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Film: West Coast

Photographer Thomas Tepstad Berge spent three years capturing footage across the western coast of Norway, traveling between the two cities of Stavanger and Bergen. He paired his final, beautiful collection of time-lapses and hyperlapses with a song by the Norwegian artist Foreground Set. If you’d like to see more of Berge’s work, visit his Facebook page.…

Friday Poll: Godzilla as Tourism Ambassador?

Godzilla as Japanese Tourism Ambassador View image | gettyimages.com One reads that the [f]ire-breathing, building-stomping Godzilla was welcomed to Tokyo on Thursday, but as a sign of prosperity rather than destruction. The violent radioactive monster was appointed special resident and tourism ambassador for Shinjuku ward, known for its bars and noodle restaurants. A Godzilla-size head…

Sunday Animation: Danny and the Wild Bunch

DANNY AND THE WILD BUNCH – Short Film from robert rugan on Vimeo. A children’s book author is told that her new manuscript needs to be “darker”, but when her revisions piss off the characters in the book, they come back to make some changes of their own…. Winner “Best Short Film” – Las Vegas…

Film: Elgin Park

There’s a creative beauty in model-builder Michael Paul Smith’s Elgin Park, but lacking the beauty (or ugliness) of actual people, it’s an artificial beauty —

The Hunting Ground

Academy-award nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering have a new film now in limited-release, entitled, The Hunting Ground, about campus sexual assault.  The film addresses violence, institutional cover-ups, and the damage done to victims & families from both assault and subsequent, institutional misconduct.  The official trailer for the film is embedded above.  (The same…