Film Category

We’ve explored the film scenes in France and Australia, and now we delve into the underground and independent filmmaker’s in India, who contribute to Bollywood’s massive cultural output each year without a choreographed dance scene in sight.

You get the feeling that NY photographer Jimmy Fontaine still can’t believe he’s made it in the big city, but this video by Drop Culture shows his photographic style and manifestation with his art.

When Bob Dylan wrote the lyrics to his revolutionary catch cry The Times They Are A Changin’, he probably didn’t realise that his words would become the foundation on which one of the world’s biggest technological revolutions would be based. But that’s exactly what happened; thanks to Dylan, Steve Jobs, the wide-eyed young man from California’s technologically rich Silicon Valley, was inspired to become a hippy with a cause.

Wanna see a rustically beautiful one-take film for Kieran Blake’s new tune recorded under a bridge in Montreal? Portable premieres it here.

Filmmaker Clifton Bell directs this nine minute short film for Philadelphina based Hip Hop band The Roots. The film features four tracks from their critically acclaimed new album ‘Undun‘. Previous to the release, the band had already released the four highlights for the LP in short visual snippets. This is The Roots first concept album and it tells the story of fictional character Redford Stevens, a black kid from Philadelphia turned into a drug dealer. According to the band on a recent interview for Billboard, there moral to this story is not about the drugs but about survival instinct when you are facing a difficult circumstance.

Independent director Yaara Sumeruk shares her picks for the year’s most enlightened, inventive and visionary film directors with Portable.

Visible Shape, featuring the poetic prose of Brooklyn-born musician Lou Reed and legendary American composer Philip Glass, provides an intimate look into the form of a satyagraha-style protest in action.

Inspired by the etiquette handbooks of the early 1900’s, Etiquette For The Becoming Lady is a hilarious short film about a mischevious young lady named Miss Fanny and the temptations that threaten to get in her way.

Portable sits down to talk to Guy Franklin about his process of working with Kimbra on her videos for Settle Down, Cameo Lover and Good Intent.

A valuable lesson for camera-toting film makers in 24 seconds of pure anguish.