Snag Films

Hopefully there’s a business model here.
Snag Films is the just-launched site for (free) web-distribution of documentaries via web widgets. Founded by Ted Leonsis, Ex-AOL exec and Chairman of web-widget technology company Clearspring, it’s been dubbed “Hulu for documentaries.”
More from Variety:

IndieWire will supply SnagFilms with archival content, news, analysis, blogs and film reviews. IndieWire will also [...]

Filed under: Distribution, Film+Video, Ideas, documentary

YouTube Adds Indie Film Screening

YouTube has opened up a channel/section/whatever for long-form indie films, The YouTube Screen Room.
Check out Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody? written by Miranda July and directed by Miguel Arteta, from the Wholphin DVD series.
The YouTube Screening Room is a platform for top films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve. [...]

Filed under: DIY, Distribution, Film+Video, documentary

Mission of Burma: Mastering the Vinyl

Very cool doc.

On Novevember 27th, 2007 we visited Sterling Sound in New York City to document first-hand the all-analog mastering process. The process by which Mission of Burma’s landmark recordings from the early 1980’s were re-mastered. The process is old-fashioned. The gear is original. The vinyl is live cut.
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Filed under: Music, documentary

Sunday droppin’ links like they hot.

Interactive: Singularity is “the first large-scale online web conference in the world,” from October 24-26th, 2008.
Flixwagon joins Qik as a live-video-blogging-service-via-cellphone.
Film, video, and music: Made in America. Stacy Peralta documents LA gang culture.
Cynical-C blog digs up some hilarious FCC complaints from Government Attic.
Download some Negativland.
Radiologik is a Mac DJ automation app:
Radiologik is a set of [...]

Filed under: Copyright, Film+Video, Network Politics, documentary

Dumped. For your perusal.

Interactive. iPhone/Touch Starbuck’s “Quickorder” application. No waiting. Pocket Guitar for iPhone/Touch. Interactive Architecture. Interactive building façades.

Web Trend Map 2008 Beta.
Film, video, music. The films of Joe Merrell. Good Copy Bad Copy (2007), Copyright+Culture. Hulu Discusses Private Beta, Suggests Public Launch Time Frame. Jem Cohen directs DVD for The Ex. Talking to the Music Industry, a [...]

Filed under: Art, Copyright, Creativity, Film+Video, Ideas, Media Technology, Music, documentary, video

Banksy in NYC

Nice video on Banksy’s first NY show at NewArtTV.

Filed under: Art, documentary, video

Noted. Link dump.

Focus Features has created a pretty cool web site and nascent film community at Film in Focus.
Thunderant is the creation of Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen from SNL, where they’re showcasing their comedic shorts/sketches. Kinda “SNL digital shorts” but hipper and smarter (and funnier, except for the Narnia thing).
Trailer for Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers, [...]

Filed under: Film+Video, Music, documentary

Frederick Wiseman on DVD

The films of master documentarian Frederick Wiseman are now all available on DVD. Wiseman is best-known for Titicut Follies, a bleak, controversial look at a Massachusetts insane asylum.

Filed under: Film+Video, documentary

Online Viewing: Glen E. Friedman and John Maeda

John Maeda on simplicity—
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and—
Glen E. Friedman discusses his work and methodology @ SweetTalk NYC.

Filed under: Ideas, documentary, video

Online Viewing: Steven Pinker—A Brief History of Violence.

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Filed under: Ideas, documentary

Heavy Metal in Baghdad

Karina Longworth reviews Heavy Metal in Baghdad, a documentary about a (only?) Metal band in Iraq. She also talks about the film in an episode of The ReelerTV show.

Filed under: Film+Video, documentary

Downloadables

Tokyo Noise (torrent)
Tokyo Noise is an exciting audiovisual dive into the cacophonic waters of urban Japan. Three Swedish documentary makers drag us into a world characterized by noise in all possible forms, and during the trip a plethora of themes are subjects for speculation: robots, shintoism, love hotels, the ethical guidelines for a photo club [...]

Filed under: Film+Video, Music, documentary

Paul Otlet Invented The Internet in 1934

Clip from a documentary on Paul Otlet, who foresaw what can be described as the modern Internet, in 1934.
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Filed under: Ideas, documentary

Online Viewing: Flying Nun Heavenly Pop Hits

Documentary about New Zealand’s seminal indie label, in 9 parts.
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Flying Nun Heavenly Pop Hits:Part2 Part3 Part4 Part5 Part6 Part7 Part8 Part9

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Online Viewing: 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s

80 Blocks from Tiffany’s (1979)
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Gary Weis (SNL, The Rutles) documents the street gangs and urban/ghetto life of 1970’s NYC. A time capsule of 1970’s New York.

Filed under: Film+Video, documentary