FAKT Visual Lab

  • Fan Film

    Interview with Joe Sill (Kara)

    Director Joe Sill joins us to discuss his latest short film 'Kara' - a Star Wars fan-film featuring some impressive VFX work.

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    Experimental Jonathan Bensimon

    Tokyo/Glow

    Time-lapse perfection illuminates a narrative about stepping outside the box—literally!

  • News

    Jossie Malis, Bendito Machine 2 & 3

    Jossie Malis has been hard at work expanding the genius behind his original Bendito Machine to a larger audience. The striking visual style (dark silhouette shapes against brightly colored backgrounds), nuanced animation, and themes of western influence have been brought to 2 more episodes.

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    Satire Andrew Cividino

    We Ate the Children Last

    What happens when society embraces a radical medical breakthrough without fully understanding its side effects?

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    Drama Finbar Watson & Alec Green

    Teacups

    For almost half a century, Don Ritchie (Hugo Weaving) would approach people contemplating suicide at the edge of a cliff near his home. Teacups is a poignant animation about his life, his surreal interactions with hundreds of suicidal individuals and his journey to reconcile the suicide of his best friend.

  • Festival

    Retro Short Films: Tribeca 2011 Film Festival

    Tribeca's (Online) Film Festival this year is quite extensive: 6 feature films, 9 in-competition shorts and these—9 "retro" shorts from the festival's past, all available for free! We'll cover this year's competition shorts in a series of forthcoming posts, but remember that Tribeca has their own spin on this online thing, so make sure to reserve a 24-hour screening window for each film in advance. These 9 retro shorts are a bit easier to manage, rather than signing up for specific 24-hour screening periods, they are available to view at any time between now and May 1st.

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    Drama Julia Pott

    Howard

    The mysteries of the heart are front in center in London-animator Julia Pott's examination of love, faded.

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    Thriller Vincenzo Natali

    Elevated

    A taut horror-thriller set entirely within an elevator, this short film from Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice), is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.

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    Documentary Nicholas Maher

    You And The Thing That You Love

    A teenage Midwest skate punk on the verge of going pro has a freak accident and wakes up blind. This is a story of pain, grit, fight, uncertainty, fear, desperation, and most importantly — love.

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