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The essay film, a form pitched between documentary and personal reflection, exploring the subjectivity of the cinematic perspective, has now become an accepted genre. Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Luc Godard, Errol Morris and Michael Moore are among its main recent exponents, but Chris Marker, who has died aged 91, was credited with inventing the form.

Marker’s creative use of sound, images and text in his poetic, political and philosophical documentaries made him one of the most inventive of film-makers. They looked forward to what is called “the new documentary”, but also looked back to the literary essay in the tradition of Michel de Montaigne. Marker’s interests lay in transitional societies – “life in the process of becoming history,” as he put it. How do various cultures perceive and sustain themselves and each other in the increasingly intermingled modern world?

There is a house built out of stone
Wooden floors, walls and window sills
Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust
This is a place where I don’t feel alone
This is a place where I feel at home

The Cinematic Orchestra is a British jazz and electronic outfit, created in 1999 by Jason Swinscoe. The band is signed to independent record label Ninja Tune. In addition to Swinscoe, the band includes former DJ Food member PC (Patrick Carpenter) on turntables, Luke Flowers (drums), Tom Chant (Saxophone), Nick Ramm (piano), Stuart McCallum (guitar) and Phil France (double bass). Former members include Jamie Coleman (trumpet), T. Daniel Howard (drums), Federico Ughi (drums), Alex James (piano), and Clean Sadness (synthesizer, programming). The most recent addition to the band is Mancunian guitarist Stuart McCallum.

An incredible man.

Help us get Agustin up into a helicopter and help us save the helicopter.
Stricken with Polio Agustin has set out to change his life for the better. For the last 50 years he has focused not on his disabilities but on his dream, his dream to fly.

Why should they be demolished?

“We choose the letters that have character, take them, replace the old neon tubes with LED’s, check that they are ok and put them on our website”, says Aleksi Hautamäki, one of the founders of the Finnish company called Character, which recycles the signs to be used as individual letters. “These pieces of typography are all unique design objects, why should they be demolished?”

Calm.

Artist- J-Punch Song- Temple Fretwell Dub
CD- Electric Calm V.2

mutated limbs are looking for cooperation,

A futuristic vision of a world after a catastrophic disaster. In this dark parable mutated limbs are looking for cooperation, but due to miscommunication this mission is doomed to fail.

The storyline of The Origin of Creatures is based on one of the most well-known tales about collaboration, the Tower of Babel. This tale is transformed and twisted and is set in an imaginary future, after the world is hit by a catastrophe. Among the remains of a devastated city lives that what is left of humanity. Human bodies are divided into separated parts of the body and are fused to special beings. Together, these creatures form a colony, they can only survive when collaborating. In the rubble of destroyed buildings they are trying to build a nest as large and as high as possible, so that the colony’s queen gets enough sunlight to reproduce, but due to miscommunication this mission is doomed to fail.

Credits:

Creator: Floris Kaayk
Produced by: Marc Thelosen
D.O.P.: Reinier van Brummelen
Composer: Lennert Busch
Sounddesign: Bart Jilesen, Erik Griekspoor, Elena Martín Hidalgo
Trainee: Vincent van der Klaauw

a seriousFilm production, 2010
Financially supported: Netherlands Film Fund, Rotterdam Media Fund, Stroom Den Haag

Blast us with wind, melt us with acid, and set us ablaze, and what are we left with? Stick Figure Guy.

Biography:
J-Punch (Justin Katz) a.k.a Hook the Captain has produced two albums and one remix album. Influences: Radiohead, Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana Veteran House Music Producer J-Punch is constantly re-inventing what it is to re-invent one’s self. After several years of thriving in the underground dance music community, having released dozens of tracks through some of the world’s best dance music record labels [System, Global Underground], and having spearheaded one of Washington D.C.’s most successful weekly house music events, Pulse, for over 100 weeks, J-Punch has decided to scientifically engineer a new genre of music.Enlisting the aid of his ghostly writing partner, Dave Moonshine, J-Punch has infused and ensorcelled what would otherwise be known as “Down-Tempo” EDM with abstract and contemplative lyrics that would normally be considered “Alternative Rock”. The duo haphazardly refer to this style as “Alt-Tempo” (or “Down-Rock” if you nasty).J-Punch has been at it for years. He has conquered masses, vanquished impossible odds, and reached the collective unconscious of millions. Yet, at his heart, he is just like the rest of us. Blast us with wind, melt us with acid, and set us ablaze, and what are we left with?Stick Figure Guy. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL. J-Punch

It’s a crazy idea.

Proof-of-concept for a feature about sushi chefs fighting sea monsters.
Watch the Making-Of Video at vimeo.com/51557796

Written & Directed by Dan Blank
Produced by Erich Lochner & Matt Miller
Produced by Dan Blank & Sarah Blank
Cast: Masashi Odate, Steve Howey, Hidetoshi Imura, Gerald Okamura

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Deep and techy

GORAN GETO comes with ‘TEKNOPHONIKA’, a deep and techy full-length 10 song artist album featuring “ROBOTRON”, “DIGITAL DIVINE” and “STROBOSKOP”.

In a futuristic Bangkok where human cyber modification is the norm, Kaye finds himself on the run for stealing a particular augmentation in this visually stunning science fiction thriller.

True Skin, the new special effects driven short from writer/director Stephan Zlotescu, is yet another entry into what is quickly becoming a crowded marketplace. But, as we keep seeing over and over when it comes to the world of short science fiction stunners, Hollywood is most definitely listening.