Saturday Night Live: Grouch
SNL and guest host David Harbour (Stranger Things) scored a direct satirical hit on Joker‘s gritty reconsideration of the comic-book antihero with this faux trailer for a similarly grim/dark...
View ArticleAdorama: Beyond the Sound
A new nine-episode YouTube series from New York-based retailer Adorama takes a behind-the-scenes look at the technical aspects of music video production, with each episode considering a different...
View ArticleThe Secret of Sriracha
CNN’s Great Big Story tackles the history of sriracha — and Huy Fong Foods founder David Tran, who sought to recapture the flavor of his Vietnamese home — with this pithy docu-short that promises, “the...
View ArticleNicolas Godin: The Border
For this track by Air founder Nicolas Godin, director and animator Alden Volney (with production company Riff Raff Films) sends a solitary figure floating through the soft light of crumbling cityscapes...
View ArticleSpace Is Hard
Check out NASA’s new spacesuit designs in this short film promoting the new Artemis moon program. NASA is building rocket core stages to support as many as 10 Artemis missions, with the goal of landing...
View ArticleLakou Mizik + 79rs Gang feat. Régine Chassagne & Pres. Hall Jazz Band – Iko...
Arcade Fire’s Win Butler (aka DJ Windows 98) and Régine Chassagne are the famous faces alongside Preservation Hall Jazz Band who founded Krewe du Kanaval, a nonprofit dedicated to helping the people of...
View ArticleTrailer: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
C-3PO is arguably the star of the new trailer for Episode IX, in which director J.J. Abrams aims to bring 42 years of Star Wars to something like a satisfying climax. At 155 minutes, it will be the...
View ArticleSelena Gomez: Lose You to Love Me
The latest Selena Gomez music video, a stripped-down, black-and-white affair that has her singing directly to camera, is the latest high-profile project to be shot entirely on the new iPhone 11 Pro....
View ArticleSynthesis and Sound Design by Richard Devine
Creative studio Device and animator Erik Righetti made these sounds and visuals to accompany an extract from electronic musician and sound designer Richard Devine’s presentation at this year’s Sónar...
View ArticleNatural History Musem
Animator Kirsten Lepore imagines the far, far future of human consciousness in this stop-motion short that builds to … well, an unexpected epiphany. Credits: “Natural History Museum” is a short film...
View ArticleSting Theory: Monday
Why did Sting hate autumn? Blink Productions’ development studio Blink Industries created this short with director/animator Dan Britt, writer Katy Wix and musician Dan Michaelson. Credits: Written and...
View ArticleSeeing Through the Sea
Vision engineer and oceanographer Derya Akkaynak says she has an algorithm that removes the water from underwater photographs by adjusting the pixels to account for the behavior of light scattered...
View ArticleStar Wars: Breaking Down the New Han/Greedo Scene on Disney+
MACLUNKEY! There were a few irregularities when Disney+ launched earlier this week, notably the streaming service’s dubious presentation of The Simpsons, one of the most popular television programs of...
View ArticleDJ Shadow: Rocket Fuel (feat. De La Soul)
It’s just another brawl between astronauts on the lunar surface until the big reveal at about 1:20 into this new music video, a collaboration between master turntablist DJ Shadow, Daisy Age rappers De...
View ArticleMovie Trailer Tropes
With help from Mark Wollen & Associates Creative Director Jessica Fox, Vanity Fair explains five different tricks and tropes that are widely used to put the sizzle in movie trailers. The post Movie...
View ArticleCoffee Around the World
Yawning in the mid-afternoon? Might be time to think about another cup of coffee. Or maybe you could get a bit of a pick-up from Great Big Story’s six-minute look at how different kinds of coffee are...
View ArticleHaim: Hallelujah
Director Paul Thomas Anderson made it a trilogy this week, turning in the third of his elegantly simple videos for songs from the Haim sisters’ new album. This one was shot on location last month at...
View ArticleObsession: Joywave (Director’s Cut)
How did directors Laura Gorun, Cooper Roussel and Dimitri Basil make the dozens of fictional movies they imagined from scratch look like actual movies from the 1960s and 1970s? For starters, they had...
View ArticleBye-Bye Jai Alai
Do you know what jai alai is? Heck, can you even pronounce it? If so, you may be in the minority. This new piece from Great Big Story brings in pro players Benny Bueno and Leon Shepard to discuss the...
View ArticleThe Heartbeats of Memory
“Every time you face your memories, you feel the heartbeat of the past, the vertigo of longing, and the fear that your memory no longer resembles what once really was.” Director Nono shot this short...
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