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February 12, 2013 Marina Galperina

Here’s a perfect thing that just happened. The much awaited TPB:AFK documentary premiered at the Berlinale film festival. It’s about the Pirate Bay founders. We’ve been really looking forward to it. So much. And now, from the artists of the F.A.T. collective, here’s the TPB AFK ILLEGAL CAM BOOTLEG AT WORLD PREMIERE!!! Yey. You can torrent it at F.A.T. […]

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February 11, 2013 Marina Galperina

Last week, the new 6-second video sharing social network phenomenon Vine was slapped with an NC-17 rating,  because of all the naughty content. And so, ANIMAL launched… Completely not associated with Vine or Twitter, yey. WE HAVE FESTIVAL RULES UPDATES (see below). To enter, Vine us a 6 second video of something naughty, brave and arty with the […]

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February 7, 2013 Marina Galperina

The Vine app has recently launched — allowing users to easily shoot and share six second video clips, effortlessly. Naturally, it’s been flooded with babies, puppies, penises and food. And penises. Also, boobs. The NSFW vines can be easily located and so, yesterday, the app slapped itself with an NC-17 rating, oooooh. And so, ANIMAL is proud […]

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February 5, 2013 Andy Cush

To test just how clever Cleverbot really is, director Chris R. Wilson created a short film, co-written by the celebrated artificial intelligence platform and acted out by real humans. According to Wilson, he’d set up scenes for Cleverbot, then allow it to fill in the characters’ dialogue. The resulting film is as zany as should […]

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Marina Galperina

From supercut extraordinaire Harry Hanrahan, here’s today’s pippin’ fresh supercut, oh boy! It’s people getting hit by busses. And other vehicles. ‘Cause people on bad tv shows be steppin’ into traffic backwards. It’s all really funny. 12 and a half minutes of hilarious. Funny stuff. Ok, ok… The Buffy one is funny. “Any last words?” “Just one. Truck.” […]

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February 4, 2013 Marina Galperina

Ooh. This is better than the last new Nick Cave video — the shadow-strolls-through-forest-moodily that Gaspar Noé’s directed. Sorry, Noé. Heart you. From the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 15th album Push the Sky Away (yes, you can pre-order), featuring Ray Winstone, here is the “Jubilee Street” music video directed by John Hillcoat. Hillcoat directed The Proposition, which was awesome/written […]

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February 1, 2013 Marina Galperina

Yes, this a documentary. It’s shot gorgeously. It feels like a feature film, but… you can’t make this shit up. Berlin’s Fuck For Forest is one of the world’s most bizarre charities. Based on the idea that sex can save the world, the NGO raises money for their environmental cause by selling home-made erotic films […]

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January 29, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

British composer/director Alexis Kirke’s new short film Many Worlds is about a troubled girl who takes the famed quantum physics “Schrödinger’s Cat” thought experiment a little too literally… From there, however, the plot is determined by the audience. Using sensors that monitor brainwaves, muscle tension, and heart rate, Kirke’s unique take on interactive film will automatically […]

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January 28, 2013 Marina Galperina

You’d think the plasmodial slime mold is already fascinating enough. It can solve puzzles. It can make music. It’s, essentially, an intelligent, slithering alien goo. But wait. There’s more. Creeping Garden is a new documentary produced, researched and directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp and it’s “a real life science fiction movie” featuring fringe scientists, artists and […]

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January 25, 2013 Marina Galperina

Here comes Henry Hill and he’s going to beat you, Google Street View truck dude! This Google Street Scene tumblr has one the best movie net art collections you’ll ever see. The shot-scouting and Photoshop wizardry looks damn meticulous. Blue Velvet house? Check. Godfather ambush spot? Check. Unbridled cinephiliac excitement? Checkity-check-check. “The address is approximate.” Well, no shit. […]

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