Skip to Content

‘Plug & Play’ is only 15 minutes–but it’s 15 minutes you’ll never forget

When faced with the prospect of paying money for a product, gamers can be a notoriously choosy and opinionated bunch. The recent hoopla over The Order: 1886 is only the latest piece of an argument that has raged over several generations of consoles, as well as their PC and mobile hybrids. Despite the vehemence and aggression related to this particular question, these long-standing debates seem to really turn on a single idea: how much is a quality experience actually worth? A latecomer to the argument, short-film-turned-short-game, Plug & Play, may find itself very much at the center of this conversation in the months and years to come.

Read More about ‘Plug & Play’ is only 15 minutes–but it’s 15 minutes you’ll never forget

Interview with Filmstock Film Festival’s James Lee

Though the big-name film festivals may have finished for the year–with Sundance rearing its head in only six weeks or so–there are still festivals running around the country. Take, for example, the Filmstock Film Festival, now in its fifth year, and catering specifically to the Four Corners states–Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. The festival …

Read More about Interview with Filmstock Film Festival’s James Lee

Red Dawn (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2011)

Alvorada Vermelha – Red Dawn Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata 28 minutes, 2011 A documentary on a meat market in Macao evokes question of life, death and morality. Opening with a high heeled shoe in foreground in a presentation of the mundane, we are introduced to our world under the …

Read More about Red Dawn (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2011)

RIDM 2012: ‘The Meaning of Robots’

Meaning of Robots Written and directed by Matt Lenski USA, 2011, imdb, RIDM My favourite film of Montreal’s International Documentary Film Festival, RIDM, so far is a poetic four minute film about an obscure New York film miniature builder and animator named Michael Sullivan. Sullivan’s New York city studio apartment looks like the before picture …

Read More about RIDM 2012: ‘The Meaning of Robots’

Animated Warner Bros. Short ‘Coyote Falls,’ and a Live-Action Short ‘Wiley vs. Rhodes’

Here are two more fun videos to take us out for the weekend. The first is Coyote Falls, one of three new CGI Road Runner shorts produced by Warner Bros. which ran in theaters, in 3D, this summer. The second is Wiley vs. Rhodes, a live-action short created by Apache Pictures which is shot on …

Read More about Animated Warner Bros. Short ‘Coyote Falls,’ and a Live-Action Short ‘Wiley vs. Rhodes’