WE LOVE SEXY INTERVIEW I: ELANI JACOBS
Elani Jacobs is a photographer from Bloemfontein whose photographs that she uploaded to onesmallseed.net have featured in many Images of the Week selections, and in November, 2012, her album One Last Shoot became Album of the Week on onesmallseed.com. More recently, her eye-catching portraits of women have also been in the spotlight through our media...
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Encounters SA International Documentary Festival 2013
Encounters South African International Documentary Festival will be a prominent not-to-miss event for South African’s this winter, with screenings taking place from June 6-16 in Cape Town and Joburg. 23 films will be featured in what will be the festival’s 15th year of exposing both global and local filmmaking talent. The documentaries delve deep into...
Animalistic Femininity | The Capsule
Set in the shadowy corners of the Cyclades islands, THE CAPSULE is a haunting exploration of femininity, control, instinct, and raw impulse. Commissioned by Dakis Joannou, founder of the DESTE Foundation of Contemporary Art in Greece, the short film was directed under the Gothic guise and whimsical touch of Athina Rachel Tsangari. Toying with the...
Musical Laser Forests, Light Painting, and Quadcopters | Meet Marshmallow Laser Feast
Step into the enchanted world of Marshmallow Laser Feast. The creative studio is a collaborative effort that blurs the boundaries between art and technology. While technology is often viewed as a cold, distant industrial process, Marshmallow Laser Feat redefines this perception with playful, interactive installations that shed new light on sound, space, and movement —...
The Art of Doing | Portrait of Meka
The Art of Doing is an online platform that captures people doing what they love through tracking the movements of artists, craftsmen and creative doers to frame portraits. Their slogan tells you to ‘be inspired’ and make things happen, and their latest upload of Meka – a Canadian illustrator – illustrates the artistic multi-faceted work...
#FEED: Exploring the Physical World Through Online Instruments
Curated by Justin Bolognino and his dynamic online endeavours Learned Evolution and The Meta Agency, #FEED is a concept powered by Twitter that uses the digital environment to celebrate the physical world. It worked as both an event and a tool that narrated the 5-day story of the SXSW 2013 festival. As an event, #FEED...
Press Play VIDEO ESSAY – Pacino: Full Roar
Pacino: Full Roar is a hilarious montage dedicated to one of film’s greats. In much the same way Tumblr users cut clips to create funny gifs — remember the Ari Gold ‘Get the Fuck Out’ gif? — Nelson Carvajal has captured some of Al Pacino’s loudest, most insulting moments and catalogued them into a single...
“HAPPY life”
Ordinary people walk through the delicate beauty of a European winter in Mojebory’s short film, HAPPY life. The Polish director created the clip using Dalai Lama’s voice to emphasise that there is ‘too much stress, too much suspicion, too much ambition’ among the human populace.(Length 06:19)
The Suit Makes a Man
Thousands of migrants come to South Africa looking for a piece of the African Dream. They are drawn by the well-spread knowledge of Johannesburg being the leading financial centre on the continent. Sadly, most of them, once arrived, don’t make a lot of money. But there are a few who do. Rafael, a tailor from...
The Old Samurai
Shot over the course of three days, designer and filmmaker Benjamin Wong tells the story of an old samurai, who is nearing the end of his life but still has passion for battle. The short film is a cinematic adventure that incorporates themes of love, honour, and loss without a single word being spoken. With...
Rolling Safari
Conducted as part of the 18th edition of the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Student Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg have realized a funny short film called ‘Rolling Safari’ featuring obese animals of the savannah. Length 1:44
KATSUYUKI YOSHIDA – THE GINZA COWBOY | “A Capture of Time”
In this episode of Obscuravision they take a look into the mind of Katsuyuki ‘Katsu’ Yoshida, founder of Porter Classic, member of the Yoshida family legacy (Yoshida Kaban/Porter) and celebrated behind-the-scenes pioneer of the Japanese vintage fashion movement over the past four decades. As a by-story of the Obscura Issue #11, Katsu talks in-depth about...
More Than Photography
Brad Evans and Travis Jensen are two talented photographers who decided to portray San Fransisco’s Tenderloin district — an undeserved neighbourhood considered to be ‘rough on the edges’ – by paying it some long due respect. See how their project developed in this short film by Jonas Normann of sidewalktalk.dk. Length 05:57
