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Immersive Cocoon
By adNAU
Keir Dullea encounters a mysterious object, in a scenario reminiscent of the penultimate scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey that he appeared in over forty years ago.
This spec teaser was developed over a two year period on a shoestring budget. Live action was filmed multi-camera, against greenscreen atop a backlit plexi floor. Mr. Dullea was then integrated into an entirely digitally created CG set rendered at 1080HD.
The Immersive Cocoon is a future concept study by Tino Schaedler with design collective NAU; an idea to push the envelope and provoke a new conception and evolution of computer interaction.
Directed & 3D CG by Oliver Zeller. More at i-cocoon.com. Making Of video: vimeo.com/22793735.
Blank City
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By Celine Danhier
Documentary – 94min
BLANK CITY tells the long-overdue tale of a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. In the late 1970′s and mid 80′s, when the city was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these directors crafted daring works that would go on to profoundly influence the development of independent film as we know it today.
Directed by French newcomer Céline Danhier, BLANK CITY weaves together an oral history of the “No Wave Cinema” and “Cinema of Transgression” movements through compelling interviews with the luminaries who began it all. Featured players include acclaimed directors Jim Jarmusch and John Waters, actor-writer-director Steve Buscemi, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, Hip Hop legend Fab 5 Freddy, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, photographer Richard Kern as well as Amos Poe, James Nares, Eric Mitchell, Susan Seidelman, Beth B, Scott B, Charlie Ahearn and Nick Zedd. Fittingly, the soundtrack includes: Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Contortions, The Bush Tetras, Sonic Youth and many more.
©2010 Pure Fragment Films
App Explores Movie Connections Like Scientists Study Genes
Via Wired, by Brandon Keim
We live in an age of networks, with ever more appreciation for connections: among proteins, people, ecosystems and economies — or just about any system made up of linked units. And as connection-mapping tools become more sophisticated, there’s a need for new ways of interacting with those maps, going beyond description to exploration.
A new iPhone app called * Movies Mobile, developed by the New England Complex Systems Institute, is a preview of such tools. A front end for a network map of IMDB’s top 500 movies, it allows people to explore connections among films as researchers might examine pathways of genes or proteins.
What’s unique isn’t the map itself, but the level of exploration the interface provides, said Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of the institute.
“Say I show you a big network. You can see there are major rings, that in places it’s highly or weakly connected, or clustered. You want to say, ‘What is this cluster?’ This lets you touch one node and see what it is. You can see both the whole and the pieces,” said Bar-Yam.
The network itself is based on analysis of relationships among words and phrases in IMDB user comments. The map reflects connections made by viewers’ tastes and impressions; it could just as easily have been designed to map links between actors and directors, or to map something other than movies.
An earlier test of the program was conducted on anthropological documents produced by the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System in Afghanistan. It could also be done with economic networks, networks of genes, disease spread, social groups. Bar-Yam’s group is best known for studying the structural influences of networks in panicking stock markets and economic collapses.
“These are just the first couple applications,” said Bar-Yam. “There could be many.”
* Movies Mobile is available in free and paid versions. There’s also a YouTube tutorial for using it. Proceeds from sales will support research at the New England Complex Systems Institute.
Image: Screen grabs from the * Movies Mobile app. Left: The network formed by comments on the top 500 IMDB movies. Right: Links between Gone With the Wind and the most closely related movies (* Movies Mobile).
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