A young boy befriends the monster under his bed in this seasonal advert for John Lewis by director Michel Gondry (previously featured here). While some aren’t quite sold on it, check it out for yourself above! Music: elbow performing The Beatles’ track “Golden Slumbers.”
A wonderful, behind-the-scenes look at the running of the MoMA! At the Museum is a new 8-part documentary series that follows museum staff as exhibitions are designed, installed and opened to the public. In the latest episode, a team of curators face a number of pressing decisions in preparation for two new exhibitions: Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait and Max Ernst: Beyond Painting.
Watch “Pressing Matters” above and click here to check out their YouTube channel for past (and future) episodes — a new instalment will be released every Friday until December 15!
Creator/Producer: Eva Kozanecka
Co-Producer: Sean Yetter
Cinematography: Ben Effinger, Nathan Lynch, Tomasz Werner, Sean Yetter
Editor: Kenneth Casey Swoyer
Assistant Editor: Nicholas Nazmi
Sound Mixer: Sean Yetter
Audio Post: One Thousand Birds
Colorist: Nat Jencks / Goldcrest
Production Intern: Jenny Chan
Development Interns: Riley Cavanaugh, Katarzyna Lukasik, Grace Poole
Atmospheric video for Polish singer Natalia Nykiel’s track “Total Blekit” by Warsaw-based director Łukasz Zabłocki (previously featured here). Cinematography by Kajetan Plis.
Director – Łukasz Zabłocki
DoP – Kajetan Plis
Montaż – Nikodem Chabior
1AD – Janusz Dąbkiewicz
Focus puller – Piotr Kwiatkowski
Steadicam – Maciej Tomków – Steadicam & Timelapse
IIAC – Michał Cholewiński
Casting – Casting Krzysztof Łączak
Kostiumograf – Iwona Łęczycka “Starka”
II Kostiumograf – Olga Szepan
Make up – Agnieszka Hodowana
II Make up – Monika Medyńska Mańsko
Fryzjer – Katarzyna Kajdan Hair
Make up (Natalia) – Katarzyna Sobura
Mistrz oświetlenia – Darek Barwiejuk
Making of – Krzysztof Kłósek
Dyżur – Mateusz Janczak
Camp – Robert Zembrzuski
Dron – D’Erceville Regiment
SFX – Hotsfx
Postprodukcja:
Postprodukcja – LUNAPARK motion arts collective
Kolor korekcja – Szymon Kraszewski
Online – Jacek Ostaszewski
Post production menager – Kaja Juszczakiewicz
Producent – Silver Frame Stanisław Zaborowski , Daria Ciesielska
Kierownik produkcji – Klaudia Chełchowska
This video was submitted to us by Zabłocki and selected by our team! Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out.
A nice animated breakdown of the current state of cryptocurrencies (i.e. Bitcoin) and the likelihood of their acceptance into the mainstream. Designed by Brooklyn-based illustrator and animator Sylvia Yang for Bloomberg Businessweek. BTW: If you don’t know what a blockchain is either, consider revisiting this MIT explainer, previously posted here!
Producer: Raymond Schillinger
Writers: Lily Katz and Camila Russo
Art direction and Design: Sylvia Yang
Animation: Andrew Embury, Ricardo Mendes, Ronaldo Serrano, Daniel Elder, Kyle Martinez
Sound Design: Sebastian Oliwa
Berlin-based director Jonas Vahl and Bavaria-born director Johannes Geier capture the transcendence of running a 100 meter dash in this flashy, fast-paced short. A recent film school graduate, Geier shared his passion for the project with us:
“As a 100 meter sprinter I wanted to create this movie 6 years ago and eventually it made it to my graduate film during my studies at Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. I joined forces with Directors, Producers and DoPs I admire to show how a 100 meter race feels.”
Directed by Johannes Geier & Jonas Vahl
Director of Photography: Maximilian Pittner
Assistant Director: Luca Homolka
Producer: Karli Baumann, Ludwig Meck, Lukas Bäuerle, Sebastian Raphael – Le Berg
Executive Producer: Le Berg
Production Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Editor: Raquel Caro Nuñez
Production Design: Maike Kiefer
Colorist: Dennis Wieck – Harvest Digital Agriculture
Music: Heimer – “Actroid Gurl (Edit)” taken from “Teilzeit Swag” (2016)
Sound Design: Moritz Drath
Tartan Track Foleys: Johanna Roth
Set Unit Manager: Marvin Marte
Runner: Alexander Wolf David, Ben Miethke
1st AC: Claudia Hector
2nd AC & Wrangler: Lucas Maibaum
Cablecam Operator: Andreas Kielb
Underwater Camera: David Dincer
Camera Intern: Marius Müller
Best Boy: Lukas Eichner
Best Boy: Jan Wittkopp
Electrician: Markus Guserle
Electrician: Larius Kieninger
Key Grip: Sascha Ronge
Grip: Manuel Musch
Motion Graphics: Tobias Frei, Johannes Geier
Storyboard Artist: Tobias Pinegger
Mood Trailer 1: Dave Jasim
LED Screen Operator: Tobias Frei
Art Department: Jonas Sorg, Zelda Lange, Susanne Gartner, Maximilian Becht
Hair & Make Up: Janina Hinterstocker
Styling: Jonas Vahl
Catering: Gabriel Waldvogel, Esther Busch, Jan-Hendrik Holst
Lifeguard: Alexander Schiemann, Kirstin Franke
VFX Supervising Set: Kai Götz
VFX Post Supervising: Johannes Geier
VFX Consulting: Andreas Dahn, Thomas Sali, Denis Krez
Hurricane Modeling, Simulation, Compositing: Mario Bertsch
Hurricane Modeling, Texturing: Till Sander-Titgemeyer
Hurricane Matte Painting: Marc Zimmermann – Epic Scapes
Tartan Black Hole: Christian Kaufmann
Snow Landscape: Marvin Sprengel
Retouch: Mario Bertsch, Joey
Cast:
Runner Track 1: Edmund Timpf
Runner Track 2: Hertier Faustin Kambuya
Judge: Lea Wennberg
Thanks: Frischvergiftung
Project supervisors: Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Alexander Hanowski
Supported by Caligari Förderpreis 2017
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 2017
Another irresistible video for Bomba Estéreo by Copenhagen-based director Torben Kjelstrup (previously featured here). “Internacionales” follows a travel agent confronted with the fact that she’s never been traveling herself. This is just one of the many creative submissions we’ve received this week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
An ongoing series devised by London-based studio Mount Audio, Forms sees the Mount team creating unique audiovisual works in collaboration with different artists. Presented in partnership with FormFiftyFive, this instalment features the trippy motion work of Los Angeles-based artist Bryant Nichols.
This is just one of the many fun submissions we’ve received this week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!
Beautiful work by director Marek Partys from the Czech Republic and Slovakia-based cinematographer Dušan Husár for Christian Löffler’s new video. Made in coordination with Amnesty International, “Haul” tells the story of the children and youth worldwide who are forced to flee their homes due to war or violence.
Director: Marek Partys
1st AD: Georgie Uris
Dop: Dusan Husar
Production: Julie Žačkova
Art Director: Nina Feriancova
Costumes: Cina Marcinkova
Make up: Alžběta Okuněvová
1st AC: Ludvík Otevřel
Grip: Majo Žilinčan
Color Grade: Xavi Santalaya
Note from Amnesty International: There are currently 22,5 million refugees worldwide, over half of them are children. Over 3,5 million refugee children have no access to education. According to Interpol 10 000 children asylum seekers have been lost in europe between 2014-16. Nobody knows what happend to them and where they are. On the way to safety through Mediterranean 800 children were drowned in 2016. Legal and safe ways to safety do almost no exist. Click here for more information.
Los Angeles-based director Jonny Look and Ought’s Scottie Cameron challenged themselves to create devices of great convenience using only three items for the band’s track “These 3 Things.” The result is a weird and wonderful critique of what we lose when trying to save ourselves time and energy. As Jonny shared his insights with us:
“When initially testing the convenance machines without the human variable we discovered luxury and success. However it was sterile. The beauty only came with the unpredictable moments brought by the human element. Being human is better then looking for an easy way out.”
Man: Michael Gitomer
Director: Jonny Look and Scottie Cameron
Production: Special Projects
Production Design: Philip Salick
Key Grip: Max Joslyn
Gaffer: Levi Kaminkowitz
Production Assistant: Denver Stoddard
FX and Conform: Josh Cole
Color: Daniel Stonehouse at Crayon
Edit: Jonny Look and Aaron Beckum
Special thanks: Lauren Malizia, Ben Winter, Mandy Cheng, XIX Studio, Chris Boadle
A lovely, wordless portrait of French photographer Alexis Pichot’s latest project, “Marche Celeste,” for which Pichot spent over a year venturing into the forest alone at night to shoot his light installations. Here Paris-based photographer and director Maximilien Franco joins him for 3 nights in an effort to capture something of Pichot’s experience.
A mesmerizing showreel of photographic visuals and newer experiments by Brighton-based artist Davy Evans. Originally created for The Xx’s album Coexist, all visuals were created in-camera and made to reflect the organic production of the record.
