OUR CITY: A Documentary Short Films by Exploredinary
A documentary following LA photographers as they make photos around the city in preparation for the 2nd-annual Film Photographic show ‘OUR CITY’, which was held 7/29/17 in downtown Los Angeles at Contact Photo Lab.
@filmphotographic is an Instagram film community gallery and resource page founded by Jason Lee, who produced this film with Daniel Driensky and Sarah Reyes.
Filmed and Edited by Sarah Reyes and Daniel Driensky
Produced by: Sarah Reyes, Daniel Driensky, and Jason Lee
Executive Producers: Letitia Younger and Dustin Beatty
Original Score: Richard Carpenter and Bobak Lotfipour
With Support of Our/Los Angeles, Film Photographic, Contact Lab, and Ilford Photo
Photographers Featured: Ray Molinar, Stefanie Vinsel, Jason Lee, Matt Draper, Eric Bouvet, Ryan Akerberg, Clarke Tolton, Ty Williams, Alex Schmidt, Chris McElrath from Contact Lab, Armand Kohandani, Matt Burt, Greg Hunt, Amber Chavez, Bryce Laurino, Dan Monick, Mikael Kennedy, Cinthya Guillen
Pull follows one of the top lead climbers as he explores the ever-changing world of climbing. This full-length short lead climbing documentary will make you come along for a mind-bending breakthrough journey of epic portions, several decades or more in the making. The makers of Pull have captured a story about the future of our sport and lead climbing. In many ways, this is a look into the most future imaginable.
“Keep your eyes on the future, because when it’s here you won’t be able to see, it is invisible.” – Lead Climber Jeffrey Paul Snyder
Make Them Believe is a documentary exploring Moscow’s underground wrestling scene through the eyes of one up-and-coming performer. Follow Tim Master’s journey (who plays the heel ‘American Hope’) as he chases his dream of becoming a professional wrestler.
A WWE-obsessed Russian college kid lives out his fantasy of becoming a professional wrestling star far from the glamorous spotlight of American pro wrestling as he competes for the coveted belt in Moscow’s underground ring. #Sports #Documentary Short Films #StaffPicks on Vimeo.
In this unexpectedly relatable film, director Taimi Arvidson tackles the universal struggle of the pursuit of a dream.
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Directed by: Taimi Arvidson
Cinematography by: Nick Midwig
Edited by: Andrew Hassell
Composer: Brendan Canty
Featuring: Timofei Maltese, “American Hope” and Ivan Markov, “Locomotive”
Producers: Taimi Arvidson, Nick Midwig, Zamir Gotta
An independent professional wrestler philosophizes on the craft, narrative, and possible meaning found in what some consider a fake sport.
This film was originally published by The New York Times Op-Docs. The #ShortFilms presented by #NYTimes and also #StaffPicks on #Vimeo. Watch it New #Documentary, #Sports #Drama Short Film on Vimeo and also NYTimes.
Director: Tim Grant
Director of Photography: Bernardo Marentes
Producer: Jon Muedder
Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo
Executive Producer: Lindsay Crouse
Executive Producer: Andrew Blackwell
Editor: Tim Grant
Editor: Bernardo Marentes
Editor: Emilia Fuentes
Associate Producer: Caleb Farmer
Assistant Camera: Josh Swope
Colorist: Ben Joyner
Re-recording Mixer: Gary DeLeone
Mixed at: Westwind Media
Production Company: Caravan
I was first exposed to wrestling by my dad, whose favorite wrestler was Dusty Rhodes. When I was growing up, he’d surprise-attack me, hollering, “I’m the American Dream,” then lift my 7-year-old body into the air, slam me on the couch and go for the pin. I’d escape after the second count and triumphantly rebound to victory, leaving my dad defeated on our green living room carpet as I paraded around the house with my hands in the air.
Fast-forward a few years: My cousins persuaded their mom to let us record our wrestling matches with her Sony Handycam. It was the first video camera I ever used. We had entrance music, costumes, and special moves. A few years later, in my early teens, I’d stay up half the night with friends playing WCW vs. nWo: World Tour for Nintendo 64. I always selected my favorite wrestler, Macho Man Randy Savage. By this time I was becoming aware of professional wrestling’s being “fake.” But Macho Man said every word with such conviction, with a thought process that sounded nearly insane. I wondered: So if wrestling is fake, does Macho Man know?
Things began to change when my family relocated from extremely rural northern Georgia to slightly less rural western North Carolina. My world got bigger. I started listening to more than just Christian music and watching movies outside my family’s approved watch-list and my grandfather’s westerns. I was drifting away from wrestling. Then I saw Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and became an evangelist for the film, offering my critical review to anyone who would listen: “You have to see it. It has everything. Drama. Romance. Revenge. Good versus evil.” The film became my defining interest by my late teens; if you were going to know anything about me, I wanted it to be that I was into films. I had grown out of wrestling, and I was proud of myself for having the maturity to do so. Wrestling was fake and crude, while legitimate cinema was subtle and poetic. I still loved Randy Savage, but in the way, you love a childhood friend you don’t really relate to anymore.
But in the first few minutes after meeting the wrestler Cauliflower Chase Brown, when we happened to share a table with our significant others at a poorly attended dinner party, I realized how wrong I had been about wrestling. “It’s storytelling,” Chase told me. “There’s more to it than people realize.” He drew comparisons to classical Greek theater, Shakespeare and, most notably, philosophy, his area of study at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. He talked about concepts of truth and the factors that make a character good or evil. The role of catharsis and how to understand a crowd. How wrestling, at its best, is the closest form of theater to jazz. I felt appropriately called out for my judgments of wrestling over the years, understanding that I had reserved the power of story to acclaimed films and other “higher forms” of art as approved by cultural authorities. I had become a snob.
With this film, “The Aria of Babyface Cauliflower Brown,” I’m attempting to recreate the feeling and conviction I had while listening to Chase describes the art he loves. In doing so, I’m mixing many forms and layers of art, style, and storytelling with wrestling. Chase’s rhetoric is overlaid with an aria, Desdemona’s prayer from Verdi’s “Otello,” an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Othello.” Peter Paul Rubens’s painting “The Fall of Phaeton,” an interpretation of a Greek myth, is a key visual reference for framing and color. Slow motion is used as a way to help see wrestling with different eyes, placing it closer stylistically to “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” than “Monday Night RAW.” All these choices were made to elevate wrestling, not from what it is but to a form that snobs like me can understand…..Read IT! on NYTimes
Joachim is retiring from base-jumping to become a father for the first time, but first, he will stop at nothing to pull off his very last jump.
The last Base has screened at over 100 festivals and won more than 20 awards. The #ShortFilms #StaffPicks on #Vimeo, #LastBase short in the base of #Adventure, #Drama, #Narrative, their friendship is put to the test.
Joachim is retiring from base-jumping to become a father for the first time. But first, he endeavors one last adventure. Together with best friend Oyvind, he sets out to climb Mt. Katthammeren to do his last jump. When a bad storm approaches their friendship is put to the test. Oyvind wants to turn back, but Joachim will apparently stop at nothing to pull off his very last jump.
Written & Directed by Aslak Danbolt
Screenplay: Aslak Danbolt
Story by: Aslak Danbolt
Producer: Pål Nordås
Cast: Kenneth Åkerland Berg, Edda Trandum Grjotheim, Petter Width Kristiansen, Tov Sletta, Richard Olsen
Selected festivals:
– Tribeca Film Festival 2015
– Chicago International Film Festival 2015
– Slamdance Film Festival 2015
– Leeds International Film Festival 2014
– Montreal World Film Festival 2015
– Vancouver International Film Festival 2015
– Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival 2015 – *Jury Prize*
– Leuven International Short Film Festival 2014
– The Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad 2015
– Trento Film Festival 2016 – *Genziana d`Argento – Best Short Film*
When I was growing up outside Chicago, one of my favorite trips was to the Art Institute of Chicago to see the Thorne Miniature Rooms. I spent hours staring into each remarkably detailed room, imagining I had transported myself to the past and had secretly slipped into the grand entrances, libraries, living rooms, and bedrooms of people’s homes. Each visit left me with a sense of wonder and excitement.
When I came across the beautiful work of Ali Alamedy, the artist featured in this short film, I felt that same sense of awe.
Mr. Alamedy was born in Karbala, Iraq, in 1982, during the Iraq-Iran war. At the time, his father was imprisoned under Saddam Hussein for political reasons, and Mr. Alamedy wasn’t able to meet him until he was 9 years old. His mother taught him to read at a young age and reading quickly became his favorite hobby, as well as a way to escape to calmer and more secure places. Mr. Alamedy credits the novels he read as a primary reason he started building miniatures, “to recreate some of those scenes just as I had imagined them to be in my childhood.”
Eight years ago, Mr. Alamedy built his first miniature — a wooden cottage, inspired by a similar piece he saw at his uncle’s home as a child. He made the cottage from basic materials and weathered it using coffee.
At first, he had no idea what to call the kind of art he was making. In Arabic “miniature” translates to “Muna mn Amat,” a small painting on paper. He searched the Internet for the words “miniature” and “diorama” in English and was surprised to find a substantial community of miniature artists around the world. He began posting his work online and soon had thousands of friends and followers.
As he admits in the film, meticulously making each of the objects in his scenes to be exact reproductions of real objects, at a tiny scale, is tedious. Yet the act of creating is also meditative, a kind of quiet rebellion against the chaos of the world and the uncertainty in his own life.
I hope viewers will be transported into the world that Mr. Alamedy so lovingly and painstakingly creates, and find beauty and solace there.
Originally published in the #NewYorkTimesOp-Docs series.
Ali Alamedy, an Iraqi artist living in Turkey after being forced out of his country, makes incredibly detailed dioramas of places he has read about but has never been.
Director/Producer/Editor: Veena Rao
Featuring: Ali Alamedy
Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo
Coordinating Producer: Lindsday Crouse
Supervising Editor: Andrew Blackwell
Camera: Veena Rao
Composer: Eliot Krimsky
Colorist: Begonia Colomar
Sound Mix: Pete Karam
Archival Stills: Ali Alamedy
Translation: Isra Abdulhadi
Breathe follows Patrick, a bare knuckle fighting Traveller who becomes increasingly concerned with his young son Francie’s femininity.
#WatchNewShortFilms #Breathe directed by James Doherty and Present by FILM London, a #Drama Short Film also won few awards for best film and nominated many official awards for. The Short film also picks in #StaffPick on #Vimeo.
#Rani new #TamilShortFilms, Emotional tale between a father and daughter.
A Short, about father how to work to do for daughter well education and living. And Also daughter Doing well as father want, Emotional tale between a father and daughter.
The Short films, Behind Every Great Daughter!!! There is a Truly Amazing Father Also Too!!
Written and Directed by IRFAN
Music by Jeffrey Jonathan
Editing by Richard, Poovai Suresh, Deepak, Saindhavi, Karthick
MUMBAI!! A city that’s home to 20 million dreams. One of the most prominent cities in the nation, Mumbai carries the essence of a city that lives – A City Of Dreams! Just like every dream, this one requires Knights in Khakee to protect it too.
#WatchNewShortFilm “KARTA TU DHARTA TU” A Tribute to #MumbaiPolice, why carries the essence of a city that lives? The city that’s home to 20 million dreams.
Production – Wild Buffaloes Entertainment
Written, directed & produced by – Divyansh Pandit
Cinematographer – Sarfraz Ali Hasan Khan
Editor/Chief Asst. Director – Shubhankar Jadhav
Creative Producer – Upanshu Singh
Sound Design – Shankar Singh
VFX – Harsh Mishra
Background Score – Semal Nikhil
Song – Semal Nikhil
Singer – Sukhwinder Singh
Lyrics – Abhishek Singh
Cinematographer (Song) – Salman Salar
Assistant Directors – Snehal Garg, Bhushan Shetty & Gaurav Bhan
Assistant Editor – Shivangi Bhatt
Associate DOP – Arvind Chandra
Assistant DOP – Sartaj Khan
Focus Puller – Khwaja Ahmad & Firoz Shah Shaikh
Poetry – Upanshu Singh
Production Manager – Mehmood Majid Khan (Nawaz Khan)
DI – Uday Javkar
Sound Mixing – Kailash Singh
Dubbing Engineer – Saroj Sharma
Pre-mix & mix – Kanishkaa Sound Post
A horrifying lucid dream changes the perspective of a grandmother towards the practice of female circumcision in her family. The Social Awareness #ShortFilms presented by #PocketFilms, Short Films #HISSA (A Part) #WatchNewReleases Short on YouTube Channel PocketFilms.