Brian Vowles’ “Robot Attack” (2018) demonstrated that visual effects can play a significant role in mobile moviemaking. Now, with “Gary,” the Canadian animator takes mobile VFX to a higher level both technically and narratively. What makes this horror comedy work so well is the total integration of story and visuals. And we should not overlook…
read more →There’s nothing cutting edge about séance films. One of the earliest—”House of Mystery”—was released in 1934. Found footage movies also don’t qualify as novelties. Long before “The Blair Witch Project” (1999) there was “Cannibal Holocaust” (1980). But when UK director Rob Savage made “Host” by combining those two shopworn genres into a 57-minute Zoom horror…
read more →It’s not easy to get people to agree on anything. But there does seem to be consensus that we’re living in strange times. Which makes the strange and wonderful “Home/Body” a perfect viewing choice. Created for the Roger Corman Quarantine Film Festival, this two-minute movie was directed by Dylan Hillerman and produced by Julia Reodica. The…
read more →Most great films have one thing in common: they’re experiments that push the limits. There’s the shower scene in “Psycho.” There’s the outrageously mismatched leads in “King Kong.” And the dead narrator in “Sunset Boulevard.” For a current example, consider “Locked Away” directed by Chicago filmmaker David Schmidt. Here the challenge was making a slick-looking movie…
read more →To celebrate the art of the close-up, MobileMovieMaking ran an Instagram competition. The challenge was to post a video that included at least one knockout close-up. Coming from eight countries, entries represented a wide variety of genres including documentary, music video, travelogue, and fashion. The winning video was “Vacant,” a horror trailer directed by Oliver…
read more →Smartphones are becoming increasingly competitive with traditional cameras. But as we see in Narelle Nash’s latest film “# Selfie,” sometimes a phone is the only way to go. The Australian actor/director takes us behind the scenes in an interview that follows the movie. Interview with Narelle Nash MMM: Could you share your story about becoming a…
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