Posts Tagged ‘film’

things well done | the face ::

Friday, May 29th, 2009

:: an excellent animated film titled The Face (面) by Chinese multimedia designers Ray Lei (雪磊) and Chai Mi (柴觅), AKA Ray and Penny. The film was apparently awarded the Best Art Design in Animation at an International Animation Festival (still looking for details / link) and was Ray and Penny’s graduation project for the Academy of Art & Design at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2007. They both have degrees in animation from the prestigious university. The below video is also on Tudou for faster loading in China. I’ve written about Ray’s work before on 56minus1, link here for more. Bravo, well done.  // AjS

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things well done | signs ::

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

:: I recently came across this short “romantic comedy” film titled Signs by Sydney, Australia-based Patrick Hughes. It’s excellent. He produced it for the Schweppes Short Film Festival. Link here for more shorts from Hughes. This video is also on . Bravo, well done.  // AjS

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things well done | benjamin steiger levine ::

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

:: Benjamin Steiger Levine is a wickedly talented filmmaker and music video director from Montreal, Canada.

This video for Socalled’s “You Are Never Alone” is an example of his charming, quirky, wonderfully cinematic style. Given his surrealist aesthetic and love of special effects driven storytelling, it’s not surprising that Steiger Levine has been drawing Michel Gondry comparisons of late.

[The video above loads quickly in China, but for a higher quality version, click here.]

Steiger Levine joined Toronto-based Spy Films in December 2008. On the company’s blog, there’s a short Q&A with him — about a recent video for Beast’s Mr. Hurricane. See more of his reel here.

For those in Shanghai, Socalled is performing tonight (Saturday, May 2) at Yuyintang (along with ) as part of the series presented by Spli-t Works and transmitCHINA. Other visiting bands from the Great White North include (yesterday), and and Hollerado (tomorrow). Local support from and Crazy Mushroom. All the bands will also be playing in Zhenjiang this weekend for the MIDI Festival. Support those crazy Canucks, eh? Bravo, well done.  // PL

[Panthea Lee is a guest contributor on 56minus1.]

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neocha.com | let’s start bbq’ing ::

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

:: a short original stop-action film titled Let’s Start Barbecuing (开始烤肉) by Neocha.com-user Tequila – shot and produced in a single evening during / after a Korean BBQ dinner.  // AjS

[full disclosure: 56minus1 is a partner at Neocha.com]

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neocha.com | a farewell to arms ::

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

:: a short original film titled A Farewell to Arms by Neocha.com-user Monako. The film combines claymation, standard animation / video, and stop-action techniques. Monako introduces the film with “I don’t want to describe it, if you don’t understand just by watching…oh well.”  // AjS

[full disclosure: 56minus1 is a partner at Neocha.com]

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