God - a short film by Greg Brunkalla

God - a short film by Greg Brunkalla

As a university student questions his sexuality, his fraternity becomes obsessed with a young woman whose poem challenges them all. "God" was adapted from a short story originally published in The Paris Review and written by Benjamin Nugent. Listen to Jesse Eisenberg read the original short story here: https://ift.tt/2Byv4DH A tale about sexual questioning within a fraternity atmosphere, "God" gets us into the head of daydreaming university student nicknamed ‘Oprah’. Submersed in the "bro" culture, his fraternity's obsession with a poem and its poetess, begin to inform him more about himself than he might be ready to accept. Oprah's masculinity, sexuality and brotherhood between his closest friends, all quickly come into question as his life marches anxiously forward.

Reclaiming The Negative | A North Korean Defector's Large Format Portrait

Reclaiming The Negative | A North Korean Defector's Large Format Portrait

Reclaiming The Negative looks at a North Korean defector's extraordinary and harrowing escape from her country of birth and the artistic process of a large format photographer who captures a series of stunning portraits of her and other North Korean refugees living in Seoul, South Korea. Tim Franco's book: https://ift.tt/3eN9zgs Eun-Ju Kim's book: https://ift.tt/2XWykQL (author listed as Eunsun Kim) Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, roughly 31,000 North Koreans have defected from their home country to South Korea. In 2018, photographer Tim Franco began shooting a series of large format portraits using an unusual technique for a book detailing some of their experiences. The film takes a more intimate look at the human side of the highly political subject matter. Film and Music by Mike Beech Translations by Jiwon Lee Sound design by Ben Hensor Special thanks to: Sei Yeon Lee Seoul Foreign Press Center Kathy Yun

WE ARE GEORGE FLOYD

WE ARE GEORGE FLOYD

On May 25th, 2020, Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, murdered George Floyd, a black man, by driving his knee into George's neck for 8 minutes and 45 seconds until he died. This film chronicles New York City's overwhelming response. Please help me share this film with the world. A film by: Julian Marshall Sound design: Geoff Strasser Special thanks: Bilali Mack https://ift.tt/14tPNAO @JulianMarshall

Travelogue Tel Aviv

Travelogue Tel Aviv

A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing he will learn to analyze, understand and free himself from this contrasted environment. Regie/Direction/Régie: Patthey Samuel Animation: Patthey Samuel, Wirth Claudia, Moser Valentine, Oehen Hannes, Gattlen Estelle, Mueller Alice Compositing: Patthey Samuel, Oehen Hannes Musik/Music/Musique: Gobet Julien, Overney Patrick Foleys: Hebben Dieter Sounddesign: Winiger Nina, Steinmann Christof, Patthey Samuel Tonschnitt/Sound Editing/Montage du son: Winiger Nina, Steinmann Christof Mentor: Chalet Francois Produktionssupport/Technical Support/Support Technique: First Jean Assistenz/Assitant/Assistant: Hunziker Lea Sekretariat/Secretariat/Secrétariat: Ganassi Bettina Förderung/Funding/Financement: AKL / Braunschweig Arthur Ausführender Produzent/Executive Producer/Producteur Exécutif: Gockell Gerd Produktion/Production/Production: HSLU Design & Kunst / BA Animation Jürgen Haas Co-Produktion/Co-production/Co-production: SRF / Bloch Steinmann Gabriela

NEVADA

NEVADA

It gets moving. The air begins to be populated. Dense, possessed. An alarm clock in the morning. The routine and the people staring at it. The cities have a peculiarity, they make us invisible. Light enters through all the windows. In all those tables, the toasts jumping in the air becomes irretrievably anonymous. Even denser. Even more routinely. There's no sense of screaming. Disappearance is imminent. It falls, over the night. NEVADA. The short film is inspired by the Argentine classic of science fiction "El Eternauta" by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López, a graphic novel published in 1957. Nevada is a digital collage created under the premise that all its elements are free-to-use 3D models and animations. A compositional path that, depending on the narration, combines these pieces, achieving coherence and unity within their visual universe. Director: Guillermo Daldovo Edited by: Agustin Svarzchtein Sound designer: Nicolas Cecinini Music: Vivaldi Guitar Trio Technique: 3D digital collage

ACID (ACIDE) by Just Philippot

ACID (ACIDE) by Just Philippot

18 minutes - 1.33 - 2017 LA PETITE PROD contact@lapetiteprod.fr lapetiteprod.fr - Facebook.com/LaPetiteProd A troubling cloud is taking shape somewhere out west. It’s now slowly moving inland, forcing population to run away. As the cloud keeps on moving forward inescapably, panic strikes. That cumulus is acid. Un nuage inquiétant a pris forme quelque part à l'ouest. Il remonte lentement vers le centre du pays, jetant la population sur les routes. Devant l'inexorable avancée du nuage, c'est la panique générale. Ce cumulus est acide.

2020 ICP Infinity Awards - Online Platforms and New Media - The 1619 Project of the New York Times Magazine

2020 ICP Infinity Awards - Online Platforms and New Media - The 1619 Project of the New York Times Magazine

See the full project at: https://ift.tt/2yiKtqe Origin stories are important. They give us a sense of identity, purpose, and history. They help us understand who we are. But origin stories are notoriously incomplete; favoring certain historical details over others. The United States has such a story; a story written by men who celebrated universal rights while subjecting, demeaning and enslaving whole nations and communities of people. That horrific contradiction and its implications have rippled throughout American history. Nikole Hannah-Jones, a domestic correspondent for The New York Times, has been thinking about that contradiction since high school when she learned of the date 1619; the first recorded date of forcibly enslaved peoples arriving in the colony of Virginia. Hannah-Jones wondered what it meant to be a country that was actually based on slavery? What would it mean for us if we considered 1619 our true origin and not 1776? And that was the conceit of The 1619 Project; a massive effort by The New York Times Magazine, which was spearheaded and conceived of by Hannah-Jones to detail the history of slavery, it’s lasting effects within our culture, and to celebrate the often-suppressed role of formerly enslaved peoples in making American democracy manifest. 2020 ICP Infinity Awards Since 1985, the International Center of Photography has recognized outstanding achievements in photography with its prestigious Infinity Awards. The awards ceremony is also ICP’s primary fundraising benefit, with its revenues assisting the center's various programs. Harbers Studios commissioned MediaStorm, on behalf of ICP, to create a short film about each of the recipients to screen at the awards ceremony and to display online. The films pay tribute to the contributions of each artist to the craft and field of photography and demonstrate ICP's commitment to them. Connect with MediaStorm MediaStorm Publication Subscription: https://ift.tt/3cOhKZz YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MediaStormDotOrg Vimeo: https://ift.tt/1D2CWq3 Facebook:  https://ift.tt/3cNm2Ac Twitter: https://twitter.com/MediaStorm Instagram: https://ift.tt/3g6pDLV LinkedIn: https://ift.tt/2XeOC6X Newsletter: https://ift.tt/2zfAEKe