FILE Screening Curated by Matthias Hoegg

Posted by Fabio 16 April 2012

London based animator and director Matthias Hoegg has curated our screening for April with a great selection of short films, music videos and a bit of science as well. Matthias Hoegg was born in Munich in 1983 and moved to England in 2003 to study Illustration and Animation at Kingston University. read more

Cronenberg – Cosmopolis

Posted by Fabio 30 March 2012

David Cronenberg’s adaption of a seminal Don DeLillo novel, starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton and Mathieu Amalric. Cosmopolis is one of the most anticipated films of the year and It also marks the return of classic Cronenberg!

www.cosmopolisthefilm.com

Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase Call for Entries 2012

Posted by Fabio 27 March 2012

Saatchi & Saatchi London have released the call for entries film for the annual Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase 2012. The viral film, titled Naked Ambition, is directed by renowned director Chris Palmer, and stars an adult movie director whose ambition is to make commercials.
www.saatchi.com/new_directors_showcase

The brothers John & James Whitney

Posted by Fabio 26 March 2012

The brothers John & James Whitney created their remarkable series of Film Exercises between 1943 and 1944. These films are visually based on modernist composition theory, the carefully varied permutations of form are manipulated with cut-out masks so that the image photographed is pure direct light shaped, rather than the light reflected from drawings as in traditional animation. read more

Full Circle

Posted by Fabio 20 March 2012

Full Circle is the first fashion film for new London / Melbourne label Klezinski. This film is a creative collaboration between film-maker Callum Cooper, sound artist John Kassab and Klezinski. Influenced by Tony Hill’s Down Side Up, but still Beautifully executed!!

Tony Hill – Down Side Up

Posted by Fabio 20 March 2012

By the use of a simple camera movement, Tony Hill‘s film Down Side Up explores and reviews some relationships to the ground. The viewpoint continuously orbits places, objects, people and events. The observations gradually speed up to reveal a double sided ground flipping like a tossed coin, then slow again to oscillate about the earths edge.

As It Lays

Posted by Fabio 19 March 2012

As It Lays is a series of video portraits of Los Angeles’ celebrated icons, by artist Alex Israel. read more

Solipsist

Posted by Fabio 13 March 2012

Solipsist is a short film directed by Andrew Huang who is a commercial and music video director living in Los Angeles. Solipsist has recently won the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short at the Slamdance Film Festival 2012. read more