One Dream Rush is a film festival sponsored by 42 Below Vodka to showcase 42 films, each 42 seconds long around the theme of dreams.

Sweden.se (the official Sweden tourism website) is holding their first ever web film festival, which will be live streamed through the site.

The Impossible Project and the new holders of the Polaroid brand are teaming up to bring back the iconic camera and film.

The City Dark is an upcoming film that looks at light pollution, and the disappearance of the nighttime.

The Cat Piano is the latest animated film from Australian studio The People’s Republic of Animation. It’s won the Best Animated Short category in both the Sydney Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival.

Three artists – sculptor Jock Mooney, filmmaker Steven Eastwood and painter Mia Taylor – have just completed a month-long show/residency at The Gallery at Jerwood Space in London entitled Laboratory.

The ZERO Film Festival- which is exclusively dedicated to screening only self-financed, “zero budget”  films- is holding an advance premiere event tonight at 7:30pm at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn to promote the festival, which will be kicking off in December in NYC and LA.
The event will feature film screenings, complimentary PBR and an after party with music video premieres and live performances. Contributing filmmakers include Guy Ben-Ner, Alia Raza, Victor Varnado, Rodrigo Lopresti, Sunset Television, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Jesse Gelaznik, Elaine Lima, Bianca Ahmadi, Lovisa Inserra, “Mike Smith”, Zach Clark, Mary Wall Bronstein, Casey RAnderson, Jacquelyn Gallo, Lena [...]

Rooftop Films
Rooftop Films is an annual film festival that focuses on the screening locations as much as the movies themselves. One of New York’s best attended film festivals, much of the draw involves the unique venues, which highlight New York’s unique urban landscape. Based out of Brooklyn, screenings occur throughout the city, from the roof of the old American Can Factory artist complex in Gowanus to the Open Road Rooftop at New Design High School in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
www.rooftopfilms.com
“Rooftop Films” is featured in our latest book PSFK Snapshot Brooklyn. From the more obscure corners of the borough to just [...]

The Nigerian film industry, a.k.a. Nollywood is the new subject of an exhibition at Sydney’s Australian Center for Photography.  Producing between five hundred to one thousand films a year, Nollywood is the third biggest film industry to date.  Despite often being ”low budget, violent and excessive”, Nollywood films outsell Hollywood films on the African market.
Working alongside well-known Nigerian actors, South-African photographer Pieter Hugo has recreated typical scenes that reflect the little-known-about Nollywood industry.
The exhibition runs from Friday 12 June to Saturday 11 July at 257 Oxford St, Paddington, Sydney
Related Post: Nollywood Babylon: Rise of the Nigerian Film Industry

Red Bucket Films and notorious graffiti artist Katsu have joined forces to create their own version of the classic Eames film about scale, Powers of Ten. The short follows Katsu as he executes a series of his skull tags, which grow in size from  1/20 of an inch (on a grain of rice) to a massive 120 foot wide roof-top piece.
Watch the film, and the original that inspired it below.
 

 
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Though film photography might not need another reminder of its marked decline, Kodak announced today that it is discontinuing its venerable Kodachrome line, thus ending its 74 year run. And while this news may be come as a disappointment to only a select community of dwindling users—the line makes up less than one percent of Kodak’s already diminished film sales, and only one lab in the world still processes it—it still stands as a poignant moment in the history of photography. Kodachrome’s quality is extolled by  its legion of diehard fans, who swear by its unparalleled color reproduction and exactitude.
As [...]

Director David Lynch has released an interesting new venture called the Interview Project.  Each interview is a fascinating look into unique people from across the USA.
Lynch on the project:
Interview Project is a road trip where people have been found and interviewed.  There was no plan for the Interview Project.  It’s a twenty-thousand mile road trip over seventy days across the USA.  The team found the people going into bars, going into different locations and there they were.  The people told their story.  It’s so fascinating to look and listen to people.  What I hope people will get out of the [...]

Rob Walker points us to the short documentary “Possessed”, a film directed by Martin Hampton that delves into the fascinating world of hoarders and their belongings. Martin tells the story of four individuals who can’t let go of their mounds of stuff, ranging from old furniture to memorabilia to completely valueless bits like used cotton swabs and trash. The film tries to get at what drives hoarding behavior, suggesting it may be a type of mental illness and/or an extreme reaction to reckless consumerism and a culturally-condoned obsession with material wealth and consumption. Martin made the film during a [...]

We just stumbled upon this impressive stop motion film about a girl who misses her train in Milan and has to wait overnight.  While the film itself is quite beautiful, it made us wonder, when do stop motion films simply become films? 
This particular project is less than seven minutes long and uses over 4,500 photos.  Imagine what a basic little point and shoot will be able to do in just a couple more years?

[via Notcot]

How are we connected? Well, there’s Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter… you know the list. But what about something bigger, grander, that connects us on a global level? That’s the idea behind the Global Oneness Project, a special project of Kalliopeia Foundation, “a private grant making foundation committed to honoring the unity the lies at the heart of life’s rich diversity.”
More than just the warm and fuzzy, this project is an extensive online library of beautifully crafted short films and interviews about folks dedicated to social responsibility on the really big scale. The fluid and moving videos feature people such as youth [...]