Early in the summer I wrote about the YouTube Play, the Guggenheim + YouTube collaboration in search of the next big thing in video. A recent visit to the site revealed the Guggenheim curators’ shortlist of about 200 videos which will be voted on by a jury in a few weeks. While I have not [...]
Looking back at Moustapha Allassane, one of the earliest African animators, made this brilliant satirical animated film in 1966 – roughly the end of colonial era in most of Africa. Allessane who was born and raised in Niger, is the director of over 25 films and still works and teaches film in his home country.
One of the interesting results of the proliferation of web video has been that whatever special distinction independent filmmakers felt they had is kind of over. The truth is, right now, in January 2010 most of the visual storytelling–series, one-off videos and even features you’ll find on content sites (outside of the Netflix and Hulus [...]
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