Category Film and photo
Filmkursen var lyckad – välkomna med på filmfest och delta gärna i tävlingen!
Ekenäs filmfest r.f. ordnade en filmkurs på Axxell den 17-19.8 och 24-26.8. Den var mycket lyckad och resultaten kommer att kunna ses på Ekenäs filmfest den 8-10.2 2013. Förberedelserna för Ekenäs Filmfest åttonde filmfestival inkommande vinter har kommit igång och föreningen inbjuder nu också till sin andra årliga satsning dvs. kursen i filmarbete, som har […]
Jonas Lutz at Arkadia International Book Shop
Jonas Lutz had a innovative clay project at Arkadia International book shop in February. Filmed by Pätkkä productions. Events at Arkadia book shop – what a place. I am so happy there is support for (not yet) well known independent artists as well as many forms of artistic expression! More about Jonas’ project.
“Ai Wei Wei never sorry” – go see it and DO something!
Go and see it! After seeing a film like AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY one gets a different perspective on ones own life and at least I go home from the movie like that eager to do more and work for causes I believe in while I am alive. Earlier this year I saw Fairy tale – […]
Inga Donner Solonevich is the mountain!
Accordning to the The Roanoke Times Inga Donner Solonevich was the mountain! We are so lucky to have met her but very sad that she died just before we got to visit her again this summer. We had the opportunity to once more drive up the mountain dirt road to her lovely Solola on Sheep Mountain in The […]
Bolt’s pictures and “Kids with cameras”
It is somehow refreshing to see the world from a different perspective from time to time. The photos Usain Bolt’s took with Jimmy Wixtröm’s camera give us a hint of how it is to always have cameras in your face and a whole world watching every step you take on the field. Bolt’s photos makes […]
Slow design and slow parade
Yes there is slow design in Amsterdam! An amazing socially and sustainably responible design project investigating slow creative potentials of people, place and time! In 2010, the design research organization slowLab (US/NL) began a partnership with the Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy in Amsterdam to explore the potentials of a ‘Slow-er’ Lloyd. “As a further development of her project, Lekker Vies, designer […]
Nora Ephron groundbreaking filmmaker and writer
Nora Ephron who died this week was a groundbreaking filmmaker with films like When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless In Seattle, Julie and Julia and many other of the most memorable romantic comedies in recent history here in an interview with NPRs Neal Conan she describes how hard it is to get used to getting older. I don’t know how many […]
The birth of the American Film Institute
A very interesting Diane Rehm Show with American Film Institute founding director George Stevens. It offers an inside look at the art and craft of making movies. Stevens has written a new book which presents conversations between students and moviemakers from the 1950s to Hollywood today. Jack Sayles (below) is behind the camera on the 1983 film […]
Snagfilms – your home for great films
Snagfilms is a great indie documentary site. There are so many films that never get to the movie houses (especially in Scandinavia) and Snagfilms is where you can find some great independent films. On the Snagfilm site*, you’ll find the work of professional filmmakers and there is also a student section. The films were selected by their […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 