Category Archives: Film

Fifty People, One Question

By Chip Cain | Published April 19, 2009

It’s a simple question in London… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQk30nYUOAw It’s a simple question in Brooklyn… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJAUGg4081Q It’s a simple, but different question in New York… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e53VeQ-pmc Now go ahead and ask your self these same questions: they’re not always so simple… Share your answers by leaving your answers in the comments.

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Forgetfulness – Billy Collins Animated Poetry

By Chip Cain | Published April 5, 2009

Poetry  has always had an oral side to it’s history, now with video added we have a third way of receiving poetry.This poem by Billy Collins incorporates the written text, the spoken word and the visual images for a different way to take in poetry. Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America’s [...]

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The Gift of The Unknown

By Chip Cain | Published January 12, 2009

As our culture changes, Walter Brueggemann has observed, we must restate eternal truths in order for them to remain truthful. For the faithful, the artistic imagination can safeguard the strangeness and newness of the gospel, preserving it from domestication by our ideologies and culture. This year, the Trinity Arts Conference theme urges us to curiosity [...]

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Typolution

By Chip Cain | Published August 17, 2008

Minimalist art from a typewriter or so it would seem. All the images are built using the type found on a typewriter. Simple, graceful, and full of Story! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPfTlpCKaw&hl=en&fs=1] Worth the 3:11 minutes of your time

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The Color Keeper

By Chip Cain | Published July 17, 2008

Here is something I stumbled across (isn’t that how we find everything?). I knew I had to share it here even though it is a small work as art goes, but with a big heart. The background music is by J Tillman from his “Minor Works” The Color Keeper from Grandchildren on Vimeo.

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The Dead: Billy Collins Animated Poetry

By Chip Cain | Published April 4, 2008

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80 Years of Oscar Movie Posters

By Chip Cain | Published February 28, 2008

Are you a movie poster addict? At least the online type? If so, there is a link just for you and its called Movie Poster Addict.

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Foreign Films

By Chip Cain | Published February 7, 2008

If foreign films aren’t the kiss of death for you then will you share with us what foreign films you have seen in the past 6 months or at least what’s in your queue? My Netflix queue contains the following “foreign” films: Jean de Florette Manon of the Spring The Lives of Others Shower Bread [...]

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Pane e tulipani: Bread and Tulips

By Chip Cain | Published February 6, 2008

A friend of mine just sent me the following: “If you haven’t seen this movie, you need to add it to your (large) to be seen list. Italian with english subtitles. It was funny and touching. Good for the next cold winter night. If we get any more of those! Maybe you have to be [...]

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The Air I Breathe; is it fresh or stale?

By Chip Cain | Published January 31, 2008

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8JGh5z9IDk&rel=1] “Four short fables in which characters collide with fate — and each other.” Is this another Crash which won 3 Oscars, including Best Picture and 35 other awards within the film industry. Or, will The Air That I Breathe be as thin as the air we breathe? The trailer above makes me curious but [...]

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Cloverfield: Not for those who avoid adreneline rushes

By Chip Cain | Published January 20, 2008

Cloverfiled is frenetic, frightful and fun. Shot through the view of a single lens, several post college young adults find themselves running from one of the scariest monsters to be filmed in years. It’s an old trick not to show the audience what is happening to increase the tension, and old tricks work well; at [...]

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Walking backwards can lead somewhere

By Chip Cain | Published January 12, 2008

This short film by Chris Vincze, titled Evol, considers what would happen if you walked in a direction different than the rest of the world. I love it’s implication that those we connect with are following similar paths as ours. Some would call that fate; I would call it intentionally orchestrated by Love. Note the [...]

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