Project KARA
TRT: 7:01
Directed By: Quantic Dream.
Project Kara is a five minute short/tech demo developed by Quantic Dream produced to showcase their new engine capable of delivering incredibly complex and emotional motion capture performances. Remember, this is not a pre-rendered cinematic. It is in-game footage running on a current generation PS3, no different than one sitting in your living room.
The Tuning Fork by Edward Gorey
TRT 3:20
Everything Will Be Ok - Directed by Don Hertzfeldt
TRT 17:00
Rosa - Directed by Jesus Orellana
TRT 9:50
Yowie & The Magpie
Directed by Dylan White
Animated Short of the Day: A falling man’s life flashes before his eyes in Steve Cutts’ Guided by Voices-scored animated short “In The Fall.”
[kuriositas.]
Alice in Wonderland (1903)
The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations. In an act that was to echo more than 100 years later, Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. Even the Cheshire cat is played by a family pet.
With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film’s original colours for the first time in over 100 years.
The Tower of Misunderstadning - Directed by Dino Ignacio
TRT: 2:31
Lights Out: Atlanta-based boutique film company Whitestone Motion Pictures presents Heartless — a stupendous, surreal, steampunk-ish, live-action quasi-musical based on the tragic — and tragically little-known — backstory of L. Frank Baum’s Tin Woodsman.
Check out the film’s website for more info, song downloads, and making-of featurettes.
[thanks brandon!]
