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ManvsMachine / More4 Idents

After winning a competitive pitch, Channel 4 commissioned ManvsMachine to create a new brand identity and on-air look for More4. The re-brand is centred round a bold, flexible logo that morphs through a series of flips, folds and reveals. Live-action idents see the brand break out into the real world in the form of mechanical ‘flippers’. The installations inhabit environments from a domestic staircase to an abandoned fishing boat in Dungeness. To achieve this ManvsMachine teamed up with installation design pioneers, Jason Bruges Studio, to help design and build a flexible system consisting of over 400 individual flipper units. More here.

Ruairi Robinson : Tiff/Cadillac spots

Ruairi Robinson, a director to watch out for.
An exercise in mood setting.

Leila & Damien de Blinkk | HTC Sensation

Leila and Damien de Blinkk direct this really creative and well executed spot for HTC Sensation.

Sherpas Cinema: JP Auclair Street Segment

JP Auclair Street Segment from All.I.Can; a stunning exploratory essay that compares the challenges of big mountain skiing to the challenges of global climate change. Shot on 6 continents over 2 years, the world’s best skiers deliver inspirational performances while ground-breaking cinematography expands our vision of the natural world.

Crailtap: Girl & Chocolate Trailer

Crailtap; Home of Girl Skateboards, Chocolate Skateboards, Fourstar Clothing, Royal Trucks, and Lakai Footwear … recently launched this Girl & Chocolate Trailer for the upcoming 2012 film.

Darren Aronofsky: The Meth Project

Darren Aronofsky directed these four spots for The Meth Project‘s campaign What is Meth?

Watch all four spots:
Deep End, ER, Losing Control and Desperate.

Awakening

Nice little passion project directed Kacper Skowron. Titles by Aaron Kemnitzer.

God’s Eye View

This is a montage of straight-down shots used in various films. This type of shot is commonly referred to as a “God’s Eye View” angle. The camera lens is perpendicular to the subject without any POV reference, which gives the viewer an omniscient viewpoint of the character and the surrounding space.

The video is cut to the Yeah Yeah Yeah‘s “Down Boy” from the “Is Is” album.

Sherpas Cinema: Kona Enduro

Whistler, B.C based Sherpas Cinema shot some great nature and sports video with fantastic cinematography. Their Kona Enduro Commercial is a good example. Make sure to check out Chimaera as well; Chimæra is a utopia. A dream or fantasy. Mythologically, it references a fusion of forms that is the personification of winter. By slowing down our perception of reality we get a unique look at a skier’s life.

Diablo III Black Soulstone Cinematic

You don’t have to be D&D nerd to appreciate this amazing Cinematic for Diablo III Black Soulstone. Made by Blizzard Studios.

MPC: Film Reel Autumn 2011

Absolutely gorgeous Film Reel from Moving Picture Company, now based in London, Los Angeles, Vancouver and India. “MPC leads the world in post production and visual effects for the Feature Film, Advertising, Digital and Television industries.”

Spy Films, Digital Domain, Grey: Sony

Sony approached Grey London with the task of showcasing Sony product’s 3D capabilities. The brief called for something beyond mere visual spectacle, something that would evoke profound emotion through projection of a storyline. Directed by Arev Manoukian, with production by Spy Films and post production by Digital Domain, Two Worlds brings forth romance with narration of a Leonard Cohen poem.

Watch Stereo 3D verison || Watch making-of

Tell No One x 2

U.K based Tell No One, a writer/director duo, recently collaboarted with SHOWstudio producing Dynamic Blooms; a fashion film to counterpart Nick Knight‘s photography for AnOther magazine‘s Spring/Summer 2011 issue.

Tell No One‘s work has been exhibited and screened in institutions big and small, around the world, from the Guggenheim Museum, New York to the British Film Institute, London. Check out Metanoia – some of TNO’s Lo Fi video experiments

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Filipe Carvalho: The Things We Own

Lisbon based designer/director Filipe Carvalho‘s latest short film: The Things We Own;

Mark, a 35 year old man, was raised by his grandfather, a fisherman in the Azores island.
Both graceful and caring, his grandfather was a also a hardboiled and stubborn man, who only knew the ways of the sea and the island’s hard life.
Mark knew there was more to life than being surrounded with water – and left, never saying goodbye.
The old man died never knowing why he left.
Mark now returns to tell him, even if he can’t hear it.

Betty Wants In: Experience Zero Gravity

Betty Wants In, a Melbourne design studio creating video and motion graphics –> recently directed the subsequent second chapter; Experience Zero Gravity, following up their first chapter Experience Human Flight … both for Infinity List ~ a central platform to find the best and most cinematic sports video.

Alex Lee: Tokyo Slo-mode (Flying Lotus ft. Thom Yorke)

Alex Lee; just a kid in Brooklyn with a camera and motivation. Excursions through Tokyo in slo-mode. Audio: Flying Lotus ft. Thom Yorke ~ And the World Laughs With You.