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Cinema

Kick The Machine

Founded in 1999, Kick the Machine is an experimental video and film platform active in Thailand.

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Cinema Culture

refractory

Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media is a refereed, peer-reviewed, e-journal that explores the diverging and intersecting aspects of current and past entertainment media.

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Cinema New technologies

Artanim

Brand new motion-capture studio in Geneva, located next to Actua Films and PointProd.

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Cinema

No-Budget filmmaking

An excellent article (with the budgets) on no-budget filmmaking.

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Cinema Electronic arts

Coppola does live cinema

After Peter Greenaway, Mike Figgis and Guy Maddin, Francis Ford Coppola also wants to try live cinema… With his new thriller Twixt, presented at Comic Con.

Guy Maddin’s performance (which I saw in Hollywood at the Egyptian Theater in 2007) was different in the sense that the picture was fixed and linear (a regular projection), but the soundtrack completely live : Alanis Morissette as the narrator — breathtaking !

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Cinema Video

takehollywood

a fun vod web site : acting tips from hollywood movie stars. each video is about 4 US$ to watch.

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Cinema Politics

Arrow cross

Comment prouver la culpabilité d’un ancien officier nazi ?

Plus le temps passe, plus c’est difficile.

Please watch «Music Box».

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Cinema

Fondation romande du cinéma

La toute nouvelle Fondation romande du cinéma, fruit de plus de 2 ans de travail, devrait ouvrir prochainement. Elle va faciliter le travail de recherche de fonds des cinéastes en Suisse romande, en proposant un guichet unifié pour le cinéma francophone d’Helvétie.

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Cinema

Jorge Semprún

Rencontre radiophonique entre Jorge Semprún († 7 juin 2011) et Elia Suleiman, sur l’espoir soulevé par la volonté de démocratie du monde arabe.

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Cinema

Adieu Philippine

«Adieu Philippine» is a film by Jacques Rozier, shot during the Guerre d’Algérie, about a young man, called Michel, who is trying to make a career in the cinema-television industry, in Paris. The syntagmatic structure of the film was analyzed in detail in «Essais sur la signification au cinéma» by Christian Metz, expert of how meaning in constructed by sequencing shots in a narrative film.