Four centuries ago Shakespeare observed that “All the world’s a stage.” Now, the Los Angeles-based band Somersault Queen updates Shakespeare’s observation. In their new music video “In the Midst of Conversation,” the band treats the world as a stage for its song lyrics. This clever animated music video spotlights words in all sorts of locations…
read more →In 2019, Taiwanese director Liao Ming-Yi’s “Parking” won the Grand Prize in the FiLMiC Pro Mobile Film Festival. That 4-minute drama was about a doctor suffering from OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Now Liao is back with “I Weirdo,” a feature-length love story about two people with OCD. According to Variety, this is “the first Asian fiction feature to…
read more →“Ball” is a fine example of a movie “ripped from today’s headlines.” In six intense minutes, it tells the story of a young Nigerian kid who dreams of playing basketball. Starting out as a total novice, the boy comes to understand the game by studying the moves off Kobe Bryant. Then, when Bryant dies, the…
read more →London-based mobile moviemaker Rob Leach says that one of his big goals is “to make quirky films that people can relate to.” A perfect example is his latest short “Caterpillar,” which (spoiler alert) asks the question: “Is there a way out of having a 9-to-5 job?” In an interview (below), Leach takes us behind the…
read more →Music videos can be all sorts of things including shocking, witty, and perplexing. “Summereyes”—directed by Sigfrido Giammona and Clara Congera—fits into the “drop-dead beautiful” category. While showcasing the music of Retro F, the filmmakers also put Sicily in the spotlight. The video is a production of the CFMClak crew, a creative team born two years ago when…
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…
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