Category: Film
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Journal: Back “Hyper-Reality: A New Vision of the Future” by Keiichi Matsuda
Production drawings by Keiichi Matsuda An uncharacteristically brief post just to point you at Keiichi Matsuda's Kickstarter campaign, launched today, for his ambitious new films about the modern city, set in Medellin, Colombia. Matsuda's previous work is quite brilliant—I've mentioned it before—and the premise of this new series is even more promising: "It will be…
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Sketchbook: Fabrica 2013 Informal Annual Review: Film: “Ai Pioppi”
Film work has been at the core of Fabrica's output and culture since the start—the original creative director was Godfrey Reggio (of Koyaanisqatsi fame) and Fabrica even has an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film from its time as a production company around the turn of the century. So it's been particularly rewarding to see…
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Journal: Fabrica Lectures
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Since I've been at Fabrica, one simple thing we've done is to increase the frequency of the lectures and workshops we host here. Fabrica had a long tradition of inviting people to come and talk, or run workshops—in the distant past we had everyone from Tomato to Issey Miyake, Ferran Adrià to Michael Nyman (sadly…
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Journal: Watch Dogs and world creation
It seems to me that there are around three hundred interesting things about these clips from the forthcoming game Watch Dogs. None of those things particularly concern the plot, characterisation, narrative, but rather the creation of worlds, especially urban worlds. I would love to stretch out into a post here about "world creation", but there's…
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Journal: Fabrica
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I’m writing this flying over the Alps, on BA579 from Venice to London. It’s a big blue sky lit by hazy sunshine, and the Alps look unreal. We just flew a few metres over a contrail, a perpendicular arc into the sunlight, hundreds of kilometres long, a surprisingly distinct temporary structure of curly vapour. Best…
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Utopia London
Via the director Tom Cordell, news of his new documentary Utopia London: "The film observes the method and practise of the Modernist architects who rebuilt London after World War Two. It shows how they revolutionised life in the city in the wake of destruction from war and the poor living conditions inherited from the Industrial…
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Journal: Contingent: recent films by BERG/Dentsu London and Keiichi Matsuda
Two (or three) recent films are worth watching for how they accurately depict the grain of the future. They are 'Making Future Magic' by BERG/Dentsu London: And 'Augmented City'/'Domestic Robocop' by Keiichi Matsuda: Both films – I'm counting Matsuda's as one film for the sake of argument – are interesting as they convey a sense…
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TITLE Music and Film, and the importance of being locally-owned
Locally-owned independent retailers contribute a vast amount to cities. Equally, it’s almost impossible to see how national or multinational chains genuinely contribute much to cities at all. That’s not to say that national retailers don’t have a place – the Mujis of this world clearly contribute a great deal, economically but also symbolically, as cultural…
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Ballardian home movies
I’d like to organize a Festival of Home Movies! It could be wonderful — thousands of the things… You might find an odd genius, a Fellini or Godard of the home movie, living in some suburb. I’m sure it’s coming… Using modern electronics, home movie cameras and the like, one will begin to retreat into…
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Drawing with sight and sound
I thought the following was an interesting observation by director Ang Lee (from the January 2008 edition of Sight & Sound magazine). Interesting in relation to the idea of an almost synaesthetic approach to visual representation via information-dense icons &c.: Nick James: There’s a beautiful little book by Donald Richie that explains Japanese aesthetics. I…