the-future-of-moving-pictures
Kubrick Is Always Leading Us Into the Distance With the Forbidden Fruit of Filmmaking
Turn off that unstoppable strain of now fully-schlocked music (try "this":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPgwF3G5i4k instead) and see the linchpin that binds many of Stanley Kubrick's iconic shots in this "fan-made trailer":https://vimeo.com/kogonada...
You Fat Slob, Troma Just Released 150 Films On YouTube
Wow, you guys. Great news. You no longer have to go to the beach this holiday weekend. That's right, you can save people the trouble of commenting on your horrible posture and translucent skin; instead, take that satchel of grillables and drag it into...
Inside the Empathy Machine: Going Face-in-Face with Megan May Daalder
Megan May Daalder is a young artist in Los Angeles who is responsible for the Mirrorbox, a hands-on piece that uses two-way mirrors and a lighting sequence to allow two participants to momentarily blend their faces together in a genuinely arresting...
Substitutional Reality Is the Acid Trip You Never Had
If a man in a white coat put a camera-equipped helmet on your head and told you to trust everything you saw as reality, wouldn't you feel a little funny? And then wouldn't you be a little tripped out when they took it off and try to distinguish what...
Disney Is Cloning Human Heads, Ought to Rename Itself Tyrell Corporation
Nestled in the Alps in a pair of nondescript clapboard houses marked only with a set of Mickey Mouse ears, Disney researchers are up to no good. This is the home of Disney's Zurich lab, one of six that the nearly 90-year-old company maintains around...
Chris Marker Built Time Machines With Film and Put His Brain on CD-ROMs
Chris Marker, who just died at 91 in Paris, played with reality in his documentaries, but he could not be accused of fabulism or plagiarism. He didn't pretend to be accurate or fair. Even his name was fake -- Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve...
Unearthing NASA's Earliest Time-Lapse Flyover Videos
Flying, spinning, falling. Repeat. Going to space in the early days seems even less like some graceful parting ways with gravity and atmosphere than in launch/orbit footage we see now. It looks more like riding an old rickety roller coaster, but the...
Watch This Trailer: Holy Shit, "Cloud Atlas" Is Going to Be Insane
Tom Tykwer (_Run Lola Run_, _Perfume_), declared in 2009 that he and the Wachowskis (The Matrix Trilogy, _Bound_) were working on a screenplay to adapt the bestselling novel _Cloud Atlas_ by British author David Mitchell. Besides winning numerous...
Dan Deacon's New Video Shows How Message Infidelity Becomes Art
"True Thrush"'s concept is easy enough to explain: "Dan Deacon":http://www.dandeacon.com/ and Wham City compatriot/filmmaker/comedian "Ben O'Brien":http://showbeast.net/ filmed a 13 second scene, featuring the two of them. They then showed that scene...
Turn it Up to Apollo 11: A Motherboard Supercut
Forty three years ago, and forty two years before the Space Shuttle landed for the last time, three men would travel to the moon, set foot there, take a few photos, and come back. To get there, they used the only vehicle that’s ever brought humans past...
Here Is Your Trippy Music Video of the Summer
Put away the bath salts and indulge in this cosmic, hypnotic, nearing-middle-age postcard from electronic duo Peaking Lights. Directed by LEGS, the video turns an ode to their young son into a trippy ‘70s fever dream, envisioning parenthood as a kind...
"Decoder" is a Forgotten Star-Studded Indie Thriller About Sonic Terrorism
You may not know _Decoder_, an oddly forgotten 1984 West German No-Wave film collectively made by four people (Trini Timpop, Muscha, and two friends). But you probably know some of its all-star cast (William Burroughs, Bill Rice, Genesis P-Orridge), or...