Category Archives: Art/Experimental

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City in the World

We like New York in HDR — how about you? Filmmaker Colby Moore shot these NYC scenes raw (not HDRx) with the Red Epic-X, processing the images in Red Cine X and HDRsoft Photomatix before editing ProRes files in Final … more »

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Filmography 2012

Did you miss any 2012 releases that you wanted to see? Odds are you'll find them excerpted, ever-so-briefly, somewhere in this video montage. Exhaustively compiled and edited by Gen Ip, who has now done this for three years running. The … more »

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The Best Films of 2012: A Video Countdown

Grad student, Movies.com contributor and Criterion Corner blogger David Ehrlich cut this selection of imagery from his favorite films of 2012, all of it set to music used in movies released this year. Bookended by the accordion-driven entr'acte from Holy Motors, … more »

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Amazing Anamorphic Illusions!

Anyone who's spent time manipulating perspectives or cheating scale for a movie camera will appreciate the effect achieved here with nothing more than a sheet of paper printed with a cleverly manipulated image. (Click through to the YouTube page to … more »

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Unnamed Soundsculpture

Creators Daniel Franke and Cedric Kiefer experiment with motion-capture in this short dance film that repurposes data originally captured by three Microsoft Xbox Kinect sensors. Three different angles on a dancer were converted into a point cloud in three dimensions … more »

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Sigur Rós: “Fjögur píanó”

Is it a brilliant modern dance work, a slo-mo piece of performance art or just another inscrutable music video? The "mystery film experiment" certainly takes the meditative music of Sigur Rós to a new level of complexity. It's also NSFW, … more »

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iPhone Diorama

Otis College of Art and Design senior Mike Ko shot this final project with a Canon EOS Rebel T2i, animated it with Maya, After Effects and Pftrack and rendered it all in V-Ray.

Count on Me

Gentleman Scholar, a collective of filmmakers, designers and animators based in Santa Monica, set this enumerative animation to narration by Sesame Street's The Count.

“Dear New York”

Spanish filmmaker Luis Urculo created this film to celebrate the recent opening of fashion label Zara's flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York City.

Hillman Curtis: Blow Up

An excerpt from one of the first short films from legendary designer and filmmaker Hillman Curtis, who died at the age of 51 on Wednesday.