SJ Van Breda is celebrated for her beautifully filmed short documentaries about South African artists. Now, with “Something Is Coming,” she puts the spotlight on the Nharo Bushmen of southern Africa, who struggle to maintain their core values in a changing world. SJ van Breda SJ van Breda first trained as a mechanical engineer. After…
read more →Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman observed, “Everything is interesting if you go deeply enough.” As evidence, consider Jon Gill’s “Blackberry & Apple Crumble.” Gill uses a series of dazzling close-ups and POV shots to achieve the kind of depth that Feynman was talking about. The resulting mini-doc isn’t just interesting. It’s delightful. About Jon Gill…
read more →Creating art is often a solitary activity. But it doesn’t have to be. Consider Jon Gill’s “To see what can be seen and how to see it.” In this mini-doc, four men enjoy a London photowalk during the MoJo Fest. Celebrated Irish photographer Brendan Ó Sé leads the way. But clearly all involved teach and…
read more →Telling stories on tapestries is a very old idea. Egyptian examples date back more than 3000 years. By comparison, the eleventh century “Bayeux Tapestry: is practically modern art. Over the centuries, the tapestry medium has dealt with a wide variety of topics including religion (“The Apocalypse Tapestry”), sports (“The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries”), fantasy (“The Unicorn…
read more →The pandemic has inspired scores of movies. One of the wittiest is Jon Gill’s “Working at Home.” This extended selfie provides evidence that a one-person production can be cinematically rich. The two-minute video won the Best Short Film Award at this year’s International Mobile Film Festival. About the Production About “Working at Home,” Jon Gill…
read more →The concept that beauty is subjective dates back to Plato. For the modern wording of that idea we must thank novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. In her 1878 novel “Molly Bawn” Hungerford wrote the famous words: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” That said, we’re confident that “Made in Paris” is objectively one of the…
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