Corfe Castle documentary A short documentary I directed about Corfe Castle I made as part of my BA (Hons) Television Production degree at Bournemouth University. The brief was we had to make a 2 minute film on anything we like (it could be a drama or doc or pop video etc). Role: Director Additional roles: additional camera, editor Music courtesy of Imogen Heap - 'Canvas' - instrumental version (taken from the album 'Ellipse' - bonus track version) available from: www.amazon.co.uk

Pitchfork has announce today that the documentary about the legendary garage punk icon that passed away at the age 29 on 13 January 2010 will be screened in cinemas cross the US ... hopefully will come to Europe ... more info here Watch | Jay Reatard - Better Than Something [ Teaser ]

"Chicago Juke music has roots that run deep. The film chronicles the birth and evolution of a genre over 25 years." A nice documentary by Sonali Aggarval about juke and ghetto house / tek in Chicago. Lot of familiar names and faces and nice insight of the development of ghetto music styles. Recommended watching if you got an hour to spare which you should. Juke It Like A Pigeon.
"'We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists" is a documentary that takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores the historical roots of early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater and then follows Anonymous from 4chan to a full-blown movement with a global reach, one of the most transformative of our time."

" Last Shop Standing is a collaboration between award wining feature film company Blue Hippo Media and Proper Music Publishing Ltd. Based on the successful book by the same name, Last Shop Standing will be a 60-minute documentary to be released on Record Store Day in April 2012. It will be a celebration of the unique spirit of comradeship and entrepreneurial ingenuity that has enabled so many shops to keep operating successfully against the backdrop [...]

photo by Alexander Richter Action Bronson was in Chicago a couple months ago for Digital Freshness and a Closed Session. He posted up at SoundScape and went to work, got in a zone, and recorded multiple songs with producer Thelonious Martin. "Dear Heather" was the last song Bronson recorded that night, and features Rockie Fresh, who came through SoundScape as well to collaborate. We later added Macie Stewart of Kids These Days to provide a hook, and complete the song. While we'll have a different song from Action going on Closed Sessions Vol. [...]
[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Our good homie Waajeed recently relaunched his Bling47.com site & it's better, faster, stronger, fresher! We encourage all of you to add it to your bookmarks or homepage it if you havn't already! Bling47 Breaks takes you on a journey into samples used by J Dilla . This original series is directed, filmed and edited by Waajeed himself. The 3 rd episode [...]

- Frrequenze documentary - Seguendo lo stesso format di Dogtown & Z-Boys presentato nel 2001, Stacy Peralta torna in veste di regista per presentare il suo documentario sulla Bones Brigade: il team che dagli anni 80 alla fine degli anni 90 ha dato casa a gente tipo Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Rodney Mullen, Ray Barbee, Tommy Guerrero, Steve Rocco, Guy Mariano, Mike McGill, Alan Gelfand, Bucky Lasek e lo stesso Tony Hawk giusto per citarne alcuni. Per i profani o le signorine stiamo parlando di skateboard: tavola a [...]

Hits theaters April 20th.

The "Classic" New York Graffiti Book now hitting the Big Screen. Coming Spring 2012 Classic Hits: New York's Pioneering Subway Graffiti Writers is a book by Alan Fleisher and Paul Iovino, with an introduction by Phase 2 that covers over 40 years of graffiti in the Big Apple. In Classic Hits, the pioneers talk about how they got started and where graffiti took them. Together, the essays offer an invaluable picture of graff in the early, playful years. Featured artists in the groundbreaking book include Ale One, All Jive 161, Blade, Cay 161, Checker 170, Clyde, Death, Fdt [...]
Pay Attention... It's Sunday Throw Back!
Born Marc Feld in 1947, this hour long BBC documentary traces Marc Bolan's life and career from his London mod beginnings to his death in 1977, two weeks shy of his 30th birthday. Have a watch, then go listen to Unicorn.
Sundance Film Festival 2012, which officially ended 4 days ago, was rife with the expected daily deal announcements rumored to be in the seven figures. The usual suspects, backed by either major Hollywood studios or corporations - Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, IFC Films, etc. - signed contracts and offered ...
I went into Cave of Forgotten Dreams without knowing anything about it and enjoyed it so much I hesitate to say anything here aside from it's one of the most extraordinary and beautiful films I've ever seen. Werner Herzog's documentary literally explores the Chauvet Cave in Southern France, which holds the most ancient cave paintings [...]
The Mumbai International Film Festival will be held at the NCPA from Feb 3 to Feb 8. The festival will have simultaneous screenings of films at the Godrej Theatre and the Tata Theatre. The MIFF is one of the few festivals conducted by filmmakers and is only held once every two years. The festival will also feature various master classes and seminars with filmmakers and festival jury members, including classes and workshops on subjects such as script and commentary writing and how to use the HD-SLR camera into a filmmaking tool. The workshops will be held at the Experimental Theatre [...]

Director Scout Shannon and producer Johanna Goldstein have been traveling the country documenting some of the best poster artists in the business for their film - Just Like Being There. In the gig poster community, artists such as Daniel Danger and Jay Ryan prove that creating this artwork is a way of life, more than just a career. These artists are at the forefront of an expansion of the gig poster genre. MONDO's reinvigoration of "the film poster as an art form," and Gallery 19882s theme based exhibits are only two ways in which this artwork is reaching [...]

So when I started this documentary project on the Sound Station last summer in 2011 it was really to celebrate something that was pretty unique to my dear old town of Westfield, New Jersey. The hope is that this story turns into a comeback for a little cultural mecca that was just starting to gets it's legs back. Embraced by the local NJ music scene like The Court Tavern was this was just another unexpected blow. The record store was going through a resurgence finding their audience on facebook and throwing free shows they were able [...]