Renowned for its creative innovation and individuality, AllSaints adds yet another dimension to its cutting edge brand by launching its film division, AllSaints Film. The division will commission young, up-and-coming filmmakers to release multiple projects each year, exploring everything from music and style to cutting-edge moving image installations. The …
Here at Notion, we love a good movie, so the announcement of the Cannes line up was all kinds of exciting. In celebration of this, here’s a cut out and keep (or whatever the online equivalent is… print and keep?) guide to the biggest films competing for the top prize, …
Short film competitions are pretty cool at the best of times, giving aspiring filmmakers a platform upon which to show off their work to people who are not only interested, but also people who can help kick start a career.
Virgin Media Shorts is one such festival, only there’s one …
GoPro is in the business of HD Cameras, and the versatility of their product lends itself well to recordings of all sorts. To show off some of the visual flare their cameras are capable of, GoPro recorded “Hidden City of Heroes,” which captures video from all around London. Sites include …
Films about schools and students seem to be the latest trend to sweep independent cinema, with Afterschool, We Need To Talk About Kevin and Goodbye, First Love all making waves in the past few years. But none of these films come as close to greatness as Michel Franco’s Un Certain …
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the Palme D’Or in 2007 with his previous (and second) film, the abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Now, with his long-awaited follow-up, Beyond The Hills, Mungiu has not only surpassed the quality of his last film, but established himself as one …
Laurence Anyways, the new film from prodigiously talented filmmaker Xavier Dolan is 160 minutes of pure emotion, telling of the resilience of love under the weight of the world. Heavy stuff, right? Well, yeah, Xavier Dolan isn’t exactly one for subtlety. The film follows the titular Laurence, a professor whose …
This latest tour-de-force of emotion from agent provocateur Michael Haneke recently won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival – the most prestigious honour in arthouse cinema. So to say this had a buzz around it would be underselling it. With buzz comes expectation – in this case, massive …
Matteo Garrone’s Reality, his follow up to mafia crime-drama Gomorrah, may be a far cry from the criminal violence of his earlier work in terms of content, but it retains the unflinching brutality that made him such a critical darling back in 2008, albeit in a very different way. Reality …
Dutch footwear brand HUB have joined forces with street artists Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koolhaas, aka Haas & Hahn, for the first in a series of documentaries inspired by the company’s ‘Challenge the Obvious’ motto.
The 30-minute short film, which documents Urhahn and Koolhaas’ endeavours to utilise art as …
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