Film Category

Having just hit the festival circuits in Europe and the US, Never Let Me Go is slowly garnering attention as one of the big hitters for next year’s Academy Awards. Based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s beautiful 2005 novel about the lives of three young things leaving their sheltered life at the Hailsham school and moving into the big wide world that they know nothing about.

All too often lumped in with their crass, unimaginative and less-talented counterparts, the Hilltop Hoods are constantly avoiding clichés and expectations frequently assigned to those in the Aus Hip Hop community. From their groundbreaking 2007 collaboration with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (which resulted in the remix LP “The Hard Road Restrung” to their new project, the Hoods are always ready to surprise and impress.

ATTN, Y’ALL: This is Lakairomania – one of the entries for Transworld Skateboarding’s 2010 Skate & Create competition. It is possibly the greatest skateboarding video ever made, and it was directed by Ty Evans, who explains his inspiration for the film in possibly the coolest sentence ever uttered by a human being in planet earth’s history:

“I had just filmed Neckface throw a Molotov cocktail against a wall at night and loved how it looked.”

Andy Kennedy’s claymation ‘Accumulonimbus’ is gold. Monochromatic and all contained within a circle,it’s playful and just generally pretty damn cool. With these man made objects disintegrating, multiplying and spinning around the screen you can’t help but be mesmerised.

In the spirit of Harry Hanrahan’s movie mash-ups, a YouTube user who calls himself Mart138 has compiled this fan little video featuring some of the most memorable dance sequences ever captured on film.

David Choe was recently commissioned to do a series of artworks with would-be king of the badasses, Danny Trejo. The pieces were in celebration of Trejo’s new film, Machete, which is based on one of the fake trailers in the original Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarnitino collaboration, Grindhouse.

‘Working Class’ is a documentary that is based around Charles Dicken’s novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’. It follows two American artists Mike Giant and Mike Maxwell from San Francisco and San Diego respectively, as they discuss the themes of Religion, Country, History, War, The Economy and Art which are as relevant today as they were when Dickens wrote the book back in 1859. Taking a leaf out of Julien Temple’s book (Director of ‘Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten’) Jeffrey Durkin approaches the documentary with a less than serious approach making for far more intriguing and revealing discussions between both of the artists.

You know we love Sofia Coppola right? With the release of her fourth feature film Somewhere slated for a Christmas release in the States, the hype is growing by the day, with news like this being devoured in an instant.

Sometimes you see a video that stands alone without any explanation, commentary or analysis. This sequence was shot over three days in Joshua Tree National Park a couple of weeks ago during the Perseid Meteor Shower, and is one such video.

In May of 2003, Aron Ralston, an avid hiker and thrill seeker, went hiking in the Blue John Canyon in Utah. One thing led to another and he found himself with his arm trapped under a boulder, completely unable to move. He hadn’t told anyone that he would be there, so he knew that no one would be looking for him. After 5 days, delirious with dehydration and hunger, Ralston made the tough call to free himself by breaking and cutting off his own arm.