Posts tagged "film"

Watch Roger Ballen’s “Outland” (2015)

Phaidon Press has released a revised version of the iconic book Outland by photographer Roger Ballen, who is also featured in our ‘Best Of’ Ten Years one small seed issue. Filmmaker Ben Jay Crossman takes us on a journey to the Outland to show us the mind inside the mind.

Roger Ballen: much more than Die Antwoord’s inspiration

Meeting New York-born, South African-based photographer Roger Ballen was a surreal and humbling experience. His brazen creativity, technique and ability to ‘see’ some one/something in a way you or I might not… A true genius with such a rare and beautiful insight into the human soul and mind. Watch our short doccie and Q&A with...

The Story behind “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song”

We interview the Hollywood icon, Melvin “Block” Van Peebles, who many have called ‘the godfather of modern black cinema’ because of his controversial 1970 film, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song”

All it takes is one small seed… AFDA Awards SA’s future entertainment industry leaders…

At one small seed we believe in celebrating emerging creatives, and watching their seeds grow! This is why the 2014 AFDA Awards Ceremony in Cape Town, on the 27th November, peaked our interest. AFDA (The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance) has ‘produced some of the top film-makers and actors in...

Watch! Music in its most Concrete Form

‘Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.’ ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Watch how Space and Sound dance together in this short film by Itri Hacker. All The Experiments in the Video Are Real.

Unleash Your Fingers: Hands-Down the Best Finger Dance!

In Unleash Your Fingers – a commercial video by LABANDEORIGINALE made for the Samsung Galaxy SII – you can discover the art of Finger Tutting, a new kind of dance performed by LA-based JayFunk. Some brilliant motion design here, just watch!

Watch the “Mad Max: Fury Road” Official Trailer!

The first trailer for the 2015 release Mad Max: Fury Road is online! Directed, produced and co-written by George Miller, Fury Road will be the fourth film in Miller’s Mad Max franchise – and the first to be released in almost 30 years! With many of its exterior shots being filmed in Namibia and South...

45 Years Later, John Lennon’s Words on ‘War & Peace’ Highly Relevant to Today’s Crisis of Violence & Corruption

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced Lenon to do an interview about peace. 45 years later, Levitan produced a film about it. And now – in this time of period of shocking violence, corruption, poverty and...

Escándalo: a Cruise 2014 Fashion Film by Karla Colletto

It-girl is on the run in Karla Colletto‘s new Cruise 2014 short film, entitled Escándalo. Where she’s going, nobody knows! Ah, life!

SYN-Phon (Graphic Notation)

Budapest Art Factory (BAF) is pleased to present to you SYN-Phon; sound performance based on graphical notation by Candaş Şişman featuring Barabás Lőrinc and Ölveti Mátyás. Candaş Şişman resided at BAF for the month of June as part of its cross-cultural fertilization residency program. (Length:10:57)

Long Days

An alluring woman living at a roadside motel carries out an earthly routine, but over the course of a night her true nature is revealed. (Length: 16:07)

Beyond: A sci fi short

Arya (Bianca Malinowski) is the last remaining member of her family, a lineage with a unique genetic code that grants the ability to survive the folding of temporal and spatial boundaries… In short, she can teleport. Tasked with exploring new planets, she is in search of something that will explain who exactly she is and...

JOBURG PARTY! – A snapshot of SA’s new youth underground

Over two days and nights in Johannesburg, South Africa, Rod Stanley & Chris Saunders travelled to illegal rooftop parties, warehouse raves, street fashion shoots and poolside jams to meet some of the young musicians, DJs, zine publishers and artists set on taking the SA scene global, and asked them how the city’s youth culture is...
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