ass off! Thanks Mags!
Earth – The Pale Blue Dot
Can’t resist Carl Sagan’s voice and timelapse combo. Via Gruber.
Chiapas, Sak Tzevul
Some astonishing imagery from Frank Beltrán. Compression is very harsh on some sequences, but whatever…
Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean’s Blue Hole
Wow! World champion freediver Guillaume Nery dives into pure darkness.
(via Duncan)
Another Story Without Words
(via Ehrensenf)
The Light of Life
One of the best!
Plastic Bag
I loved Goodbye Solo and Chopshop which Roger Ebert said was one of the top 10 films of the past decade. Here, Director Ramin Bahrani uses a plastic bag to tell an intricate story on dying and the environment. Legendary director Werner Herzog does the voice-over.
Tungijuq
A raw (but refined (but raw)) short film by Felix and Paul featuring Tanya Tagaq.
Watch Tungijuq (MPEG-4).
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