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A Damn Fine Short SciFi-Film: Aaron Sims’ ARCHETYPE , ‘Your Memories are Just a Glitch’
Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Intertube Madness, Just Freaking Neat, Movies, Robots on February 10, 2012
Official Synopsis
RL7 is an eight-foot tall combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human. As its creators and the military close in, RL7 battles its way to uncovering the shocking truth behind its mysterious visions and past.
Directed by: Aaron Sims
starring: Robert Joy (Land of the Dead, CSI:NY) and David Anders (Heroes, 24).
What We Learned: Special effects and animation veteran Aaron Sims released his $0 budget and completely unfunded labor of love, ARCHETYPE, on the Internets January 20, 2012. After watching it the first time we decided on the spot that ARCHETYPE is pretty fucking cool!
Like most Hollywood movies, all the usual tropes are covered. Unlike most Hollywood big action fare Aaron Sims made those tropes engaging and worth watching. We’ve already viewed this short more times than we care to mention.
Seven minutes is just not enough.
We hope this taste of the ARCHETYPE world generates enough buzz and gains financial backers so that he can fully visualize his labor of love. Note: we’re almost certain the concept art of Sims complete vision is featured in the credits. Stick around and watch those for once.
Thanks for all the positive feedback everyone! This has been a labor of love on a budget of $0 and it makes it all worth while when we see other poeple responding to it. Thank you! – Aaron Sims
Official sites: http://www.aaronsims.com/ | http://www.archetype-movie.com/
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Music Break: “Under the Iron Sky” has a Noir-ish Music Video
Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, Music on February 6, 2012
It was 2008 when we first heard of the audacious film project IRON SKY. We’ve kept a lazyeye on their progress ever since then.
The one thing we never forgot from that first trailer was the song “Under the Iron Sky” by Kati Kink. It was/is delicious ear honey. Now that the film is finally finished after six long years of production we decided now was a good time to revisit that song. That’s how we found this short music video from 2008.
Watch: CHRONICLE Director Josh Trank’s First Stab at Fame, “Stabbing at Leia’s 22nd Birthday”
Posted by mistergroonk in Interviews on February 3, 2012
EW recently wrote an article on CHRONICLE director Josh Trank’s first brush with notoriety. That would be the 2007 YouTube short “Stabbing at Leia’s 22nd Birthday”(featured below). We had never heard of this viral video until now. After seeing this vid we must admit that Trank’s talent is definitely all over this one minute short.
The first trailers for CHRONICLE filled us with doubts. Many films before this have skated on the “found footage” wave and all have much to be desired. But as the release date neared, we must say CHRONICLE has earned our cash from our wallet.
“Stabbing at Leia’s 22nd Birthday”
Chronicle‘s director Josh Trank tells EW that he sought to create “a movie that would fall into the found footage category, but would not be like a found footage movie because [it] would have a very classical, three-act story.†The 26-year-old rose in notoriety after a found footage-style YouTube video he created went viral in 2007. Despite his emphasis on the time-tested structure, Trank was very aware that the found footage genre has its detractors. “Part of the stigma is that [they are] kind of fakey and amateurish and hard to watch,†he says. In Chronicle, though, “the audience can watch the movie and then forget about the fact that it’s P.O.V. It just feels like storytelling.â€
via EW
Moment of Who: Experience Every Doctor Who Episode from 1963 to Now in Under 10 Minutes
Posted by mistergroonk in Television, Video on January 30, 2012
YouTuber Babelcolour assembled a mighty tribute to science fiction drama on television. Anything that promotes the wonder of Who is aces in our book. While watching we noticed the subtle changes in the show’s style over the almost 50 years of its history.
The 2nd Doctor’s Who-mobile(we’re not kidding) was especially striking. And by ‘striking’ we mean ‘a bit silly.’ The 70s were crazy as hell.
Short Short Film: Bicycle Animation in Realtime. Physicists Prepare for Geeking Out.
Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Just Freaking Neat, Video on November 25, 2011
Short Short Film: Andrew McMurry’s “Retro Warfare” Makes Life a Game, Play it Old School
Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, Movies on November 9, 2011
The subtle shifts in the management of groonk.net continue. From now on out Saturday Afternoon Theater and Friday Night Movie will feature works that are 10 minutes or more. Short Short Film will cover all the stuff below the 10 minute mark. Got that? Good.
“Retro Warfare”
Music by Matthew McMurry: http://www.youtube.com/matthewmcmurry
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/andrewmfilms
Twitter: http://twitter.com/andrewmfilms
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