Revivals, Views From The Avant-Garde, Convergence, Applied Science, Motion Portraits took place at the New York Film Festival. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Breaking off from the New York Film Festival Main Slate, here are some of the highlights. In the Applied Science programme at the press conference for Teller's Tim's Vermeer, David Hockney, Johannes Vermeer, and Jimi Hendrix were intertwined by Teller's partner Penn Jillette. This year's Convergence focused on the "intersection of technology and storytelling" and opened with a Keystone Presentation of Investigate North's The Cloud Chamber Mystery, co-produced by Lars von Trier's Breaking The Waves producer Vibeke Windeløv, whom I met at the New York Film Festival in 2003 where she presented Dogville with Nicole Kidman. In the Revivals, Arthur Ripley's restored The Chase starring Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan and Peter Lorre would be a high-water mark for any festival, at any time. In New York,...
- 10/15/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
What exactly is "Cloud Chamber?" Its creators describe it as a collaborative experience and a premium online mystery that is part alternate reality game, part film, part social network. Players are asked to work together via a single web portal to uncover the story of a young scientist who risked her sanity and betrayed her father in order to "save humanity from its most dangerous enemy: itself." Using "found footage" across a variety of media, players navigate, collaborate and interact in order to discover the truth. That sounds intriguing, but doesn't exactly answer the question of what it is. Christian Fonnesbech and Frederik Ovlisen presented clips from "Cloud Chamber" last week as part of the New York Film Festival's Convergence section and described "Cloud Chamber" as "fiction for the Facebook generation - part social filmed mystery and part game." The filmed elements feature Gethin Anthony ("Game of Thrones"), Jesper Christensen ("Melancholia,...
- 10/4/2013
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
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