Clutch vs Gorillaz: The video mashup?

I love the new video for Gorillaz' Stylo, but unfortunately i find that the song doesn't fit the visuals. The track is a bit to, um, casual (for the lack of a better term) for a video that contains muscle cars, cops, guns and Bruce Willis. So i took the song Big News I, from the great American rock band Clutch and their 1995 self titled album, and recut Stylo to it. I think it works well.



Clutch official site

Gorillaz official site

YORKTON FILM FESTIVAL

I was in Yorkton recently to take in a bit of the festival. I met some friends and checked out the new Panasonic twin lens 3D camera. 3D still seems like a novelty to me and is a few years away from practicality on the low budget scale of filmmaking. Plus i don't really know how many stories (whether doc or fiction) really warrant the 3D experience.

The main reason i was in Yorkton was to guide a group of high school students in making a video (shot and edited) in about 5 hours. It was a great experience that was facilitated by Tony Hrynchuk of Fahrenheit Films. The students had the task of shooting their interpretation of a scene from Alexander Payne's Election. They did a really good job and if i get a copy of it i'll throw it up here.

Yorkton Film Festival

TRUCKERS

Convoy - 1978 - Directed by Sam Peckinpah



High Ballin' - 1978 - Directed by Peter Carter



White Line Fever - 1975 - Directed by Jonathan Kaplan



Smokey and the Bandit - 1977 - Directed by Hal Needham



Duel - 1971 - Directed by Steven Spielberg

HOT DOCS

I will be at Hot Docs this year to soak in the festivities and see some great (hopefully) documentary films and to hang out with some friends.

hotdocs.ca

'North America's largest documentary festival runs for 11 days, April 29 to May 9, presenting over 170 films from more than 40 countries and welcoming hundreds of international filmmakers and industry delegates to Toronto.'

SCREENING:

THE DISTANCE BETWEEN
16mm>DVD - 15m58secs - Stereo - English

The 12th Annual Antimatter Film Festival
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Saturday, October 10th 9pm @ Open Space

Antimatter.ws

From Antimatter:
"Dedicated to the exhibition and nurturing of film and video as art, Antimatter has grown into the premier showcase of experimental cinema in the west. Encompassing screenings, installations, performances and media hybrids, Antimatter provides a noncompetitive festival setting in Victoria, British Columbia, free from commercial and industry agendas.

The highest standards of curatorial practice are employed to build thematic programs of innovative film and video selected from international submissions. In addition, our annual Foreign Matter series has become the incubator for hundreds of short films, all new to North American audiences, compiled and contextualized by international curators. Reciprocally, Antimatter delivers curated programs of new Canadian work to international audiences through our Foreign Matter tours.

Since 1998, the quality and creativity of its programming, commitment to audience development, and respect for filmmakers and their work have made Antimatter one of the most important media arts events in Canada, and the world."

DRUG CLASS

Season 2 premiered last week and all new 13 episodes air every thursday night on SCN broadcast in Saskatchewan and nationally on Bell Satellite TV. Season 3 is currently in production and once again i am the Director of Photography and co-directing with Robert Daniel Pytlyk.

Drugclass.ca

scn.ca/drugclass

SCREENING:

APPARATUS | CONSTRUCT | MANIPULATION
16mm>DVD - 2m56s - Stereo - English

4th Montreal Underground Film Festival
Montreal, Quebec
Friday, May 15th 9:30pm @ Le Cagibi

http://www.muff514.com/

A|C|M is a group film that is shot, hand processed and edited by Justine Litynski, Kim Simard and myself.