My good friend Tony Duggan-Smith built this musical (?) instrument for me, with the intention of using it in horror film score.
It consists of metal rulers which are bowed, a hurdy gurdy like mechanism, a string played with an attached Ebow, a spring reverb (also played with an ebow) some long metal rods, magnets, trash, anything at all to get unnerving sounds.
Automatic Cinema aims at an artistic audience. The software can be used for exhibitions or installations, where a variety of media are served on various screens and channels – syncronized or not. Since all media assets are stored in a database, Automatic Cinema is also useful for documentarists and researchers with a structural approach to their material. And last but not least, Automatic Cinema is open source and can be developed by anybody. Instead of cutting a bunch of videoclips the hard way, Automatic Cinema generates countless versions based upon predefined styles. Probably, you'll end up seeing a movie you've never been thinking of — serendipity in it's best way.
If not discerned in its title, this site assumes a bias towards older, often unpopular, and sometimes unknown films that merit a second look.
Box Office Receipts 1986 — 2008. Here's a look at how movies have fared at the box office, after adjusting for inflation.
Metapropart is a Web 3D project aiming to explore in new ways cinema diegetic content, or in other words, movies universe and fiction. This word comes from Prop Art movement, that recognizes movie props and memorabilia as a form of art and meta, a suffix
Stop the projector! Time for a little analysis.
Expanded Cinema is an online platform for experimental film, early video, and sound-based, durational work.
Social video stream
Not coming to a theater near you
Database of film and cinema
Alternative film review