Archive for March, 2008
A Journey Across Grandmother
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Meghana Bisineer, 5:21—Having purchased a new iPod recently I recognise there is beauty to be found in economy and abridgement. Meghana Bisineer’s six minute movie, A Journey Across Grandmother, delivers just these qualities. Its story is a touching one, the relationship of an infant girl with her revered, dying grandmother. Events unfold over the summer […]
Interview with Tom Stern
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Where did the concept for The New Science come from? And how much of it is truly autobiographical?
When I made The New Science, I had just gotten done working on a project that very much became a project “by-committee.” So when I started to work on The New Science it was important to me […]
The Autobiography of Tom Stern, Chapter Six: The New Science
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008dir: Tom Stern, 9:20—Beginning a new relationship can be tough, tougher still when you’re not who you once were and your ex’s Fall (particularly derogatory) and Winter (quite competitive) live with with Him and constantly weigh in on the snow cone conversions he has with She. Confused?
The Autobiography of Tom Stern, Chapter Six: The New […]
Interview with Super Deluxe
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008I had the chance to throw a few questions at Dan Pasternack, the man behind content programming at Super Deluxe, about #12 Derek & Simon and how online entertainment is more “ballsy” than television:
Bob Odenkirk’s Derek and Simon show began as a TV pilot but was never picked up. How did the idea to develop […]
Derek & Simon: The Show
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Bob Odenkirk, 3:05—It first surfaced in 2005, when a pilot show called Derek & Simon was produced for HBO. For reasons known only to a handful of sorry fools, the show was never picked up and landed on top of the pile of rejects.
Most shows die right there on that pile—their tape shrivels up and […]
Interview with Kurt Nishimura
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008How did you hear about the contest MtvU/Decemberists contest and what made you want to participate?
I heard about The Decemberists contest from an e-newsletter that my school put out (The Art Institute
of Portland). The deadline was like two weeks away, and I was seriously considering passing it by. However, thankfully my friends convinced me otherwise.
The […]
O Valencia!
Sunday, March 9th, 2008Online video has got everybody all frothed up and excited, consumers, producers, advertisers, suits. But a lot of people are getting paid big bucks to try and figure how to bring the participatory culture of the web to old media. Even though their products still represent giant forces in the formation of our culture, […]
The Pearce Sisters
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008dir: Luis Cook, 9:15—In the words of its makers, The Pearce Sisters—a short film based on the story by Mick Jackson and produced by Aardman Animations—is “a bleak hearted tale of love, loneliness, guts, gore, nudity, violence, smoking and cups of tea.” And you know how well tea parties and loneliness mix. Enter the sisters, […]