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!
This trailer feels a bit like an Arcade Fire video but it’s beautiful and I am giddily excited about seeing the film when it is released in October. I stopped breathing a little bit while watching the trailer. Always a good sign I feel! You can watch a prettier HD version on the Apple website.
This week we were thrilled to announce the launch of Film of the Month on Shooting People, which recognizes the best films made and uploaded to Shooting People by our members on both sides of the Atlantic.
Shooting People Patron director Mike Figgis selected the animated short Zoo by 24 year old Robin Bushell as January’s Film of the Month. The other shortlisted films for January were the documentary Hanging With Frank by David Graham Scott, and the performance piece Jump by Lab Ky Mo. Upload your films now to be considered for the February competition – which will be judged by the most excellent Morgan Spurlock, another of our lovely patrons.
Here’s Zoo for your viewing pleasure.
The Court 13 collective who made Glory at Sea say they “strive to bring down the hegemony of that hollow feeling” and they certainly do just that with this gorgeous film. Watch it online now. It will make your heart thump with love and hope and humanity.
Glory at Sea is on the latest issue of Wholphin. If you don’t already subscribe to Wholphin then sign up now. F*ck the recession. It’s films like these that get you through.
I just saw this on Matt Dentler’s blog and I feel compelled to post it here too because Charles is so wonderful and his words are so stirring.
You’re supposed to send this video to 5 friends so I’ll put it here for the 5 people who read my blog! It’s an odd mix of earnest and somewhat funny but hey, it’s all for a good cause: VOTE!
Remember those Budweiser ads that were funny and then kinda annoying? Well director Charles Stone is back with the original cast to make a political point about the last 8 years and the change we need. True.
I can’t believe I’ve only just discovered Sarah Haskin’s Target: Women videos. If you ever watch ads marketed to women and you think “huh?” or “WTF?” or even “Please keep your cheesy marketing campaigns out of my living room you patronizing turds” then you will enjoy Haskin’s take on birth control, botox, chick flicks and yogurt!
P.S. Beware of gray hoodies: It’s that “I have a Masters but then I got married” look.
The End of America, based on Naomi Wolf’s book
Update: Karina Longworth has just posted a very astute review of The End of America on Spout: “The MILF + listicle equation never fails. The End of America is political propaganda programmed for the Digg generation.”
Thanks to Agnes Varnum at Doc It Out for the heads up about this. Frontline’s The Choice 2008 is available to watch free online in its entirety. I’ve only watched part of it so far but it’s definitely vital viewing on the political and personal histories of Obama and McCain and I’m looking forward to watching the rest when I can give it my full attention (although giving ANYTHING my full attention at the moment is proving tricky).
Also, women of the world I do salute you but make sure you vote. Emily Wilding Davison threw herself in front of the King’s horse in the UK for the right to vote. All we have to do is go to the polling station.
