Firekites – AUTUMN STORY by Lucinda Schreiber & Yanni Kronenberg

Firekites – AUTUMN STORY – Chalk animated music video directed by Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg.

Destino by Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney

In 1946 legendary surrealist Salvador Dali formed an unlikely friendship with Walt Disney, and they spent some time collaborating on a short film called Destino. Dali and Disney artist John Hench worked on a lot of storyboards, but only 18 seconds of test footage were shot before the project was abandoned.

In 1999, Disney’s nephew Roy Edward Disney was working on Fantasia 2000 and he decided to complete the Destino project, over 50 years after production began. 25 Disney artists worked from the original storyboards (with some input from Hench himself, and notes from the journals of Dali’s widow) and finally completed Destino using a mix of hand-drawn and computer animation.

Director: Dominique Monfrey

Producer: Walt Disney

Writers: Salvador Dalí, John Hench

Music: Armando Domínguez

Happy Birthday ‘Ágætis byrjun’

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Icelandic release of their breakthrough album ‘Agaetis Byrjun’, Sigur Rós have made available two exclusive live performances from the original launch party concert at the Icelandic Opera House on the night of June 10, 1999 – back when few people outside Reykjavik hadn’t the foggiest clue who they were.

‘Nyja Lagid’ video – filmed originally for Icelandic TV and unseen for years, shows the boys when they really were still boys, performing a song that never made it onto Agaetis Byrjun (or any subsequent album) and disappeared from their set-list shortly after this date.

Machu Picchu Post

Machu Picchu Post is a short 3D film made at Supinfocom Arles in 2008 by Clement Crocq, Margaux Durand-Rival and Nicolas Novali.

This is the story of the unexpected meeting between a young peruvian boy living with his lama and a pilot from the airmail flying above the boy’s house.

You can find more information on the website :
machupicchupost.free.fr
or a making of made for CG SOCIETY :
features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=5013

New interview for Max underground by Pablo Hadis here : maxunderground.com/articles/2009/mppost_interview.html

Credits :

Clement Crocq : Design, Animation (boy and lama), texturing, matte painting
–> pagesperso-orange.fr/crocq.clem/
Margaux Durand-Rival : Modeling, Animation (pilot / plane / titan), compositing
–> sodeft.free.fr
Nicolas Novali : Modeling, Rigging, Lighting, FX, compositing
–> nicolas.novali.free.fr

Sound by Thomas Vaquié from Chocolat Noisette
–> chocolat-noisette.com

SURFACE: A film from underneath

Directed by: TU+// Varathit Uthaisri
Sound: Plum// Napat Snidvongs
DP: Jun Oshima
Production: Tong// Thitawan Chaiwong

Original Set design idea : Richi Owaki
(newclear.jp/?p=74)

SURFACE is an experimental film, exploring the emotional journey from an underground urban perspective. This ‘urban symphony’ transforms human actions and street objects into beats that harmoniously compose a grand audio and visual composition. The film emphasizes the ideas of ‘point of contact’, ‘human identity’ and notion of ‘live footprints’.

More info. + behind the scene : surfacefilm.com

What’s going on in Iran? (Elections 2009)

HOME by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being. For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film. HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity University

Paris Short Cuts by Mathieu Gérard

Portrait of a Memory in VHS by José Olivares and Eduardo Lytton

This interactive video sculpture was made by my friend José Olivares in collaboration with Eduardo Lytton for the ITP Spring Show 2008. Here’s a short description:

Portrait of a Memory in VHS is an interactive video sculpture that shows the image of a 12 year old girl projected through and reflected off of several different layers of surfaces. This girl is presented in the realm of abstraction: her image represents a memory, or may be an extension of the past as an idea. This “ideal” state and her pure nature is also reflected in sound: three simple musical bell tones repeat, gentle suggestions of memory.