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Go East Young Man
I woke this morning with a pair of dilemmas brewing: how to spend the better part of day in the sunshine and on what film to write my inaugural musing? Last week I saw Julian Schnabel’s ‘The Diving...
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Farewell to the Kingdom of Shadows
This week I saw a 5-minute film that would seem to herald the death of cinema. There’s been talk recently about the convergence of television and film at a formal level: some half a century after...
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When There’s No More Room In Hell, Let’s Go Shopping
Over the last year I’ve watched with a slight tinge of bewilderment as the Westfield London Shopping Centre has materialised out of the wastelands around BBC Television Centre. Built in a style that...
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Not Seeing Is Believing
The end of Raiders of the Lost Ark illustrates an important philosophy in cinema: if you don’t see it, it doesn’t exist. Indiana and Marion avoid complete annihilation by simply averting their gaze...
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Soup: An Exercise in After Effects
Of late I’ve been playing around with Adobe After Effects, which would seem an odd sort of thing to get involved with for a documentary filmmaker, but as all filmmakers trade in visual information, I’m...
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Colours: An Exercise in After Effects
More After Effects fun, this time with the theme “Colours”. Click to watch (you’ll need QuickTime):
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