One-minute Movie Celebrates Nature Close up and from Afar

French filmmakers Benjamin Lapierre and Alexandre Gaudou continue to push the boundaries of no-budget iPhone movies. In “Overview,” their push takes us to outer space. This one-minute movie—an entry in the Mobile Film Festival competition—deals with the theme: “Making Peace with Nature.” Appropriately enough, many of the shots were recycled from the team’s earlier movies.…

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Horror Film Exploits Creepy Forest Location

“Back to nature” has a positive connotation. But as Michael Kellermeyer points out in “Frightful Forests,” there’s a dark side to the unbuilt world. Kellermeyer discusses 13 scary stories set in haunted woods.  These include Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Bernard Capes’ “The Thing in the Forest,” and Ambrose Bierce’s “The Boarded Window.”…

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Experimental Film Explores the Intersection of Civilization and Nature

Some genres are easy to define. Sci fi, for example, typically gives us a window on the near or distant future. In a horror picture, there’s almost always some sort of monster. But the experimental movie by its nature more difficult to pin down. Involving trial and error, its raison d’être is to fashion something…

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