The concluding chapter of BMW's branded documentary experiment which I'm posting a day late. Apologies, I know you must be simply FURIOUS with me! No, really, if you've been eagerly awaiting these, then I'm sorry.
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - A bizarre instructional film from Gus Van Sant's early days as a filmmaker that teaches us to perfect the details of everyday life and turns out to be an appropriate allegory for filmmaking.
The 2011 Movie Extra Tropfest short film festival took place today in Australia, and of the 16 films, Animal Beatbox by Damon Gameau was declared the winner. [caption id="attachment_4816" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Click to Watch "Animal Beatbox""][/caption] The field was strong this year, with Joel Edgerton of the Blue-Tongue Collective represented for his film Monkeys, as well Mankind is No Island filmmaker and prior winner of Tropfest New York, Jason Van Genderen for The Unspoken.
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - Robert Rodriguez teams up with Kobe for an action-packed, zombie-chasing showdown.
It may not be Sundance or Cannes, but out of Nijmegen, Netherlands, the GoShort International Film Festivalan exciting, young European Short Film Festhas put together a rather nice online program in support of it's 3rd edition next month. From now until March 31st, the festival will be showing 10 short films on its website, ranging from 2min to 7min30.
The simple follies of youth are captured so beautifully in this kaleidoscope of teenage moments.
The Grim Reaper waits patiently as the residents of a small western outpost turn on one another in this student film from The Animation Workshop.
3rd of this 4 part BMW series debuts today, titled "Reinventing Mobility". In this installment our crew of talking heads gets a little more concrete about what we can expect around the corner from our automobiles.
