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Mona — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:00:53 +0000

Student filmmakers Trent Hilborn and Mark Mazur�s twisty short film is anything but usual.

With a runtime of around 25 minutes, Clever is an intense psychological film with an outstanding directorial effort. It was premiered at the Reeve Union Theatre at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

The short tells the story of a scientist trapped in the sub-level of a science facility. Suffering from perpetual grief, he is forced to the edge and becomes the first person to breath a new life, not through�reproduction, but multiplication.

Formed through serious brainstormings between the directors, the narrative offers an intriguing plot that is never what it seems. One thing that�s present to the film is its concious effort to solidify the main character. I love how the scientist background was inserted to the film without even changing location. Through this, the audience gets a clearer picture of the character�s mental and emotional stability.

The lighting was also spot on. The gloominess and darkness of each scene add a mysterious atmosphere to the story.

Stylishly made and narratively rich, Clever is that kind of film that stands out and invites multiple viewings. It�s an intricate feat of mindplay that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Barackula

Mona — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:00:33 +0000

Blow your minds with Barackula directed by Mike Lawson and written by Justin Sherman.

As said on its website, this short political horror rock musical is about a young Barack Obama who has to stave off a secret society of vampires at Harvard when he was inducted into presidency at the Harvard Law Review in 1990. Obama finds that he must convince the vampire society that opposing political philosophies can coexist or else the society may transform Obama to the dark side.

Creating and appreciating a musical takes a lot of effort, even more if its a comical allegory to politics and the vampire fan-fiction culture. In Barackula, the music and chereography gives weight to the story as it showcase a string of hummable songs which gives momentum, and holds together a clear narrative for the film.

Justin Sherman gave justice to the character of Barack Obama as he played the part flawlessly and sang well throughout. The concepts of politics, presidency, and vampires illustrated complex political ideas into a digestible, concrete way.

All in all, Barackula offers a heavy slice of politics smothered with sweet musical melodies you’ll truly enjoy.

Pizza Verdi

Mona — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:00:49 +0000

Experience a tense game of cat and mouse in Pizza Verdi, a 7-minuter film written and directed by Gary Nadeau. The film had already received much much attention and award from festival circuits including the Salento Fibus Terrae International Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, and BiosAgenda Online Film Competition.

It opens to a seemingly normal pizza delivery when the main character hears an angelic voice coming from the posh apartment. Upon discovering where the moving voice is coming from, a twist of power play opens up where the audience’s first speculation about the characters’ are dramtically changed.

Cast in black and white, the film makes full use oof its skilfull experimentation as each sequence is framed perfectly in artistic brilliance. The filmmakers builds the tension in between the dominating silence which is effective in giving mystery and power to the short.

Starring Maria Zamora and Norm Lewis (2012 Tony Nominee for Outstanding Actor in a Musical), you can never go wrong with the performances. The clash in each personality was clearly executed, from the status, the personality, and the music each one takes.

But even through the differences, what makes this short remarkable is how the two characters united through the power of music.

Cinematography or content wise, Pizza Verdi is a visual gem. It encapsulates a normal moment and casts layers over layers of suggestive symbolism and narrative from the characters.

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Mona — Sun, 27 May 2012 13:00:57 +0000

It’s adorable. It’s safe. And it just wants to be your friend. Blinky™ will definitely paint your dreams in bloody red.

Written, directed, and edited by Ruairi Robinson and funded by the Irish Film Board, this 12-minuter suspense film tells the story of a young boy who purchases a robot helper to be his playmate. But just like any child, the boy gets bored with Blinky and puts all of his frustrations and childhood pangs on the poor robot. As Blinky’s system reboots, things turn out viciously bad.

The CGI effects and cinematography of the film was surgically precise and artfully done. With a budget of 45k euro for the shoot and a visual budget of zero, the creators have transformed this film into a mini-masterpiece of great twists and imagination.

The visual effects were only done in nine months. Some of the standout scenes are those where Blinky stays out in the rain. It is really hard to make CG characters wet in the rain, but the creators have really juiced out their creative mojos to make it look realistic. The gore factor is flawlessly done that it will not leave you sick in your stomach.

The boy, Max Records (from “Where The Wild Things Are”) is a bombshell of a talent. The emotion he contributes to the scenes make a solid foundation throughout the film. His role was very important to trigger a lifeless being like Blinky, and he did it with such intensity and potential.

The film’s cinematography is by Macgregor while the nicely done music is by Olafur Arnalds courtesy of Erased Tapes.

Overall, Blinky™ is an extremely satisfying short that alternates sweetness and drama with enough suspense to give you a chilling experience. It’s that kind of film that will bring back your love and fear of robots.

Die Beauty

Mona — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:00:57 +0000

After four years in the making, Stina Bergman‘s Die Beauty is ready to face the world.

This full-feature film written by Åsa Björklund was premiered on September 17, 2010 at the Rio Cinema, SWE Museum and at The Pirate Bay on the web. Since its release, Die Beauty had appeared on international film festivals such as the Camerimage Festival in Poland and the Barcelona Creative Commons Film Festival.

As described by its makers, the film is a surreal thriller in a feverish fairytale world. A story about friendship, alienation, family ties and kindred blood. It revolves around five redhead girls living in a small village by the river looking for something to happen. They figured a dead body would be exciting and just like in fairytales, wishes do come true.

Bergman’s approach was seamless and subtle. She sews a complete montage of the family’s lives without resorting to sappy melodramatic scenes.

What makes this film strong is its brilliant touch on gender roles and adulthood. The women here are empowered. They learn to fight and maneuver their own lives without depending on a husband, or a man. This switching of power roles adds depth to the simple village life.

I am at awe how each scene earns its sentiments without getting over manipulative and preachy. The film manages to show the absurdity of the dysfunctional adult world and how children view it.

Overall, Die Beauty is a remarkable and ground-breaking film for the Swedish and Indie movie industry. It proved that there’s also good in not conforming to Hollywood traditions. By releasing it on the world wide web, the potential audience is limitless. The piece of art will travel to different parts of the world instead of confining it within a big screen.

The film with non-Swedes subtitles is available at The Pirate Bay. The beautiful artwork is done by the amazing Karin Broos, check out more of her Die Beauty paintings in the film’s Facebook page.

The Killing Joke

Mona — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Blow your socks off with the suspense fiction The Killing Joke. Directed by Sebastian Lopez, this 15-minute film centers around a mysterious woman who discovers a red balloon in an almost-deserted street, and by a twist of fate finds herself facing her biggest fear. It stars Gustavo Marzo and Clarissa Staracci.

The movie pays homage to the seventies horror era by using classic elements of suspense. I liked how the transitions of sequences are flawless; you could really see that the team behind this worked extra hard. Every detail was not missed, from the empty bullets, the pulling trigger to the grand ending.

One standout feature of this short is its Hollywood quality despite of the micro budget production and the use of only two cameras. The color grading and cinematography is really well-done; most of the scenes would qualify for a mainstream movie.

The Killing Joke delves on the subject of fear and how it’s surrounding us. It tells us that fear is what we imagine and it’s up to us how to cope up with it.

Along with Lopez, this superb film was made possible by Sabrina Mottino (editor) and Colin Devlin (original soundtrack) under Little People Productions.

Turn the lights off, press play and get ready for a heart-pumping ride.

A Lonely Place For Dying

Kademlia — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 23:08:54 +0000

KGB defector Nikolai Dzerzhinsky (Ross Marquand) convinces Washington Post Editor-In-Chief Howard Simons (James Cromwell) to send a reporter for a rendevous in an abandoned Mexican prison near the Juarez/El Paso border.

CIA project manager Anthony Greenglass (Michael Wincott) sends special agent Robert Harper (Michael Scovotti) to intercept Nikolai…and kill him. (27 minutes)

Another great VODO release not to be missed. The end of Part I will leave you wanting for more!

ABOUT THIS MOTION PICTURE
A Lonely Place for Dying has been honored at festivals across the globe and praised by both critics and audiences alike. An official selection of 38 film festivals with 45 award nominations and winner of 19 awards including 14 for best motion picture, VODO is proud to present this cold-war spy thriller co-starring Academy Award nominee James Cromwell (LA Confidential, The Green Mile, Secretariat) and indie-favorite Michael Wincott (Talk Radio, The Crow, The Assassination of Richard Nixon).

A Lonely Place for Dying has been featured in Variety, MovieMaker Magazine and on IFC. PBS-affiliate WPT’s “Director’s Cut” will air an episode dedicated to this film on July 8th, 2011. This interview will be available for instant download here after it airs on WPT.

A Lonely Place For Dying – Theatrical Trailer from Justin Evans on Vimeo.

RELEASE SCHEDULE
A Lonely Place for Dying is being released as a five-part series through VODO. The first four episodes will be released monthly. The fifth episode will be released in early February after the film has begun it’s US Theatrical release. In addition, the project will include two music releases highlighting the work of composer Brent Daniels.

DONATE TODAY AND MAKE HISTORY
The Lonely Place team will be releasing A Lonely Place for Dying theatrically in January, 2012. Your donation helps us buy traditional cable, network, magazine & newspaper ads, complete a theatrical mix of the motion picture, create a DCP (digital cinema package) of the motion picture and distribute the film to independent theaters in North America via blu-ray and DCP. We’ll be chronicling our journey and bundling a documentary about the theatrical release with the film’s fifth and final installment so that everyone can learn from our experience.

The theatrical release of A Lonely Place for Dying will be a milestone for VODO and for original content distributed through BitTorrent. We hope you’ll help us. There are some great rewards, including credits in upcoming episodes.

VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME & SKILLS
Are you an illustrator, graphic designer, translator/subtitler, graffiti artist, sculptor, comic illustrator or grass roots marketing guru? Whatever your skills may include, from furniture making to sculpture, you can help. If you enjoyed watching A Lonely Place for Dying and are interested in contributing to the film’s success, please contact us immediately. We need your help!

And, we’re willing to be as wildly creative as you are! Are you a ponoko artist? Do you have woodworking skills? Are you a DJ? Would you be interested in catering one of our theatrical openings? Would you enjoy helping us author an iOS App for Apple’s App Store? Can you print on wood or sheet metal? Can you help create a Graffiti Research Lab style laser logo? There are so many ways you can help us promote this film around the globe!

THE TEAM
Justin Eugene Evans
Director | Writer | Cinematographer | Graphic Designer | Producer

Justin Eugene Evans began his first theatre company at 14 and began making films at 15. He is the only undergraduate in NYU’s history to complete a feature film while in school. Justin is the founder, former CEO & Creative Director of Mystic Arts in Beijing as well as the owner and producer of Humble Magi, LLC. He has been a film professor and art director in the video game industry. Justin is a skilled graphic designer, photographer, production designer, screenwriter, cinematographer, director & producer.

Brent Daniels
Composer | Sound Designer | Re-recording Mixer | Website Designer | Producer
As a music producer, Brent Daniels (also professionally known as “Free”) is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer, sound designer and singer. He began classical piano studies at age 10. A love affair with electronic music production and the recording arts soon blossomed and led to his first professional performances of his own work at age 14. As the the last signing to the venerable Chicago-based Wax Trax!, Brent recorded and released the self-produced and critically-acclaimed electronic LP Searching For The End under the name Hednoize with co-founder and fellow producer Daniel Lenz. Aside from Hednoize’s focus on innovative sound design and solid song craftsmanship, the cinematic sonic undertones of the release foreshadowed Brent’s eventual, parallel role as a film composer and post production sound designer.

As a remixer and programmer, Brent has worked with Marcella Levy (Marcella Detroit, Shakespeare’s Sister, Eric Clapton), Rick Knowles and Billy Steinberg (Madonna, Stevie Nicks), and Thomas Dolby (Headspace/Beatnik). As a recording artist, Brent’s music has been used in film (Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Charlie’s Angels, Scary Movie 2, Homegrown, Gossip, The Skulls, Behind Enemy Lines, The Lake House, The Love Guru), television (“Le Femme Nikita,” “Mad Men,” “Burn Notice,” “The Real World,” and trailers (“Blade Runner [re-release]),” Terminator: Salvation,” “Flight Of The Phoenix”) .

A passionate advocate for general education, liberal arts and technology studies, since 1993 Brent has concurrently performed in over 1000 primary/secondary schools and universities across the continental United States, entertaining and teaching well over 750,000 students and faculty about electronic music production and the importance of education.

Zenith Part 2

Kademlia — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:37:06 +0000

ZENITH is a retro-futuristic steam-punk thriller, about two men in two time periods, whose search for the same grand conspiracy leads them to question their own humanity.

Starting from a fictional recreation of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority experiment (see more on the experiment in Background and Influences), Zenith plunges into following two parallel stories – of father and son – now, and 40 years into the future. Part 1 of Zenith was released little over a month ago and can be found here.

Searching for the same elusive conspiracy, both father and son find no answers; instead, their journeys unravel their lives and force them to look deep and hard at themselves and their surroundings. In the end, they are both confronted with the same Faustian bargain – but each one chooses a very different path.

ZENITH 2011 TRAILER from Surla Films on Vimeo.

“A visually stunning art-house Blade Runner for a generation in thrall to sex, violence, conspiracy, and urban tribalism…”
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill Pick of the Week

“Smoothly incorporating influences as diverse as Philip K. Dick and Terry Gilliam, Zenith commands attention and builds suspense by taking inventive detours through familiar territory…”
- Joe Leydon, Variety

“Visionary writer-director Vladan Nikolic… concerns and motifs [are] vivid and idiosyncratic, designed to intensify a highly contemporary concern about the loss of freedom and power of the individual to secret, manipulative cartels.”
- Kevin Thomas, LA Times

“fuses the trippy paranoia of Philip K. Dick’s novels with canny use of locations that are already a bit post-apocalyptic.”
- Steve Dollar, Wall Street Journal

The movie is currently in its release across US and Canada. Aside from downloading it free here, (via VODO), you can catch it on Netflix, on VOD platforms in over 15 million homes or buy a DVD here.

Zenith is shared here in 3 installments. Production on the Zenith three-part series is complete and Part 2 & 3 are scheduled to be released in April and May, respecively.

If you decide to donate to the project, your support goes directly to the production of the VODO exclusive “The Next Zenith Tapes”, a mini-feature set in the Zenith world. All supporters $25 or above receive credits in the next episode of Zenith, and Executive Producer credits are available at higher support levels. Check out the ‘Donate’ incentives for the full story!

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Zenith Part 1

Kademlia — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:21:48 +0000

ZENITH is a retro-futuristic steam-punk thriller, about two men in two time periods, whose search for the same grand conspiracy leads them to question their own humanity.

Starting from a fictional recreation of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority experiment (see more on the experiment in Background and Influences), ZENITH plunges into following two parallel stories – of father and son – now, and 40 years into the future.

ZENITH 2011 TRAILER from Surla Films on Vimeo.

“A visually stunning art-house Blade Runner for a generation in thrall to sex, violence, conspiracy, and urban tribalism…”
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill Pick of the Week

“fuses the trippy paranoia of Philip K. Dick’s novels with canny use of locations that are already a bit post-apocalyptic.”
- Steve Dollar, Wall Street Journal

The movie is currently in its release across US and Canada. Aside from downloading it free here, (via VODO), you can catch it on Netflix, on VOD platforms in over 15 million homes or buy a DVD here.

Zenith is shared here in 3 installments. Production on the Zenith three-part series is complete and Part 2 & 3 are scheduled to be released in April and May, respecively.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Valerie — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:00:52 +0000

It’s amazing what you can do with $300, cool web and computer programs, and love for giant robots. Ataque de Panico! (Panic Attack!) is one potential result if you had all of the above, plus lots of talent. This short film is absolutely awesome, to say the least. Visually, it is arresting. Making even Optimus Prime a bit jealous for not getting this treatment.

For a super short film, it packs in a lot of action; blown up buildings, people running around screaming, rockets launching, oh, and did I mention giant robots?Directed by Federico Alvarez, this breathtaking short film has all the makings of a big budget Hollywood movie. Talks are already swirling around that Mr. Alvarez was tapped by none other than top American producer and director, Sam Raimi, to transform this short into a full feature film or at least develop an entirely different film with Alvarez at the helm.

After seeing this short, it’s not hard to understand why this one has been generating a lot of buzz. From giant robots (which we have all come to love), to buildings being blown up, to a cool soundtrack and great special effects; it has it all. And for once, it’s good to see that it’s not an American city that’s being blown up. Instead, the chaos happens in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.

Clocking in under 5 minutes, there’s not much to expect in terms of storyline. Even the director just adds the caption “Giant robots invades Montevideo!” under this video in YouTube. Pretty much, that’s about it. People have complained about that, but if you’re like everybody else, well, you don’t really care.

Maybe when a film gets developed based on this short, we’ll be able to understand why these robots suddenly went berserk and wrecked havoc on this city. However, for now, we can just sit back, relax and enjoy these cool and awesome robots run amok.