FilmCamp 10

31.08.10
Date: Tuesday 28 September 2pm– 6pm | Location: Glasgow Film Theatre With a line-up of leading speakers and presentations from programme and filmmakers, game developers and web designers and people behind emerging creative digital media technologies, FilmCamp 10 explores the future of moving image, multi-platform content and the increasing convergence of technology. Aimed at freelancers in broadcast and digital industries, as well as final year students, ...
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Branchage International Film Festival 2010

27.08.10
Dates: 23-26 September | Location: Jersey If you’re a cinephile looking for a late summer holiday break then we recommend you take a look at the Branchage Festival (that’s ‘bron-carge’ by the way). For it’s third edition, alongside the launch of a swanky new logo, the team have put together a stellar line-up of live soundtracks, performances, parties, masterclasses and films in unusual locations. There are some wonderful ...
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Doing Things Differently: Cinema Regained at Oberhausen Short Film Festival by George Clark

24.08.10
She Had Her Gun All Ready, Vivienne Dick, courtesy of Oberhausen Short Film Festival “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”[1] Given its relative youth, there is a remarkable amount hidden in or obscured by the various histories of cinema. The Oberhausen Short Film Festival plays a unique role in helping to excavate and bring to light former manifestations of cinema. Taking a ...
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Dark Glass by Clio Barnard

23.08.10
Dark Glass by Clio Barnard Clio Barnard’s brilliant debut feature The Arbor – an Artangel/Jerwood commission – opens in the UK on 22 October, after Barnard won the Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best New Documentary Filmmaker earlier this year. We’ll be posting an interview with Clio nearer the release date, but in the meantime take a look at Dark Glass. Clio made Dark Glass in 2006 for ...
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Touched in the North

23.08.10
Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance 1980 – 1981 (Time Clock Piece) This year is a Liverpool Biennial year, and the International 10 show at FACT will make it well worth a visit. Presenting new commissions from artists including Yves Netzhammer and Minouk Lim, Touched will consist of new work that affects the viewer deep down: “art that moves us in mind, body and soul”. Pedantic-iti-ness aside –  (Isn’t ...
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Animatron Film Festival: Call for Entries

18.08.10
There’s only four days left to submit your film to the inaugural Animatron Festival. If your work incorporates animation techniques, such as CGI, stop-motion, claymation, paper-cut, Pixilation, RotoScope, 3D and machinima, then you are eligible to enter. There are five award categories to submit your film to: anime, fantasy, humour, minis and real life. The films will be scrutinised by a panel of judges including experimental ...
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In the Thick of It by Ajay RS Hothi

17.08.10
Craneway Event, Tacita Dean Space, concludes Frederic Raphael in his memoir of the period of time spent as scribe to Stanley Kubrick, is limited strictly by the rigid frame of the cinema screen. Writing specifically on why he felt it was that a great many filmmakers were unable to effectively replicate the true form and intangibility of dreams (and dream-space) on screen, it was, he felt, ...
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