I Met The Walrus

drtoast — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:55:27 +0000

“In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message.” Watch on YouTube

72 Hours in 72 Minutes

drtoast — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:44:24 +0000

Director R. Luke Dubois spent three days filming actress Lian Amaris Sifuentes moving in extreme slow motion on a set in the street near New York’s Union Square, made to look like an old-fashioned boudoir. Her performance, in which she goes through the ritual of preparing for a date, will be digitally sped up by sixty times and shown as a feature-length film, such that the actress appears to move at a regular pace while city life races by in the background. New digital processing techniques are used which result in smooth motion, unlike the normal fast-forward that we are used to. Scheduled for exhibition in galleries and on HD-DVD in 2008.

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I Met The Walrus

72 Hours in 72 Minutes