Nuance - Marc-Antoine Locatelli

Josh and I had a conversation about green screen heavy movies recently and talked about how actors have to act to surroundings that are missing. Like the director is calling out "good... good... now look out there is a spooky ghost behind you!!!" and the actor is expected to show real fear.

In this example the choreography was designed on the faith of the tracker/animator. Without which this would have been very very silly. This looks like it would have been a blast to edit and reminds me of Chris Cunningham's particular style of cutting to disjointed electronic music.

Nuance from Marc-Antoine Locatelli on Vimeo.

The Chasing Tool According to Gijs Bakker

I was thinking about the properties of the Cartoon Network Rebrand post from Chris and wondered "what would that look like on film?" Not only is this an example of what a similar technique would look like on film but what it would look like used with an interview. Do you think it works?

On Design: “The Chasing Tool According to Gijs Bakker” by Stefan Heinrichs - NOWNESS from NOWNESS on Vimeo.

NECRONOMICA

A great "you can't judge a book by it's cover" story. Turns out metal guys are just like you and me. The writing is great and the performances are fun. This is the most "evil" short I've seen in a while...

I love all the little things (the upside down cross in their apartment, the way they drink from straws so they don't mess up their black metal make up).

NECRONOMICA from Kyle Bogart on Vimeo.

Anthony Scott Burns - MANIFOLD

These two teasers are blowing my mind. The first two establishing shots that involve cars are just incredible. And I'm very quickly looking forward to filming something "meant" for black and white. The compositions are out of control; I want to shoot like this...

However, I don't see why this person would want anyone to embed his stuff. I apologize for the hyperlinks...

MANIFOLD - Teaser 1

MANIFOLD - Teaser 2

The Orwells - Blood Bubbles

This honestly blew me away in its dichotomy of innocence in image, and heaviness of lyrics.

The ORWELLS - Blood Bubbles from Eddie O'KEEFE on Vimeo.

The Presets "Ghosts"

Nicole introduced me to the term 'data mashing'. The process is basically messing with code within the video file itself and seeing what wacky things happen. I have seen it best used when there is a lasting image from the modified clip and the shifting pixels of the new video distort and rip it apart.... I guess its just one of those things you have to see to understand.



The Presets "Ghosts" from Abteen Bagheri on Vimeo.

Chicago Lights Photography

B&W series by Satoki Nagata that are noir reminiscent and hauntingly beautiful

Guinness: Clock - Made of More campaign

Clock (Guinness) from DTan on Vimeo.

What English sounds like to Italians

I love this song.

New 'Effin York

I like how the typography is integrated into the scene. It is dramatic, and feels like it's in motion. Imagine if this were a movie title? The smoke would roll in and the frame would freeze on this shot with the title, hold for 3 seconds, then unfreeze and roll on.

Movie Titles Collection

Thanks for finding this really cool resource, Dave!

Buster Keaton genius

I love how the parameter of no sound gave birth to this overt style of storytelling. Buster Keaton's athleticism and character development abilities amaze me.

Aesop Rock "None Shall Pass"

Raven wishing to imitate the eagle.

Beautiful animation and story in this short. The movement and transitions with negative space are amazing.

Patina

The case for not using a case. Beautiful patina.

WoodKid - Run Boy Run

Woodkid - Run Boy Run (Official Video HD) from WOODKID on Vimeo.

Nuit Blanche

Micky Rourke came up in conversation the other day - anytime that happens my mind goes right to Sin City. Damn, I love that film. Its gritty, dark, at times ultra violent, and everyone sounds like they smoke a pack of cigarettes before every scene. I'm a sucker for the noir genre as a whole. I would love to do some super stylized composting work. Here is another great example I found a year ago.

 This is more subtle, so much goes on without ever saying a single word.


Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

The Watchmaker

Nothing ground-breaking here. Just a cool story about a watchmaker. It is sort of the quintessential "DSLR-shot-mini-documentary", but I like that it's about a guy who's making something by hand.