Jim Goldblum, Adam Weber und Josh Cogan aus New York haben versucht, über die Crowdfunding-Plattform Kickstarter 40.000 Dollar für ihr Dokumentarfilmprojekt “Tomorrow We Disappear” über indische Fahrensleute in einem Slum in Delhi zusammenzubekommen. Am 13. November 2011 wurde die Projektfinanzierung mit 61.931 Dollar von 540 Unterstützern erfolgreich abgeschlossen; dazu gab es noch 3.877 Facebok-Likes.
Zu dem Projekt schreiben die drei: For hundreds of years roaming artists traveled the Indian countryside, creating the stories, the mythological backbone that would unite a country. Before radio, film, and television, these artists helped form what we now call the Web of India. In the 1950s the artists ended their itinerant routes and moved into vacant land beside a jungle in West Delhi. They called their new home the Kathputli Colony. The colony is now a tinsel slum, providing home to some of the world’s greatest street magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers. But last year the government sold the Kathputli land to real estate developers; the slum is to be bulldozed and cleared for development. Our film, “Tomorrow We Disappear,” will take you into the world of the Kathputli Colony, to experience the last remnants of its unique culture before it’s too late.
Zu “Early in the morning” schreibt der schwedische Filmer Kristoffer Jansson: “I couldn’t go to sleep, so I took a walk outisde early in the morning. A storm was heading my way, I could hear some light thunder. I saw some fog moving slowly down from the mountain, I thought it would be cool to do some time-lapse. Then I figure out to shot some more stuff.”
Auf diesem aufgefalteten Umschlag verzeichnete Galileo Galilei über einen Zeitraum von mehreren Nächten die Positionen der vier Monde des Jupiter. Er beobachtete die Monde mit Hilfe eines neu gebauten Fernrohrs und veröffentlichte seine Erkenntnisse 1610 in dem revolutionären Buch Sidereus Nuncius (”Sternenbote”). In einer radikalen Abkehr von seiner universitären Ausbildung bestand er darauf, seine wissenschaftlichen Theorien durch Beobachtung und physische Beweise zu belegen, statt sich nur auf alte Autoritäten zu stützen.
Das Dokument befindet sich in der Morgan Library in New York.
“Alan Toffolo, a young italian farmer, who loves his job, has always dreamed of working with heavy machinery on big fields. One day he decides to fulfill his dream and finds the cotton in Australia. I advised him to buy a small HD camera and bring back the maximum of footage. This was the first time he shot video. After 9 months of hard work and loneliness, he returned tired but happy, rich in experiences and a hard disc full of surprising images”:
Ryan Killackey about “A Day in California“: “I worked on this project on and off for over a year and a half. It is composed of over 10,000 photos shot in California by my wife and I.” Time-lapse footage of the Golden State set to the tune of Cinematic Orchestra — now with 100% more tilt-shift!
Am Abend des 29. Juni zeigte die Live-Kamera an dem Atomkraftwerk Fukushima Scharen von Krähen. Das Hauptgeschehen ist ab 5:45 zu sehen; etwa bei 9:20 läuft ein streunender Hund über den Steg:
Agbogbloshie ist ein Vorort von Accra in Ghana und Ziel von legalem und illegalem Elektronikschrott aus den Industrienationen. Millionen Tonnen davon werden jedes Jahr in Agbogbloshie verwertet. Ein Stimmungsbild von Chris Caliman.
Musik: Gustavo Santaolalla, “Can Light Be Found in the Darkness?”.
“This short Mood-Documentary is recutted from the material of the german Documentary “Die Kinder der Toxic City” which i shot this year as a second dop with Jürgen Steiger as the first dop with Christian Bock - director - in Ghana.”
Sam Syrop erzählt in dieser kleinen Dokumentation von Johnny Votta, den New Yorker den Timekeeper nennen. Jeden Tag um exakt 14 Uhr beginnt er an immer der selben Kreuzung vehement, die Zeit auszurufen und Fußgänger und den Verkehr zu regeln. Niemand bezahlt Johnny für seine Arbeit, die meisten Leute schenken ihm nicht einmal ihre Aufmerksamkeit. Er ist einer der vielen seltsamen und rätselhaften Menschen, die New York zu bieten hat:
“Piano Pat is one of those living legends. She’s been playing the same venue, the Sip ‘N Dip Lounge, in Great Falls, Montana since 1963. She’s one of those characters you don’t see everyday.”
By choosing a studio that measures just 12 feet by 7 feet, Felice Cohen can afford to live in Manhattan’s Upper West Side where apartments rent for an average of $3,600 per month. She pays just over $700 for her 90-square-foot microstudio. After a bit of adjustment she now loves living smaller, simpler and cozier.
Noam Galai’s photography was stolen hundreds of times for years without his knowledge. This is his story. | Learn more about the story and connect with Noam at → thestolenscream.com
“Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of the war in Iraq and he’s done extended stints in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, South Africa, Mexico and Nicaragua and elsewhere in the last 20 years. … His latest assignment - a six-week trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya.”
Orson Welles fünfteilige, etwas wunderliche Umsetzung von Alvin Tofflers Bestseller “Future Shock” von 1970 (”a book that has the distinction of being available at every single yard sale in the English-speaking world”).
In 1970, sociologist and futurist Alvin Toffler, the Ray Kurzweil of his day, wrote a book entitled “Future Shock”, which proposed a certain distressing psychological state , induced by change so rapid the human mind can’t digest it, and introduced the notion of “information overload” for the first time. In 1972, the book, already a bestseller, was adapted into a little-known documentary of the same name, narrated by Orson Welles. Exploring the shift from industrial society to what Toffler calls “super-industrial society,” the film tackles notions of consumerism and information overload — think BBC’s “The Century of the Self” meets Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows“.
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