Archive for June, 2008

Two Kites Don’t Make a Right

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Starring Melissa Alfonso & Jeremy Westphal

Brennan Hill: notbrendon

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

In jr. high, Brennan Hill was voted most likely to become an artist and a photo of him was printed in the back of the yearbook; we’ve been jealous of him ever since.
Brennan now lives and works as an artist in Los Angeles. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts and graduated [...]

The Pleasure of Being Robbed

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

So our friends at Red Bucket Films made a movie called ‘The Pleasure of Being Robbed.’ It premiered at SXSW earlier this year and then closed the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. It’s playing at the Los Angeles Film Festival this week. Actually, it already played yesterday but it’s showing again on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday [...]

Hero/Psycho

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Voices by Ashley Fenton, Brennan Hill, Miles Stenjem
Written by Brennan Hill, Miles Stenjem

Carson Mell

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Carson Mell is a writer and filmmaker living in happening Hollywood, California. He comes from Arizona and made ‘Cold Operator’ as a music video for his friend Miles Jopling’s song.
I was first introduced to Carson’s work through an animated short he made called ‘The Writer.’ I watched it on the first issue of Wholphin [...]

Educational Videos

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo
This video is great. Basically some scientists nerds made a video documenting how magnetic fields act. They have created visual representations of fields you cant actually see. What resulted is a technicolor masterpiece.
enjoy

Luke Shapiro’s Dope Show

Monday, June 16th, 2008

So my friend Jonathan Levine made a movie called ‘The Wackness.’ It’s a big deal.
It’s coming out July 3 and there are already a bunch trailers for it running everywhere. Jon thought trailers were boring though so he dug up his VHS camcorder and made this ↓

We screened that first installment at our New [...]

Dick el Demasiado

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I am in the middle of making a documentary on this experimental cumbia singer/dj in Buenos Aires named Dick el Demasiado. He and his band just finished recording some new songs in the arctic circle of Russia in an old industrial port city. His live shows look something like this:

The other day we [...]

Cold Operator

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Music by Miles Jopling

Starring
Miles Jopling as Billy
Angela Rue as Girl
Morgan Thomas Jones III as Sheriff

Waverly Films

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

We’re wrapping up our first week getting ready to put Carson Mell’s new video for ‘Cold Operator’ up tomorrow, but first we’d like to take a moment to spotlight our first featured contributor, Waverly Films.
Waverly Films is a Brooklyn-based group of filmmakers who met at NYU. Over the last few years, in addition to creating [...]