April 26, 2012 | New Film | by Josef Buchanan |

There was once a band named KARP. They quickly dominated the scene in Olympia and then set out for world domination, one song at a time. This documentary tells the story of their legacy from start to finish in great fashion.

April 26, 2012 | New Film | by Matt Wicks |

I’m so happy the Teddy Grays family let Magnum photographer Martin Parr loose with a camera in their 194 year-old sweet factory, otherwise this documentary might never have existed. A beautifully intimate portrait of a family business frozen in time, with characters almost as old as the copper pots, who painstakingly churn out endless pear drops, pineapple chunks, cola pips and minty humbugs in the same way as generations before them. It’s working-class Wonka, and like watching the industrial revolution take place before your very eyes.

April 18, 2012 | New Film | by Denimu |

I’m addicted to TV series’s like Underbelly and Sons of Anarchy, so I had to see this movie about the Stockholm underworld. Jens Lapidus’ first book of his Stockholm Noir Trilogy, Snabba Cash, was made into a Swedish film. But with its success will come a Hollywood version, Easy Money – if you can’t read subtitles. Daniel Espinosa directed it, which led to him getting the Safe House job. Zac Efron is lined up to take the Hollywood lead.

April 12, 2012 | New Film | by Sam Hoh |

Not only does this film show a comprehensive guide to the strict colour palette used at Tom Sach’s studio, it also provides very entertaining thoughts about the various meanings that colour can embody. I particularly enjoyed the segment about red and blue. The relationship between the images, music and words make this film comical and clever.

April 11, 2012 | New Film | by Stuart McBratney |

As a kid, I made my own pinball machine. It almost worked. But 9 year-old Caine Monroy from LA has taken youthful craftsmanship to new heights, constructing an entire arcade from old boxes. All he needed was a customer or two, and thanks to filmmaker Nirvan Mullick, he got ‘em.

March 31, 2012 | New Film | by Diana Zlatanovski |

Oh, Andrew Bird. Just when you think you can’t love him more than you already do, he makes a documentary sharing more of his talent. Or, well, Xan Aranda makes the film, Bird spends a year touring, whistling and doing other awesome Andrew Bird-ly things. Xan is an uber talent in her own right, so you really must go see Fever Year at your local film festival.

New Film / Jean-Luc Godard films re-imagined by AB/CD/CD

March 30, 2012 | New Film | by Davis Silis |

Three classic Jean-Luc Godard films re-imagined by contemporary French directing collective AB/CD/CD for Opening Ceremony, the super-cool NYC boutique. AB/CD/CD fully embrace the lo-fi conventions of earlier filmmakers, using dummies for stunt doubles as actors tumble down stairs and out of windows. Vibrant, stylish, and with classic typography evoking French film heritage. {watch all three videos below] Read more

March 29, 2012 | New Film | by Sabrina Hornung |

The Age of Champions is a documentary that follows the paths of a few seniors training and participating in the senior games. The participants range in age from their early eighties up to a hundred year-old tennis player. The film was incredibly inspiring and it is refreshing to see people with such healthy souls and attitudes.

March 29, 2012 | New Film | by Christopher Stribley |

I’m really looking forward to seeing my friend Deidre Schoo’s documentary on East New York street dance called Flex is Kings. Schoo and Michael Beach Nichols have worked hard, shooting over 300 hours of footage to compile this stunning documentary. Having just won a spot on Indiewire’s Project of the Week, they now have the opportunity to receive a consultation with Sundance, which is an opportunity they certainly deserve.

March 29, 2012 | New Film | by Sabrina Hornung |

Guy Maddin is a Canadian filmmaker who hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His films are highly experimental, dreamlike, and reminiscent of German expressionist films as well as Soviet propaganda films of that era. Read more

March 29, 2012 | New Film | by Sabrina Hornung |

Don Hertzfeld is a talented young animator who graced this year’s Fargo Film Festival. Not only did his 23 minute animated film, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, win him an award for best director, he’s also won awards at festivals in Montreal and Australia. He uses a traditional antique 35mm animation stand (one of the few still in existence), along with digital manipulations and trick photography.

March 29, 2012 | New Film | by Zolton |

I saw this documentary short at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin and was captivated by the simple storyline, so elegantly and beautifully related. The premise is simple: ‘the butchiest prisoners in Scotland cutting the hair of fellow inmates inside some of the toughest jails in the country? Your chance to experience first hand the lead up to the annual prison hairdressing competition in Scotland’s prisons’.

March 29, 2012 | New Film | by Monika Christodoulou |

I met one of the Watergunners a few weeks ago. This is an incredible creative team consisting of four members – cinematographers and graphic designers – who come from Spain and London and create the most simple but also rare thing these days: amazing videos. Read more

March 29, 2012 | New Film | by Lost At E Minor |

This new video by French videographer Clemence Demerliac, on art with a social conscience, features the work of street artist Hugh Leeman’s social projects and advertising for the homeless through his billboard takeovers and not for profit inner city t-shirt project.  Read more

March 27, 2012 | New Film | by Sasha Gransjean |

Sitting in a Los Angeles doughnut shop around 1am, we started forming the ideas that would eventually become the video for Overfeeling of Controls. Between the spawning of an idea and its execution, there were numerous visits to other doughnut shops and botanicas. For a filmaker working on a budget that is non-existant, securing locations is like a scratch and win lottery victory. Read more