Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, Trent Reznor - "Mantra" (Sound City)

Music created for the film, Sound City. http://soundcitymovie.com
From the album Sound City - Real to Reel.

Dave Grohl had a blast directing his documentary Sound City and performing with his Sound City Players ensemble – but in this exclusive video, the rocker gets serious while writing and recording "Mantra" at his Studio 606 space. Grohl takes control on the drums, starting off focused and somber and unleashing his headbanging fury as the track builds steam. Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme provides the driving bassline while Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor creates a swirling vertigo of piano. The trio's chemistry is impeccable as they journey through the almost eight-minute track without a word.

Stream: Dave Grohl and Friends – Sound City: Real To Reel

Tears of Steel - Blender Foundation's fourth short Open Movie

"Tears of Steel" was realized with crowd-funding by users of the open source 3D creation tool Blender. Target was to improve and test a complete open and free pipeline for visual effects in film - and to make a compelling sci-fi film in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The film itself, and all raw material used for making it, have been released under the Creatieve Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Visit the tearsofsteel.org website to find out more about this, or to purchase the 4-DVD box with a lot of extras.

(CC) Blender Foundation - http://www.tearsofsteel.org

Duration: 12 minutes. Available also in HD and DCP 2.35:1, Dolby 5.1.

Age: Suitable for 12 years and older.
Language: English spoken
Production: Blender Institute

Producer: Ton Roosendaal
Director & Writer: Ian Hubert
Director of Photography: Joris Kerbosch
Composer: Joram Letwory

Starring: Derek de Lint, Sergio Hasselbaink, Rogier Schippers, Vanja Rukavina, Denise Rebergen, Jody Bhe, Chris Haley

Lovely Monster

Sophia is a lovely 21-year-old girl with “a rare and very dangerous condition.” She’s a monster. It’s an accident of birth, and the condition restricts her life in many ways. In this “documentary” by Francisco Calabrese, you will eventually see how her condition manifests itself. NSFW language. -via The Daily What

LICENCIADO CANTINAS the movie

"Licensed Canteens The Movie" is a short film director Alexis Morante, a musical based on the Bunbury album, featuring the singer himself.

Unhate Campaign - The film

The official film of the Unhate worldwide communication campaign launched in Paris on November 16th and presented by Alessandro Benetton.

Rosa

ROSA is an 9m50s epic sci-fi film that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where all natural life has disappeared. From the destruction awakes Rosa, a cyborg deployed from the Kernel project, mankind's last attempt to restore the earth's ecosystem.

Rosa will soon learn that she is not the only entity that has awakened and must fight for her survival. The film was created entirely by young comic-artist Jesús Orellana with no budget during a single year.

Surface To Air – Easy Like A Sunday Morning (NSFW)

New short by Jeremie Rozan (ICONCLAST). Sexy, and beautifully composed. Bring back those long summer days. (NSFW)

Link.

Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side)

Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side) is a fantastic stop-motion film, the result of a collaboration between Spike Jonze and the French designer Olympia Le-Tan. Check out also the making-of.

VOLTRON: The End - (Live action short)

VOLTRON: The End - (Live action short directed by Alex Albrecht)

When a man regains consciousness in a Voltron battle lion after an "accident" he has to decide does he live a few more minutes or try to tell the world what happened... the end is only the beginning.

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Yes.

Let it be done.

It is time for Voltron, the Defender of the Far Universe, to return to the screen. Hollywood: our supply of romantic comedies is quite adequate, thank you very much. Now devote your efforts to this noble cause. Spare no expense.

-via blastr

Bob

(vimeo link)

This animated short story is from Jacob Frey and his fellow students at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. The real ending comes after the credits begin. -via Bits and Pieces

Weetabix - "Dancer"

A cute, little girl takes a bite of her Weetabix breakfast. That’s the usual cue to dive into the bowl for a cereal-inspired world of animation for twenty seconds before zooming out to a smiling family and an endtag.

How about, instead, the girl gets out of her chair and takes us on an acid trip dance party with rimlit breaking bears. Yes?

Who is having more fun than DANIELS? No one.

We made a commercial for Weetabix Chocolate Spoonsize.

Starring the amazing Arizona Snow. And some bears.

Dir: DANIELS
Agency: BBH London
Prod Co: PrettyBird

Song: "A New World" By Mord Fustang

Behind The Scenes:
youtu.be/​_2sY_tVqq8o

‘Dragon Age: Redemption’ Official Trailer

Dragon Age: Redemption Trailer

Dragon Age: Redemption is a six-part web series set in the world of the Bioware RPG Dragon Age. The series tells the story of Tallis, an Elvish assassin, who gets a last chance at redemption when she's sent to capture a rogue Qunari mage intent on wreaking havoc in the world. The series launches October 11th.

REDEMPTION - CREDITS
Directed by Peter WintherWritten by Felicia DayExecutive Producers: Dan Kaplow, Felicia Day, Kim EveyExecutive Producer: Greg AronowitzProduced by Peter Winther, William Mesa, Emily WallinFurther Cast and Crew: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866426/

Bistro

Bistro is a darkly comical film by Sean Gray. Starring BAFTA-winning actor Peter Capaldi, Alex Macqueen and Neil Edmond. A hungry restaurant diner gets a lot less than he bargained for.

Opeth - "The Devil's Orchard"

Imagine if Dario Argento’s ’70s horror movies had weird half-animated opening-credits sequences with girls’ silhouettes in them, the way James Bond movies do. That’s pretty much Opeth’s new “The Devil’s Orchard” video, except this one is seven minutes long. In super-stylized fake-grainy images, we see cities falling under curses and bodies falling through dimensional portals, or something. Phil Mucci directs.

starring Keleigh Sperry as Soledad
Ian Mackay as The Devil / Baron Orlock
Anni Blackhurst as Mistress Shadow
Christian Bonello as Phantom

HD version now available
vimeo.com/​29459825

(via Pitchfork)

The Killing Joke

A Short Film by Sebastian Lopez

The Killing Joke is a 15 minute suspense/fiction short film about a mysterious woman that finds a red balloon tied up to a curious little box on an eery derelict street. Using classic elements of suspense and working within a seventies aesthetic, 'The Killing Joke' is an action packed film that pays homage to some of the horror movies from that era.

More: Link Vimeo.

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Directs Short Film

Thomas Bangalter, one half of Daft Punk, has directed and done cinematography for a three-minute short film that serves as a sort of advertisement for the new collection from the fashion line Co. The film stars Élodie Bouchez, Bangalter’s actress wife. She plays a woman taking care of a sick man, and lots of weird stuff happens. Also, she cries. The soundtrack is all operatic and not-at-all robot-rockish. But it has to be said: Everyone looks very nice!

Kid Cudi – “Mr. Rager”

In the video for his brooding anthem “Mr. Rager,” Kid Cudi battles a comically huge mob of weapon-wielding miscreants. The fighting itself is dimly lit and badly choreographed, the two surprise endings are both lame, and Cudi himself does not exactly make the world’s most believable badass street-fighter. Still, anything that brings to mind memories of this might well be worth seven minutes of your time. Surface To Air’s Jeremy Rozan directs.

Kate Moss drums with The Vaccines then gets naked - video

A short film showing Kate Moss drumming along with The Vaccines before getting naked has gone online to promote Rimmel make up. Scroll down to watch the video.

The four-minute clip shows Moss entering Spring Studios in north London and going to a studio in which The Vaccines are playing their single 'If You Wanna'. The model then picks up a Union Jack guitar and, grinning, attempts to play along with the band before sitting in the drum stool and trying her hand at some percussion.

Leaving the studio, she strips off to just her knickers and high heels and then puts on a red dress and poses for a photo shoot in her own studio, before racing to the roof and leaving in a helicopter. As you do.

Kate Moss and her husband, Jamie Hince of The Kills, were both in attendance at Mark Ronson and Josephine de la Baume’s wedding in the south of France last weekend.

The couple tied the knot in Aix en Provence, and guests at the two-day ceremony also included Lily Allen.

Via: http://www.nme.com/

Mortys

In the French animation Mortys, death is a working mother. Business is disrupted when her child schemes to get more of her time.

Simplistic Stylish And Strange Animated Short - "The Employment"

If you think your life is strange, watch this animated short and thank your lucky stars that you don’t have to deal with the strangeness this guy deals with every day. Made by Santiago Grasso, this short yet insightful cartoon has lots to say and plenty of style to keep your eyes satisfied. This is animation for the lost, with a stark style that matches the dark subject matter, and an overall feeling that some people will identify with from frame one. Watch it while you’re at work and you just might end up with a better appreciation of what you do for a living!