Time Lapses, Hyper Lapses and Tilt Shifts are three of the most popular filmmaking technics at the moment. Time Lapses, by far a photographers/filmmakers' favorite, can now be seen in reality TV, documentaries and movies to evoke time passing and transition from one sequence to another. Just ...
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Steven Soderbergh CREDIT: Joe Corrigan - Getty Images "Retired" filmmaker Steven Soderbergh was the keynote speaker for the San Francisco International Film Festival's State of Cinema Address that took place this Saturday night. One of the particularity of this Address was that Sode ...
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Bill Viola is an american contemporary video artist that has been creating for four decades now and exposing his work all around the world. If you've never seen one of Viola's installation, they are often disturbing, but not in the way you would expect. Viola uses images and what goes with them ...
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From Gangs of New York, Directed by Martin Scorsese - Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus - moviesincolor.com Movies in Color is the latest awesome tumblr filmmaking related that will feed your need to learn more and understand better how movies are made. (sounds sweet, right?) Created at ...
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12 Monkeys is one of my favorite sci-fi movie and yet, it took me a long time to watch The Hamster Factor after @LaFamiliaFilm pointed out its existence. The Hamster Factor is both a full-length documentary and 12 Monkeys' official behind-the-scene, ordered by Terry Gilliam himself to protect ...
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Like many, I find Terrence Malick's universe fascinating and enchanting. The filmmaker with 6 movies over 35 years has such a strong vision of the stories he wants to tell that there is a visual consistency that carries throughout his work, story after story, no matter the subject, the setting ...
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Take a seat, have a beer and listen to indie pioneers filmmaker Ed Burns and producer Ted Hope talking about their career and how failure played its unavoidable part in shaping who they are and how they arrived where they are today. Burns and Hope met almost twenty years ago, after Burns' fi ...
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Back shot from Another Earth Take a look at "The View: a 'Back-to-the-Camera' Supershot", a video edited by Zach Prewitt that compiles back shots from 90 different sources (films and TV-Shows) and organically mixes film genres and decades. Back shots are often used to reveal either an imp ...
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20 years ago, Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere and surprised everybody with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, gaining worldwide attention and becoming the symbol of an "alternative" filmmaking movement. 20 years ago it was hard to know if Tarantino was more than a one trick pony director. ...
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Prepare to have your mind blown away Labs, a small independent unit from Teehan+Lax, just released a code -available for free- that lets you create your own hyper-lapse based on Google Street Views. Yep, you've read that well. You don't need a camera anymore to create a hyper-lapse. You ac ...
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