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Cinema Culture

Mon cousin psychanalyste

Canard de psychanalyse engagé, dans lequel écrit un lointain cousin (?) parisien que je ne connaissais pas, dans le sillage du structuralisme (vous avez dit «French Theory» ?).

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Cinema Electronic arts Video

Cultural analytics

A definition of cultural analytics by video artist Kurt Ralske.

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Cinema Culture

Jazz en Pologne

et musique des premiers films de Polanski.

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Cinema Electronic arts

Expanded Cinema

Named after the classic book by Gene Youngblood, this exhibiton at the new Dutch Film Museum runs until December 2nd.

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Cinema

Cité du cinéma

Inauguration of Luc Besson’s Cité du cinéma last Friday just outside of Paris, in an old electric power plant. Vive le cinéma !

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Cinema Electronic arts

gesamt

A collective film project by Lars Von Trier, now open for submissions.

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Cinema New technologies

Open-source filmmaking

Example of a completely open-source film production pipeline :

Screenwriting, Shooting, 3D modeling/rendering, Editing/Compositing, Streaming

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Cinema

the Gaza surf club

When you have nothing left, no freedom, but just a very small landlocked strip of land,
there is still : the Gaza surf club. Prochainement sur vos écrans!

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Cinema Electronic arts

Disney meets Darwin

I have been so busy not celebrating my 35th birthday.. I am rediscovering the work of pioneers in computer animation and artificial life, including Karl Sims, Christopher Langton, Craig Reynolds, John Whitney, etc. In academia, the work of the Visible Language Workshop at MIT Media Lab, and the Thalmanns in Geneva and Lausanne.

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Cinema New technologies

The future of animation

Annecy is holding its 50th International animation film festival this week.
And Memo Atken did it again !  His latest work called «Forms» is a
remarkable study of human motion, as part of the London Olympics.