It has been a little quite at FOLGE, the beautiful and intelligent video interview magazine, in the last month. This december FOLGE returns with a massive update of 4 interviews.
The new Interview partners come from such different backgrounds as writing, architecture, chocolate manifacturing and vegetable dealing. This diversity is one of the attributes which make FOLGE so special.
by Lernert Engelberts & Sander Plug
9 episode documentary series in which artists of abstract work explain to their parents
where its all about.
episode 1:
Fantastic artist Arno Coenen talks to his father about the Eurotrash beer he developed for an art museum.
www.eternalmoonwalk.com was conceived, designed and built in less than 2 weeks by group 94’s Studio Brussel.
The site received a couple of kilometres of user (fan)-contributed content in a really short time.
Germany’s cultural tv program dctp of Alexander Kluge is online!
Die Seite ist zwar technologisch ziemlich rückständig (keine deep-links, kein embedding, uuah!) , aber ich bin trotzdem unendlich dankbar, dass man viele Perlen der deutschen TV-Kultur jetzt online sehen kann. Gelungen finde ich den Ansatz, die Beiträge zu Themen wie Krieg oder Finanzkrise in Sammlungen zusammen zu stellen.
Mein Tipp für den Einstieg: ‘Das Weichziel ist der Mensch’ in der Sammlung ‘Krieg ist das Ende aller Pläne’.
“Oberstleutnant Sanftleben über Grundsatzfragen und Erfahrungswerte im Umgang zwischen Truppe und Öffentlichkeit.”
Good editorial web video often works with a simple and authentic idea - 50 People, One Question by Benjamn Reece most definately falls into this category. Moreover it comes with beautiful cinematography.
See the NY, Brooklyn and London edition in the Vimeo channel. If you’d like to know more about the cinematography of the videos check this Blog entry.
The brand new book of my favourite digital culture theorist Lev Manovich entitled Software takes command was released today online under a creative commands licence.
The book is the second release of the Software Studies Initiative which was established by Manovich at the USCD as a new field of study to analyse the effects of software on contemporary culture.
I don’t know if we can but at least now there’s hope.
Listen to the clip without the picture, thereby it even get’s more scary.
Via Blowup.
If any filmmaker needs encouragement to really follow his passion he should watch Werner Herzog eating his shoes, literally! Once Herzog proposed to his good friend Erol Morris, that if Morris would ever finish a film, he would eat his shoes. So when Morris released ‘Gates of Heaven’, Herzog ate his shoes in front of a student audience, to proove that filmmaking is an act of commitment. Moreover he had some good advice for the students: “If you want to do a camera, steal a camera.”
See the short film about the incident at NY Entertainment.
This is already a couple of months old but well worth a look: An 8 minute Short Movie by Johannes Brueckner about the progress and problems of globalisation. Bar & line graphs on world maps, formed by real people become realtime-animated ‘living’ infographics.
English version and german version available on youTube
“Moodstream is a concepting tool. The modern version of the fireplace. An interactive art piece. TV for the future. It’s a website we created for and with Getty Images to showcase all of their offerings – still, video and sound – and inspire interactive creatives. And it’s really, really fun to use.”
via Iconic Turn.