Although the 1920s were largely dominated by silent movies, it was during that period that we saw the introduction of synchronized sound. Movies were, are and undoubtedly always will be an art form with an universal appeal, their essence being that of entertaining. Thus, during that period, they entertained making their contribution to brightening up the world after the ordeals of the First World War. For...

Corpse Bride Tim Burton’s dead bride carries you through a journey in the World of Darkness, in the romantic tradition of classic movies as “Edward Scissorhands” or “The Nightmare before Christmas”, both Burton’s works as well. The action of this movie takes place in the 19th century in an European village and it follows the story of Victor [voiced by Johnny Depp], a young man destined...

There are two worlds: the first one, the one we live our day to day lives, the one we all know and love or hate, and the second one, the oh so unknown one, parallel with the first one. One is a dream. The other one is Matrix. Neo (Keanu Reeves) tries to find out the truth about that certain world about which he only heard whispers about, the mysterious and filled of unknown things world. But what...

Three Colors: Blue [Trois Couleurs: Bleu] Julie loses daughter and husband, a famous composer, in an accident. After her try of isolating herself from the rest of the world, equivalent to a spiritual suicide, she is “brought” to life again by the people that love her and by the music around which the entire plot of the movie gravitates. “Blue” is the first part of Kieslowski’s...

“Ilana Yahav is a world renowned sand animation artist. Using only her fingers, Ilana draws with sand on a glass table. On this website you can watch her video clips and contact her.” This is how she is described on her site and we believe these words do her a great injustice as she is purely amazing. The forms she creates when the ease that she has in each of her creating gestures are astonishing. ...

This week’s theme for the Film Challenge is “War”. You can direct a scene out of a war of your own making. It can be anything from a war between action figures fighting over the lost treasure of Cortez to the last episode of Star Wars! Best of luck and remember you too can be an artist! For the Film Section of this week’s issue we know what our choices will be from the very...

The theme for the Film Challenge for this week is Sea. Unfortunately, while looking for our choices for this theme all last week, we have came across so many videos of waves that a challenge entry  copying those would not be too well seen. What we ask of you [just like we did last week, just like we will do next week] is creativity. The WoW factor in Film creating. You too can be an artist! As we...

Until this issue’s theme, nature has always been helping you for the Film Challenge and apparently it is still doing this as nature can provide you with some great footage of light to capture. Anything from a sunrise covering the night and everything around in light to the pale moonlight frozen in silence and stillness by the black nights. All you need is a camera and your creative nature. Be...

The theme for the Film Challenge of this week is, of course, “Children”. Your best entry for this would undoubtedly be taping a usual day in the life of your child playing, eating, doing homework, talking, whatever you wish. We all want to have memories of our children growing up and with today’s technology we can capture and keep for always every moment in this process. Share these...

A video experiment that has no words. Despite the actual images moving in front of our eyes that have a certain amusing thing, the  black and white of the entire video gives it a more serious tone. The only sound heard over the entire video’s length is the apple biting. The only other actions depicted are the tender gestures the girl is making the “person” next to her perform. She...