Time Immemorial: Pine Point

The National Film Board of Canada has produced an amazing documentary project called Pine Point. It was created by The Goggles, from AdBusters magazine and is a hypnotic, entrancing portrait of a vanished town in Canada called Pine Point. It was a town created out of thin air, occupied for a generation, and now exists ensconced in the memories of its one-time residents. Haunting, beautiful, sad, and tender I cannot recommend taking 20 minutes and exploring this work. While it retains a linear quality to its structure, the piece blends media formats and techniques and allows you to navigate at your own pace without ever feeling gimmicky.

The project is available here.

Awe

There are times you have to sit in awe of the singular talent of an individual.  Today, that man is Alex Roman.

This is the most breathtaking work of pure CGI (ie: it’s 100% CGI) I have ever seen – including Avatar in IMAX 3D. And this was all done by one guy. The 3D modeling, the rendering, the coloring, even the music.  It’s slow, it’s not really a good film, but as a work of art, it is breathtaking. Please go watch it on Vimeo, full screen, in HD.