Posted in animation on November 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Mirage
Youngwoong Jang. USA, 2006.
A bio-machenical robot fights for survival capturing water that is vital for him drop by drop, not knowing that he is really submerged in water. A tale with Zen echoes of the absurdity of accumlating desires and false necessities.
Nettalk
David Rice. USA, 2007.
An invasive experiment on acquiring language. Warning: watching this short film [...]
Posted in cult movies on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the second delivery of the summary of the book Curtis Harrington: Danse Macabre
2. A certain tendency in avant-garde cinema
From the 1940s, when Hollywood institutional cinema installed itself as the one and only discourse in the world, a radical and daring avant-garde emerged from the dark damp back-alleys of the Mecca of film. This [...]
Posted in video games on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last October I went, together with my colleague Dani Aranda, to Paisley (Scotland), where we presented a paper in the First European Conference on Games-Based Learning, hosted by University of Paisley and Thomas Connolly & Mark Stansfield. The title of our paper is “Leisure Time and Personal Development through Video Games: A Case Study Under [...]
Posted in animation on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jeu
Georges Schwizgebel. Switzerland-Canada, 2007.
From beginning to end, Jeu is a continuing whirlwind of images in constant change. This stunningly beautiful metaphor for the current everyday life’s speed confirms the extraordinary talent for exploring life’s geometry, and the undisputable master skill in the use of paint of one of the key names in contemporary animation; that [...]
Posted in cult movies on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In 2003, I had the opportunity to write a small book on Curtis Harrington, a stimulant filmmaker whose work, despite being hidden in the margins of what is recognized by institutionalized critics, offers countless rewards when one comes close to it. That year I was lucky enough to know him personally and discuss with him [...]
Posted in animation on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Alter Ego
Kuba Gryglicki. Poland, 2007.
In a ramshackle house somewhere in the wilds, a mysterious man tries to discover his real nature: is he a buffoon with delusions of grandeur, or a fallen king? Pure European fantastique in an ingenious and disturbing variation of the topic of the doppleganger. Who does look at us when we [...]
Posted in television on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I proudly contribute to Elitevisión, an encyclopedic project born with the intention of providing anything more than a grain of sand to the scene of the television criticism on the internet. As one of its top promoters, blogger and journalist John Tones, says: “EliTeVisión wants to do detailed analysis of the avalanche of simultaneous arguments [...]
