In the midst of a blackout or “Rose-budding” of the DVDASA podcast, I did some looking around online and stumbled on this 2007 movie: We Are The Strange which happens to feature artist and DVDASA host David Choe doing the voice of the character Rain. We Are The Strange is an independent animated film directed by Mr. M Dot Strange. The movie combines a mixture of animation, computer generated graphics, and stop motion techniques to construct an eccentric world for the story of We Are …
Tag: sci-fi
Artist, sometimes political prisoner and provocateur Ai Weiwei is starring in a sci-fi flick about water, or the lack there of; a cautionary tale about access to information. In a dystopian waterless world Ai makes his acting debut as a smuggler. Written and directed by “Ted Talks” filmmaker Jason Wishnow and shot by Christopher Doyle (director Wan Kar Wai’s cinematographer); they secretly filmed the short feature in China. Now their looking to raise loot for post production cost through a kickstarter campaign. On …
Record/Play is a sci-fi love story described as “war, fate, and a broken Walkman transcend time and space.” It’s a short feature full of spaced out emotional beats and not much dialogue besides a woman’s voice from Bosnia 2-10-1993. The first frame tightly wraps around old cassette tapes with handwritten labels: Venezuela 4-14-86, Cameroon 1987, Portugal 8-14-87…cut to a small suite case full of cassette tapes on a dinner table. A man studies the Bosnia tape before putting it into …
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