This blog is currently listed as inactive on Google Reader so I thought it was about time I got posting again! This is the trailer for a short film called Las Palmas by filmmaker Johannes Nyholm. The film itself is 14 minutes. It’s so fantastic to see a trailer for a short getting so much viral attention. It was featured on uber-blog Boing Boing and is about to pass 1,000,000 views on YouTube.
Very cool ad directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Makes me even more excited about the World Cup. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Hat tip: Matt Dentler
This is one of the drunkest Drunk Histories I’ve seen. I love Tesla, so much so that I wrote my Masters dissertation on the guy. So it makes me very happy to see him described by a guy with his head in the the toilet: “I’m talking about Tesla in my puke. Tesla was the electric Jesus. I can’t breath.” Genius! Drunk History vol. 6 w/ John C. Reilly & Crispin Glover from John C Reilly
Love this project wherein Alex Jablonski and cinematographer Michael Totten make and exhibit one short documentary per month, every month for one year. The first episode is about John Wood who writes and records one full-length musical album per month – and he’s been doing this since November 2006! I can’t even write a blog post once a month. Sparrow Songs – Episode 1 – Learning Music from Sparrow Songs on Vimeo.
Cool video from Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues) showing how creative work builds on what came before:
Drunk History: Douglass and Lincoln won the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at Sundance this year. Here are a few others in the series for your tipsy entertainment. I’m impatiently waiting to see the Drunk History on Tesla. I wrote my Masters thesis on that crazy, brilliant guy!
I really like this short. It’s so refreshing to see a film where an abortion is only as big of a deal as it needs to be and is dealt with head on, unlike in Juno and Knocked Up (I know I’m not the first person to reference these two films but it would be remiss not to since there were both so popular and both so much about NOT getting an abortion). Obvious Child is a little (ok a…
Another trailer for Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are. Cannot. Wait.
We’re entering the fourth month of our monthly competition to celebrate the very best of the films uploaded to Shooting People by our members. I’m endlessly impressed by the talent among our ranks and Film of the Month is a really great way to showcase just how awesome Shooters are! Have a look at this beautiful finalist from March: Cinematic Orchestra: To Build a Home by Andrew Griffin. Check out the Cinematic Orchestra website here!
