I love when “research” time comes around at the office. It gives me a valid excuse to do what I clandestinely do the rest of the week: Surf the Internet. We’re deep into work on an architectural firm and researching all th [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, June 15th, 2009
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Though a relatively famous short film, I saw C’était un rendez-vous by french director Claude LeLouch for the first time this morning. In short, it’s an 8 minute tour through Paris by way of a camera strapped onto the front of [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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What is DOXA?
DOXA Documentary Film Festival is Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival hosted by The Documentary Media Society in Vancouver each May. DOXA is a non-profit, charitable society devoted to sharing inspiring, innovative, and thought-provoking documentary films from around the world. For example, on April 16th, DOXA is screening Recipes for Disaster, the hilarious and thought-provoking story of a young Anglo-Finnish family as they rid themselves of all oil-based products for a year in an effort to live environmentally sustainable lives.
DOXA's role in the community.
There are numerous worthy charities, but DOXA is specifically doing terrific work in the arts and culture sector, helping expose not only documentary films and filmmakers to the world, exposing important issues and encouraging dialogue, and exposing Vancouver to the world as a significant city with creativity, innovation and high quality storytelling through world-class documentaries.
Beyond showcasing terrific films, DOXA also works hard to get youth involved with two amazing programs, Connexions Youth Forum and Rated Y for Youth. Connexions gives young adults the opportunity to be mentored by seasoned filmmakers and then allows those participants to create their own short documentaries to be screened at the festival—an opportunity I would have died to have when I was their age. And Rated Y for Youth is a DOXA initiative showcasing documentaries suitable for youth aged 12-18 to promote intelligent dialogue and critical media literacy to a new generation, through non-fiction, media arts.
DOXA's plan for the future.
Doxa has made significant structure improvements to create a solid foundation and plan for the future of the festival. The festival is expanding, improving its programing, producing more screenings and events, and is producing two exciting youth initiatives this year—introducing young people to documentary films and directly to the filmmakers and film making process itself. Awesome!
Why would I care?
As a community of passionate, intelligent, "switched on" creative professionals, I image most of you have an appreciation for good filmmaking. And I hope you agree that it's easy to go see a Hollywood movie anytime, but never as enriching or thought-provoking as a compelling documentary. Documentaries are where the truth is told, where learning happens, where movements take flight, and where change happens. I believe you are like-minded in your view of the arts and its impact on culture, and understand the financial need created by this economic climate which includes provincial and federal financial cutbacks.
Please join me in supporting the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, which is meeting real, humble needs right here in our own community. We're proud of what has been accomplished and excited by what it can become with the right kind of support and people behind it. DOXA is a registered charity run by a dedicated group of volunteers. There are numerous ways you can help support the festival along with their youth programming.
Here are the ways you can help:
DOXA Documentary Film Festival Needs Our Help Graphic designers don’t often participate in documentary filmmaking, which is a shame. Just as our craft helps shape culture, documentaries are powerful storytelling vehicles, often reveal [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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I have just discovered that Tim Burton is making a live-action and CGI version of the classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” to be released in 2010. Christopher Lee, Alan Rickman join his usual cast of Johhny Depp and [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, January 19th, 2009
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Our old friend Gary Hustwit, who brought us the feature-length film Helvetica about typography, graphic design and global visual culture, is putting the final touches on his newest documentary project, Objectified—this time a fascinating [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 5th, 2009
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Filminute is billed as The International One-Minute Film Festival and now the 2008 finalists are all online and awaiting your vote! You do the math: 25, one-minute films won’t take that long to watch. Screen them all for the shortest [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, September 15th, 2008
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This came in today via LiquidTreat. It’s a documentary called Died Young, Stayed Pretty which is billed as a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. These artists dig deep into the culture of our times, and pas [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, August 15th, 2008
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Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
The film is still in production and slated for an early 2009 release. If it's as well researched and produced as Helvetica was, it's destined to be another resounding success. I can't wait to see it.
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Let’s face it: Gary Hustuit’s documentary Helvetica was a runaway hit. I certainly didn’t expect so many designers and non-designers alike to get so goofy about a film about a typeface. Building on his success and reputati [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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It was almost a year ago when I posted this cool video from Japan, but it was brought to my attention just yesterday that there is a slightly better rendition of Tetris that also uses people as pixels. I do believe that this series of video [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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With cameras in computers, cell phones and who knows where else, we seem to take for granted that cameras can go anywhere. In the early development of the movie camera, they were much more stable and harder to move around. When this new tec [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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Not sure how this escaped our blog until now. For the last while many of us here have been afflicted with sleep deprivation as a result of having access to complete seasons of the best episodic television has to offer. Case in point: Life o [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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The titles capture the essence of the show by depicting the violence behind a mundane morning routine. The only thing that tops the beautiful visuals, is the concept behind it; reason why I loved it after I started watching the show.
The only critique I have regarding this design, is the fact that there's a second version of the it, featuring a sleeker font and a more elaborated animation. I personally find it overworked; I love the look and feel of the original.
Here's the link to the official release by Digital Kitchen:
http://www.d-kitchen.com/project.php?p=67
And here's the original version. In fact this has been used all throughout season II, I don't know why DK changed the version they showcase in their portfolio.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ii40V-KR9Y4&feature=related
I'm on episode nine of season two, three more episodes and I'll see what happens to my favorite serial killer.
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The first time I watched the title sequence for Showtime's "Dexter" I liked it, after I started watching the show, I fell in love with it.
Posted by: Ivan Cruz on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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Okay so I might not be the first to tell you that Indiana is back and so what if you already knew this last year – it’s new to me! So let me revel for a moment in the glory of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The [...]
Posted by: Claire Alexander on Monday, February 25th, 2008
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This blog has sure gone stale, hasn’t it? I wonder if we have any readers left? We sort of suck, you’re right. Anyway, I’m still blogging, which is ironic as I used to be the lame infrequent blogger at IBC. Here’s a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 7th, 2008
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Then, as if that weren’t enough, starting February 1st we get Sword of Doom, Kurosawa’s take on Macbeth, Throne of Blood and his samurai comedy, The Hidden Fortress, Seven Samurai (the most expensive samurai film ever made, later remade into The Magnificent Seven), Harakiri, the hard-to-find Three Outlaw Samurai, Samurai Saga and Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron.
If you have it in your head that these films are the Japanese cousin to the swashbuckler or just glorious displays of violence, it’s time for some schoolin’. These are some of the best films made anywhere, worthy enough to win at Venice and Cannes, funny, moving, occasionally deeply romantic and sad (Samurai Rebellion might be the best samurai date movie ever made).
Go. Just go.
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My passion for samurai films is really unreasonable. Well, for that and Yakuza films. And the films of Takashi Miike, Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, anything Takeshi Kitano was ever in (especially Brother), Japanese serials like Lone Wolf and [...]
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Monday, January 7th, 2008
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