Films Worth A Watch

Here’s a little list of my fav movies of the last year or so. 

Seven Psychopaths
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Amour
On The Road
Holy Motors
Searching for Sugar Man
In Darkness
A Royal Affair
My Week With Marilyn
Little White Lies
The Descendants
Moneyball
Shame
Warrior
The Help
Tangled
Tyrannosaur
Cloud Atlas
Rust and Bone
End of Watch
Looper
The Avengers
Hunger Games
Marley
Django Unchained

Visual joy, skill set distress

I don’t know how to swim I do confess.

So I’m a big fan of Young Wonder and well… this video as well!

Some mesmerising use of colours and layering. Give it a watch!

#supereverything #silhouette

Another Fav from Gustav Johansson! Beautifully simple (which is not to be mistaking with simplistic).

Is the end tagline poking a little fun at maybelline?

for those that like film and symmetry.

Wouldn’t wanna mysteriously wake up on those balconies.

My future dream-mobile 

Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola made this for Prada. Although it’s a bit confusing (Oops I mean… quirky! it’s called quirky right? you know like Zooey Deschanel?) you can’t deny loving how Wes directs you through the scenes, especially with some of his famous tracking shots in there.

I think when it comes to Prada vs Chanel in recent fashion videos (
https://vimeo.com/57847990), Chanel wins. But you always have some interesting characters anytime you watch a Wes film!

One of my favourite director at the moment is Niklas Johnasson. The video above is one of about 6 different videos in cities around the world. If learning a language was this visually stimulating I would definitely be multilingual by now.

the shots and composition are excellent but the thing I love most is the graphics. They are fantastic. The way the move around on screen ever so subtly makes it even better. Those two little lines that pop in every now and then and the sudden light change to give it that ‘filmic’ quality… yep! it’s pretty nifty.

All in all, his videos make me want to go away and learn another language. And hey! with massive graphic blocks popping round every corner or friendly strangers/love interests helping you, it couldn’t be easier!

I’ve been working on this in my spare time over the last few weeks. Although I wish it had a bit more of a narrative, I think it’s pretty cool. Most of the process was quite easy but I was stuck on the intro for quite a long time until I saw this video… https://vimeo.com/61765258

I really liked the style of replicating old film with simple graphic shapes (squares, lines and circles) and wanted to build on that by adding Buddhist and Cambodian symbols which surrounded us during the trip.

This is also the first project I used DaVinci Resolve to grade. Amazingly powerful tool and will probably be my number 1 choice for grading from now on. The back and forth from premiere is still a bit glichy it seems though :(

Enjoy!

On the subject of survival of democracy, here is what Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, in 1887 had to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html

sometimes the comments page is just as interesting as the talk.

vimeo:

Choros by Michael Langan

wow. This is a cool effect.

vimeo:

Choros by Michael Langan

wow. This is a cool effect.

(Reblogged from vimeo)