Ben Tan is an exciting new director marked by Bresson and Haneke; he discusses his powerful short Dog, inventive video for Sophie Thatcher and the artistic solutions he came upon. As a young filmmaker, I’ve seen my fair share of recent short films; none have equalled Ben Tan’s Dog. It tells the story of 19-year-old […]
AI filmmaking has moved from experimental to standard practice in under two years. AI-generated footage has appeared in major commercial campaigns and screened at real festivals, and productions with genuine budgets are now shipping AI-assisted work at scale. A recent example: Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi, a $70 million feature starring Gal Gadot and Casey Affleck, used […]
VR and AR have been “the future” for a long time. Long enough that the phrase no longer helps much. The first wave was easy to recognize. A headset at the booth. An AR filter tied to a launch. A monitor showing everyone else what the person inside the experience could see. Often, the footage […]
You probably don’t notice the wallpaper when you’re watching a great film. Or the shape of the dining table. Or the fact that one character’s apartment is filled with warm wood while another lives surrounded by cold concrete and glass. That’s the point. Because the best production design never asks for that kind of attention. […]
I am Zack Buchman, founder and Creative Director of Furry Puppet Studio, a custom puppet design studio in SoHo, New York. We design and build custom puppets for television, advertising, and music video, and most days I am somewhere between a workbench and a monitor, worrying about eyeballs. Why we still build it by hand A […]
International shoots can give an independent film something that is hard to fake such as texture, scale and truth. A street, a landscape, a local accent, or the way people naturally move through a place can add detail that a recreated location may never fully capture. But for smaller film crews, shooting abroad is extra […]
I have always struggled with the way films are usually planned. When I start one, I almost never start at the beginning. Sometimes I can see the ending clearly but not how it opens. Sometimes I know the first scene and then I am holding five versions of what could come next, all at once. […]
Filmmakers have always known that attention is everything. If you lose it, even for a moment, the emotional thread of a story starts to weaken. What’s changing now is not that attention matters more, but that it behaves differently than it used to. Audiences are constantly moving between screens, notifications, and fragmented moments of focus. […]
Shooting with anamorphic lenses can feel intimidating at first. But once you understand how they function, they become a powerful tool for visual storytelling. Anamorphics aren’t reserved for just big-budget productions either. As a director of photography, I’ve used anamorphic on everything from short films to commercial work. Anamorphic has influenced cinema, delivering a sense […]
Independent horror filmmaking often relies on atmosphere more than spectacle. Limited budgets rarely allow elaborate creature effects or complex visual sequences. What filmmakers do have is creative control over sound. The right tone in the background, a subtle texture beneath dialogue, or a sudden sonic shift can shape how an audience experiences fear long before […]
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