Best describe as an updated homage to 50′s French cinema, Matthew Lessner’s history with the festival dates back to the showing of his short film By Modern Measure (2008). His second trip came with the experimental, outdoorsy New Frontier programmed feature debut The Woods (2011), which comes with a built-in asterisk of sorts since it was the very first film at Sundance to have used Kickstarter for funding. His third visit Chapel Perilous (2014) claimed the Short Filmmaking Audience Award. Sprinkle some music video directing work with the likes The Dirty Projectors and The Raveonettes and we’ve got a burgeoning filmmaker who works with a biting tongue-in-cheek tonality and a visual range that appears limitless. Recently profiled at the Us in Progress Paris fest, Automatic at Sea proposes a good dose of fantasy with subdued reality (see set pic above).
Gist: On a whim, Eve, a young Swedish traveler (Livia Hiselius...
Gist: On a whim, Eve, a young Swedish traveler (Livia Hiselius...
- 11/11/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Institute announced that 12 short films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, as well as eight classic short films from Institute alumni and earlier Festivals will be available in the You Tube Screening Room. The first launch date is January 6, 2011 and will continue to release through February 3, 2011.
Each YouTube Screening Room series is scheduled to run for a span of six weeks.
”We are thrilled to be able to share a selection of short films free online on the YouTube Screening Room with the broader public,” said Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “The Screening Room will offer just a sample of the diversity and originality of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program, as well as a taste of Institute history.”
The YouTube Screening room (www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom) is a curated wing of YouTube that focuses on independent films.
Short Films from Directors with Feature...
Sundance Institute announced that 12 short films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, as well as eight classic short films from Institute alumni and earlier Festivals will be available in the You Tube Screening Room. The first launch date is January 6, 2011 and will continue to release through February 3, 2011.
Each YouTube Screening Room series is scheduled to run for a span of six weeks.
”We are thrilled to be able to share a selection of short films free online on the YouTube Screening Room with the broader public,” said Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “The Screening Room will offer just a sample of the diversity and originality of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program, as well as a taste of Institute history.”
The YouTube Screening room (www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom) is a curated wing of YouTube that focuses on independent films.
Short Films from Directors with Feature...
- 1/6/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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