“Like Us” combines documentary and fictive techniques to illuminate the core values of human-canine friendship. Based in Los Angeles, Ian Leer shot the footage over many years, and then shaped it into a memorable movie. He talks about the process in an interview below. Interview with Ian Leer MMM: What made you want to be…
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 →A key part of Apple’s marketing scheme is to invite celebrated filmmakers to shoot movies using the iPhone. Recently, the company gave an iPhone 11 Pro to Rian Johnson, the director of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” The result is “Paris 9/19.” This is not a memorable example of the travelogue genre. At first glance,…
read more →At Boston’s 48 Hour. Film Project (2019), Kevin Issa’s “The Other Side” won the Best Film Award. But that was just the beginning. It also took the top prizes for directing, cinematography, actor, supporting actress, sound, editing, special effects, and screenplay.When a movie sweeps all the top prizes, it’s worth more than a look. This…
read more →Since the 1970s, the phrase “garage band” has referred to music groups that developed their skills in their family garages. The production of the music video “La Nostra Intersezione” (“Our Intersection”) introduces a new meaning to the term. The co-directors Alessandro Zanuttigh and Filippo Di Primio turned an actual farmer’s garage into an elegant set.…
read more →Apple’s App Store offers more than four million apps. Most of them fit in the “lifestyle apps” category, promising to make our lives better, easier, smarter, or just more fun. In the Socratic tradition of posing obvious but profound questions, Oliver Richard’s “Thirsty?” invites us to step back and ask: “Are we better off for…
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