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LIGHTSCAPES is an episodic, half-hour experiential television series airing on Discovery HD Theater that captures famous buildings and landscapes around the world as they are transformed by stunning, large-scale lighting displays.

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Grant Wakefield has 3 new short films to check out.

REMNANTS explores the rise and fall of the Megalithic civilisation of Britain, via highly stylised, motion controlled digital timelapse cinematography, set to an original score by members of Tangerine Dream.

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Tom Lowe has a new clip from his forthcoming film Southwest Light.

The clips is short, but the imagery looks great.

Tom says: "I am planning to wrap principle photography on Southwest Light next March, and will edit the film in New Zealand in Spring/Summer 2011."

http://timescapes.org/

 The Samsara production team suggest that Samsara will be released in 2011.

Pierre André has kindly provided photographs from the Baraka showing at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California.

Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson were in attendance and answered questions about Baraka and Samsara.

Pierre André is a composer and you can see his portal here: www.pierreandre.net

All pictures are Copyright 2010 Pierre André

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Baraka is being shown on April 22nd at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.

Dogora,  Patrice Leconte's wonderful insight of the people of Cambodia will be released in April.  The DVD will also be re-released at the same time.

You can pre-order using the following links

• Blu Ray on Amazon.com
• DVD on Amazon.com

Tom Lowe, creator of Timescapes, has announced a new film: Southwest Light

The film will be a mixture of timelapse, slow-motion, and real-time footage.  Tom will travel the American Southwest (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona & New Mexico) for ten straight months, no stopping.

Tom says: "My goal is to create a portrait of “a time and a place” using poetic, haunting, jaw-dropping visuals.  The genre of the film will be similar to non-narrative masterpieces Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi."

Tom has received financial backing and plans to start shooting in Feb 2010.

The 9th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF) will be held March 18-26, 2010 in Tiburon, California, a showcase for the independent feature and short films from around the world.Read more >>>

Amazon are having a big sale on many BBC series, including the Blue Planet, and Planet Earth series.

Most are half price, or less! 

This is a great chance to get box sets at a fraction of their original price.  I'm particularly liking The Life Collection.  24 disc box set.  Fanastic!

See the offers on:

• Amazon.com
• Amazon.co.uk

The 8th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF) will be held March 19-27, 2009 in Tiburon, California, a showcase for the independent films and filmmakers from around the world.

Submissions are open to all genres of film: Fiction, documentary, short, animation, experimental, student, children, sports, music video.....from any nation in the world.

The festival has honored many great filmmakers: Orson Welles, Sam Pekinpah, Luchino Visconti, Charlie Chaplin, Santiago Alvarez, John Frankenheimer, George Stevens, Malcolm McDowell, Saul Zaentz, Brad Bird, Paul Mazursky, Mark Rydell, Blake Edwards ..... Read more >>>

Grant Wakefield has released a preview to this latest work, Empire of Stone, which is part of his Remnants project. It's a great timelapse film, 15 minutes in length. We look forward to seeing more of the project.

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Watch a trailer of Highway World, Martin Hans Schmitt film currently doing very well on the film festival circuit. It's also available to buy from Amazon (links below).

Watch Highway World on YouTube (sorry, can't show the video on this page)

Buy From Amazon.com (NTSC)

Buy From Amazon.com (PAL)

Baraka Blu-Ray review and quotes from Roger Ebert

“the finest video disc I have ever viewed or ever imagined”

“’Baraka’ by itself is sufficient reason to acquire a Blu-ray player.”Read more >>>

A PAL region 2 DVD of Lucky People Center International will be released in Jan/Feb next year in Scandinavia. It is the first time LPCi will be released on DVD with english subtitles (it will also have swedish, danish, norwegian and finnish subtitles).

It also contains a new 5.1 sound mix as well as the orginal 2.0 mix.

Hopefully it will be available worldwide eventually.

Some information about Samsara on the in70mm.com website.

Baraka is expected to be released on Blu-ray on 28-Oct-2008.

You can pre-order the Blu-Ray with a link at the top of the Baraka page

"FULLY RESTORED - THE FIRST MOVIE EVER TRANSFERRED IN 8K ULTRADIGITAL HD!"

Special Features: Includes over 80 minutes of all new bonus features: Baraka: A Closer Look
Baraka: Restoration

It's expected to sell for US$34.98.

Great news as Baraka is truly a film that will benefit from a high quality transfer, as it was shot in 70mm. Currently Baraka DVDs are difficult to get hold of, and I assume it is because production and release has stopped whilst the Blu-Ray HD version was published. I expect a new DVD version will also be available.

I might have to buy a new TV and DVD player soon :)

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Highway World, by Martin Hans Schmitt, is being showing at the Globians Film Festival, Potsdam, Germany on 12th August 2008, and the Globians Film Festival, Berlin, Germany on 3rd September 2008.

• Images from Highway World
• Globians web site

What energy do you worship? is a thought provoking short film, comparing various types of religious worship, to the worship of nature and the energy of its oceans from the perspective of surfers.

It's a good short film.

Mark Magidson has kindly sent a photograph from Sossosvlai, Namibia, where he is currently filming Samsara. He expects to be in Africa for 6 weeks. I hope to have more photographs from Mark soon

Click the image for a closer look.

Photograph © Copyright 2008 Mark Magidson.