If you’ve ever wondered how movies vary in colour and motion, scene-by-scence, don’t worry any more. Cinemetrics is a project that’s decoding and visualising films, and you can see it in action here. More »
With the shift to digital cameras, old-fashioned photomats are getting harder and harder to find. But this portable, Army-issue dark room has everything you need to develop your own prints wherever you are. More »
If you had $US625,000, this Panavision PSR 35mm camera could have been yours. Which is expensive. But it also happened to have filmed most of Star Wars. So, yeah, money well spent. More »
Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg have made an incredible contribution to science fiction filmography. But who was the better director? In the eyes of Terry Gilliam, there’s not even a race to be run. Not specifically on the grounds of specific technical merit, but more simply because Kubrick was willing to leave people distinctly unsettled. More »
Wanna know why movies are called flicks? It’s because of the flickering light that’s emitted from film projectors. Like smoking, smell-o-vision, and intermissions, it looks like 35MM films and their projectors are on their way out of the cinema. More »
One Millionth Tower is part of Highrise, a series of mini-documentaries about the history of high rise towers and their effect on society. What sets this one apart from the others is that it was made using HTML5 technologies such as WebGL and Javascript. More »
James Cameron loves 3D a whole lot, and he’s still passionately pushing for cinemas to adopt 60 frame per second projection, arguing it’ll make for better 3D. More »
This balletic work of aerial badassery is performed by Dante Ha, a professional stuntman who you can find in movies like The Dark Knight Rises and X-Men: First Class. Just try to do half of what he does. More »
