Call for applications: The Pixel Market 2010

29.07.10
Power to the Pixel is delighted to announce its groundbreaking Pixel Market, which will take place on 13 and 14 October 2010 in London. Applications are now open to find 20 of the world’s best cross-media projects. Each project will be based on stories that can span any combination of film, TV, online, mobile, interactive, publishing, live events and gaming. On 13 October, up to 10 of the ...
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Competition: Institute Benjamenta DVDs

27.07.10
Institute Benjamenta, The Quay Brothers Institute Benjamenta: Or This Dream People Call Human Life is the striking first live-action feature from master animators, the Quay Brothers. The film stars Mark Rylance, currently performing in West End play La Bete, and Alice Krige, soon to be seen in Disney’s summer blockbuster The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Jakob (Mark Rylance) wants to be of service. Admitted to a peculiar school ...
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The Quay Brothers

27.07.10
Institute Benjamenta, The Quay Brothers The brothers talk to Gary Thomas about their work, collaboration, Europe and the Baroque. Institute Benjamenta (1995), their first feature, is available now in a Dual Format Edition package from the BFI. It includes a new documentary, with interviews with the Quays, Mark Rylance, Alice Krige and other principle cast and crew, as well as three short films and a booklet of ...
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Le Grand Content, Clemens Kogler & Karo Szmit

26.07.10
Le Grand Content, Clemens Kogler & Karo Szmit “But you have to face that teenagers like coffee and lets say the stock market are things which won’t stay hot forever.” Here’s an absurd yet rather philosophical film from Austrian filmmaker Clemens Kogler which uses PowerPoint presentation style graphics to plot a curious correlation between teenagers, taxes and the Easter bunny. Best of all the voiceover sounds a ...
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Alpha-ville 2010: call for entries
25.07.10
Alpha-ville 2010 is a two day international festival of digital arts & culture based in East London. This year’s festival theme is Visionary Cities. In partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery, Vimeo, FLAMIN and FilmDirecting4Women, Alpha-ville invites you to submit your vision of our future. Open to moving image artists working across digital animation (2D and 3D), short film, stop-frame animation, CGI and motion graphics, they are looking ...
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RSA Animate

21.07.10
RSA Animate illustrating a lecture by the authors of SuperFreakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner If you find your mind wandering during lifeless lectures, then this animated lecture series might be just the thing. The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (better known as the RSA) has been hosting lectures with key thinkers for countless years and in the last three has ...
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The Future’s Getting Old Like The Rest of Us
21.07.10
Date: 23 July, 8.30pm | Location: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London The premiere screening of The Future’s Getting Old Like The Rest of Us, a 16mm film conceived in the format of a TV Play and set in an older people’s care home. Part documentary, part fiction, the script, a collaboration with APEngine contributor George Clark, was constructed from verbatim transcripts of a discussion group held over ...
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