Chanel – The Tale Of A Fairy
Posted by Fabio 9 May 2011
To celebrate the launch of its 2011 Cruise collection, Chanel and creative director Karl Lagerfeld will screen tomorrow their latest fashion film, a 30-minute-long piece entitled “The Tale of a Fairy”, set to be screened at the Chanel Cruise collection show next week. Written and directed by Karl Lagerfeld.
‘The Tale of a Fairy’ will be available on chanel.com on May 10th 2011
Somewhere To Disappear
Posted by Fabio 9 May 2011
Somewhere To Disappear is a film about the desire to run away. Photographer Alex Soth traveled across America looking for people who’ve retreated from society. Some live in mountain cabins, some in caves, others in the desert. This film is about men, America, Alex Soth and the dream to disappear. Directed by Laure Flammarion & Arnaud Uyttenhove.
www.somewheretodisappearthefilm.com
She Went Along With Him
Posted by Fabio 7 May 2011
She Went Along With Him is directed by LA based provocative filmmaker Douglas Burgdorff. The track, Sabali is by Amadou & Mariam.
NOT SAFE FOR WORK!
Press Pause Play – documentary
Posted by Fabio 6 May 2011
PressPausePlay “A film about hope, fear and digital culture”. Stuart Langfield created the animated content for the PressPausePlay documentary. The animations help to break up the interviews and illustrate key scenes discussed throughout the film. Above is the Seth Godin excerpt.
www.presspauseplay.com
www.stuartlangfield.com
People Like Us and Vicki Bennett
Posted by Fabio 5 May 2011
Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) has been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. read more
Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt
Posted by Fabio 4 May 2011
Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt is about an America that has all but disappeared, when lucrative business deals were cemented by a handshake and state of the art automobiles were designed on the backs of envelopes. It tells the story of an unsung hero and self-made man, David Abbott Jenkins, who, with almost superhuman stamina and boyish charm, set out to single-handedly break every existing land speed record on his beloved Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah. read more
Sweetgrass
Posted by Fabio 3 May 2011
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. read more
Stray Dawg by Sean Dunne
Posted by Fabio 28 April 2011
Another brilliant short film by director Sean Dunne (previously featured in FILE issue #4). Stray Dawg is a film about Jonny Corndawg, the underground country-music legend. A born-and-bred Virginian, Jonny has played on five continents in as many years, and every state in the lower 48. Some places he’s played so many times, he’s worn holes in them. read more
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