A shot from the film I’m working on, ‘Detective City Angel.’
Still From Detective City Angel
Author Archives: Cimaxion
Winning Short Films From Cannes à la Flip
Cannes à la Flip is a contest held at the Cannes Film Festival for short films made with Flip cameras.
The 2011 first place winner is ‘Kiteling’, by Romanian filmmaker Eva Pervolovici.
The second place winner is ‘One Night Avec La Mer’ by Colin L. Racicot:
The third place winner is ‘Youth’ by Ayse Altinok:
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Throws Idiot Texter Out of Theater
MATURE CONTENT AND LANGUAGE:
Oh yeah! Go Alamo Drafthouse Cinema! I’m totally with ya! Listen to this nattering twit with snot for brains as she expresses her outrage over being tossed out of a movie theater minus refund for texting. Sometimes, don’t you wish you could drive a coat hanger through the head of one of these people? I recommend throwing these boneheads out onto the sidewalk face-first. Who gives a fart about a jackoff who needs to text in a movie theater? I’ve actually heard a-holes sitting in movies while engaging in loud telephone conversations. They can become very belligerent and downright dangerous if confronted about their rudeness. It would be nice to see mob reactions in these cases where cell phone users in movie theaters are actually ejected by the audience. They should be thrown into traffic so they can be run over. Cell phones are the great IQ test of our time. To loosely quote an old movie: The more you text, the stupider you are.
Doll Clothes: A Short Film by Cindy Sherman
Artist, photographer, filmmaker Cindy Sherman made this short stop-motion film, Doll Clothes, in 1975. I only just realized during my most recent viewing that she was actually continuing the conversation with Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2.’
There’s a glitch in the YouTube video, so you’ll need to drag the slider a bit to get the movie started.
Duchamp’s ‘Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2’ (1912):
I found this via the Echo Park Film Center.
Star Trek: Phase II
Start Trek: Phase II is an amazingly expert series of fan films made by and starring James Cawley. Aside, from the new faces playing familiar roles, the show nails the original Star Trek look head on. I mean for goodness sake there’s an entire Enterprise bridge set that is perfect. Everything works! A lot of hard work goes into these films and they serve admirably as new Star Trek episodes. Fantastic.
Here’s the Phase II web site.
With thanks to Paul Gallagher at Dangerous Minds.
Artist Profile: X – A Film by Adolfo J. Lara
Here’s some action art complete with painters scaling buildings at night, secret identities and even a police chase. Artist X made the beautiful ‘Thank You Andy Warhol’ images that went up across L.A a few months ago. I drove by one that was attached to one of the pillars holding up a major highway overpass and was struck by it immediately. I even tried to video it with limited success through my windshield.
The film is by Adolfo J. Lara.