Help Fund Fonotune
Fonotune, a stylish indie movie I’m involved in, has hit Kickstarter! An homage to Japanese cinema, cool actors, design, and electronic music – this movie’s got it all. Or rather… it WILL have it all 🙂
It’s almost halfway funded already. Go check out the teaser! And feel free to help us finish the movie if the clip has managed to captivate you.
The project page has all you need to know. Check out the people that director Fabian Hübner has brought on board. The designer of some of the props is just wicked!
Fernseh-Tipp Erster Weltkrieg
Gestern lief auf Arte der erste Teil einer wie ich finde großartigen Reihe über den Ersten Weltkrieg: 14 – Tagebücher des Ersten Weltkriegs.
Screenshot Web-Special, arte.tv
Die mehrteilige Serie ist eine Mischung aus Doku und Fernsehfilm/-serie auf Basis von Tagebüchern, die Zeitzeugen geführt hatten. Sie funktioniert als TV-Serie mit den bekannten dramaturgischen Mitteln (mehrere Plots, Cliffhanger usw.) und toll gecastete Schauspieler/innen, die den Schwarzweißfotos der damaligen Tagebuchautoren wirklich ähnlich sehen. Das ganze funktioniert aber auch als Dokumentation: subtile Motion Graphics, bewusst eingesetzte Übersichtskarten und ein toller Schnitt, der nahtlos zwischen Realdreh und schwarz/weiß-Archivmaterial hin- und herspringt. Zudem ist die Serie mehrsprachig gedreht und teils synchronisiert/untertitelt, was den internationalen Geschehnissen zusätzliche Glaubwürdigkeit verpasst.
Bisherige Folgen können online (1 Woche lang) angeschaut werden. Ein Making-Of gibt’s ebenfalls.
Futurama on Acid
Via Film Critic Hulk I’ve stumbled upon “Rick and Morty“, a cartoon series that is like Futurama on acid. Or Futurama with swear words – depending on whether you want to describe the visuals or the dialogs.
The show – which currently has 11 episodes but a second season has been announced – revolves around the drunken mad scientist Rick, his grandson Morty and their adventures in various parallel dimensions. Of course it’s immediately obvious where Rick and Morty draws its inspiration from: Back to the Future, Futurama, Sliders, American Dad… But it manages to go beyond each of its predecessors. Every one of the first season’s 11 episodes is great, fast-paced and has a dark undertone.
You can watch Rick and Morty bootlegged on Youtube if you don’t have access to Cartoon Network.
Awful Movie Reviews
It’s one of those low hanging fruits that I’m surprised it hasn’t been done before: movie posters featuring one-star Amazon reviews 🙂
Monster of Nix
I had heard about the short film “Monster of Nix” by Dutch film-maker Rosto before but I haven’t seen it yet. Now I’ve stumbled upon some breakdowns of the VFX by Daan Spruit. It’s a really great demonstration of the kind of thoughts that already went into shooting the live action elements.
The other 5 clips (overview on vimeo) are great as well. They demonstrate the use of Fusion’s shaders and 3D system to – I’m assuming – cut down on render time for reflections and backgrounds.
Gravity
If (and only if) you have seen the movie “Gravity”, the following short film is a nice addition:
(via HollywoodReporter. In case this embed no longer works, here’s a lower quality version on Youtube)
