Director/art director Christopher Dormoy in Montréal: “Black Ice is a personal project I worked on during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic and confinement. Having to stay home does not mean less creation. It is time to observe and experience elements and details of our daily life that we find at home. [Watch]
Hot on the heels of their striking “Utopia” short film released earlier this month, Optical Arts in London craft an intricate and obsessively detailed ode to British textile designer and Arts and Crafts icon William Morris. [Watch]
From Culture Trip: “Surrealist master Salvador Dali would often be found in Catalonia’s capital Barcelona. His visits were often followed by stories as strange as his artworks.” [Watch]
Director Nicolas Cantarelli at Laposta in Buenos Aires: “Ten years ago I was told that Stanley Kubrick did actually film the Apollo 11 moon landing as a hoax. This conspiracy theory got stuck in my head for quite some time. This short film [done during the lockdown] is a tribute to that idea and of course a tribute to Kubrick himself.” [Watch]
Director/writer Fausto Montanari at Lobster Studio in Sofia, Bulgaria: “The structure of this film is built around a series of daily life episodes where the concept of absence is the main protagonist of the scene.” [Watch]
Art director, photographer Jon Krippahne in New York: “Silence is violence. That’s a phrase I’ve chanted at protests, in the face of cops who look just like me. But as I protested more and more, I realized it wasn’t just cops that needed to hear that message. It was friends, family members, and anyone else whose privilege protected them from the realities of racial injustice. [Watch]
