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Loyalkaspar: Amnesty International ‘Shine a light’

Great new project from NY/LA based Loyalkaspar: Amnesty International ‘Shine a light’ — A short film celebrating 50 years of Amnesty International Shining a Light on human rights issues through the power of letter writing. Created pro-bono by the Betterment Bureau, a department of Loyalkaspar inc.

Amnesty’s request was for us to help them by creating the opening film for their 50th anniversary conference, and it was precisely the kind of thing the Bureau has been yearning to do. But we knew that pulling off a 3:00 mixed-media film in only our free time wouldn’t be easy. And it wasn’t. Five months of working evenings, weekends and the occasional weekday (graciously donated by Loyalkaspar) pushed the Bureau to its limits and brought out its best.

Ventilate Facebook migration

Our ventilate facebook group is being migrated into a facebook page. Please give us a “like” in order to keep up with our feature updates as well as blog posts on facebook. Feel free to post your own urls/news/comments on this page as well.

Robert Rugan: Interview

<-- New Interview in our feature section. I had the chance to chat with director Robert Rugan about his upcoming film Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede.

“Believer” by Jen Stark / Dan Deacon

Yet another crazy papercraft video for Dan Deacon appears, with artist Jen Stark creating amazing paper swirls and vortexes to Mr. Deacon‘s hypnotic track.

RESONANCE TEASER 2

Premiering OFFF Barcelona, June 2011

SEE || Displace Studios | Esteban Diacono | Heerko Groefsema | Jean-Paul Frenay | Jr.canest | KORB | Kultnation | Mate Steinforth | Matthias Müller | Momentary People | MRK | Murat Pak | Onur Senturk | Physalia studio | Polynoid | SR Partners | Thiago Maia | Tom Waterhouse | Tronic Studio | Spatial Harmonics Group

HEAR || Audionerve | Combustion | CypherAudio | David Kamp | Echolab | Hecq | Michael Fakesch | Mutant Jukebox | Radium Audio | Studio Takt | World Gang

“Oomph” – Audi A1

Bartle Bogle Hegarty Director Sam Brown & The Mill present a beautifully executed, music driven spot for the Audi A1. The track is by Boreta from The Glitch Mob called Lobegrinder on Alphapup Records.

Canada & Battles !

Canada are back with a new video for Battles!

JAPAN HELP PSA

Self-initiated PSA for Japanese Relief Aid.

Sometimes we forget that just because an event like this isn’t on the front page anymore, the struggle to save and rebuilt lives has passed. IAMSTATIC wanted to create something that can act as a reminder that this disaster is still happening and not a memory.

Alfred Imageworks

Short channel ID by Alfred ImageWorks for MBC.

New Shake it photo

Now you can finally “shake it like a Polaroid picture” with the latest update for SHAKEITPHOTO made by Nick Campbell.

Side note: you can follow me on twitter now /// @amador_v #shamelesspromotion

Moby, Vimeo + Saatchi&Saatchi: Hello, Future.

I wish I had of found this earlier! Quite impressive for a competition, to say the least. Make a music video with one of 3 Moby tracks available to download on the Vimeo competition page. The winner will be announced and their video screened at this year’s New Directors’ Showcase in Cannes, as well as on the Vimeo site. They will also be offered the chance to work on a project in one of Saatchi & Saatchi‘s key offices around the Saatchi & Saatchi Global Network.

This year, as part of The Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Saatchi & Saatchi partners with Vimeo and Moby to discover
yet another unique filmmaking talent, with a Music Video Challenge.

The brief is simple: interpret and bring to life the idea of ‘Hello, Future’ in the form of a fantastic music video for one of Moby’s tracks from his new album, ‘Destroyed’.
Historically, many featured directors in the Showcase have gone on to seriously successful careers: Tarsem, Michel Gondry, Mark Romanek, Spike Jonze, Ivan Zacharias, Kinka Usher, Danny Kleinman and Jonathan Glazer included.

No pressure.

Claudio Salas

Claudio Salas flexes his animation muscle with his new reel.

Radical Friend

Two of my favourite artists who spoke at F5 this year were Radical Friend a collaborative directing duo consisting of of LA based directors Kirby Mcclure and Julia Grigorian. Their video for Yeasayer’s Ambling Alp is a NSFW post trippy classic and their interactive work is constantly pushing what can be done with current technology. I am really looking forward to the film they are currently working on. Video links and interview here.

Thom Yorke: Live DJ Set @ Low End Theory LA

Last March 9th, Theo Jemison, Grace Oh, Arthur S. Mor and Alter filmed Thom Yorke‘s live DJ Set at Low End Theory in L.A … mixing Burial and Madvillain.

NY Adorned “Tradition”

Evan Dennis directed this beautiful short for New York Adorned and it’s just the thing to get me in the mood for my trip to New York this week…the Grails soundtrack is also a perfect compliment to the B&W imagery.

ventilate.ca ~ Poster Series 06

sixth poster series! This time themed Audio Inspirations. Each particpant was free to visually interpret any musical/audible experience that greatly affected their lives or influenced a sense of visual inspiration. We would like to thank all contributors for participating and for sharing their time, work, and inspiration:Hellohikimori, Ron & Megan Gervais, Eloy Krioka & Blas Lamagni, Yoram Benz, Michael Brown.

Each poster is ready for print at 300dpi and is available as a free download. Hope you enjoy!