It is the spectacular unboxing of Google’s Nexus One phone. The stop-motion is by none other than Patrick Boivin. In case you didn’t know, unboxing videos are quite the cult thing on the Internet.
Google hired Patrick Boivin to do something off the beaten track. And we say they were well served.
We’re biased of course, but we think it’s one of his best. And it’s gonna go viral like crazy!
UPDATE: as of this a.m. the clip is a few hits shy of half a million.
After more than eight years of touring and dancing for Edouard Lock’s La La La Human Steps, dance star Bernard Martin collaborates with choreographer Danièle Desnoyers. She was given carte blanche by Danse Danse to create this new piece, which is apparently a huge departure from the more multidisciplinary approach of her earlier work. Her new piece for six dancers is among the most anticipated events of the season.
Favorite quote lifted from Danse Danse website: “…raw, urgent, invigorating, mid-way between strangulation and freedom, restriction and escape.“
(Starting today thru 16th, Salle Pierre-Mercure)
Just now back from a skiing trip in the snowy Laurentians, Woolf + Lapin is happy to begin the decade with its list of ones to watch for 2010.
It’s going to be a big year for animation. Look for animation director Bernie Denk to have a breakout year. Also, Gerard Lewis, by far one of the best animation writers in the country, has just begun work with Studio Pascal Blais.
On the web side of things, Woolf + Lapin is happy to pair up with Prospek, an established Montreal Internet Business Strategist. Their website really kicks, man.
Patrick Boivin will continue to bring his success from the past year into 2010 with a whole slew of projects including his continued collaboration with Circle of Confusion.
With two series in development with Vrak (Luc Déry) and Radio-Canada (Guillaume Vigneault), Martine D’Anjou will continue to write top-notch TV series and may just become one of the best in the biz. She also has a feature-length project in the works. Other writers in for a great 2010 are writing team Christopher Giardino and Robyn Burnett whose script The Best Man was just picked up by executive producer Gerd Koechlin (The Black Dahlia) for Berlin-based Phoenix Films. Also watch out for Martin Girard’s much anticipated thriller Angle Mort. Shooting is to begin in the coming weeks in Cuba.
Jérémie Saindon will direct his street gang feature in the Fall. Saindon is co-writing with me (Stephan Dubreuil) and the script is to be filed for production at the end of the month. Caramel Films to produce.
Here is Chromostone, a new clip by Monsieur Monsieur Boivin. Check him suck the energy right out of the computer…
Une projection du film Portrait de dame par un groupe de Bachir Bensaddek aura lieu à 19h00 le 11 décembre à l’Agora de la danse. C’est un portrait de la danseuse d’origine tchèque Milenka Niederlova, pionnière et grande pédagogue qui a beaucoup contribué au développement de la danse classique au Québec. Elle a fondé l’Académie de ballet de Chicoutimi. Elle a aussi été Première danseuse aux Grands Ballets Canadiens.
Le film est présenté grâce à la participation du Département de danse de L’UQAM.
Produit par Orlando Arriagada.
We talked about our friend Dave Eberts’ film Where the Water Meets the Sky back in 2008 right after its Montreal premiere. Since then, this empowering film has won accolades, including Best Global Insight at the 2008 Jackson Hole Film Festival. Jury members included Katie Evans, Vice President of Acquisitions and Production for National Geographic Films.
Where the Water Meets the Sky uses film as a tool for social change. Not only do the Samfya women (Northern Zambia) in the film learn how to make a documentary about their lives, but as the story progresses and the film takes on a life of its own, the women begin to speak out on issues that affect their lives. From Aids and prostitution to exclusion from school because of reasons as perverse as lacking the money to buy a pen or a notebook.
But as Eberts’ film gains more and more focus, the Samfya women too narrow their focus on a teenage girl who best represents their experiences of poverty and exclusion. So we are told the story of Penelop, a Zambian teenage girl who is orphaned by the ravages of AIDS, stripped of all her parents’ belongings and dismally forced into prostitution.
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, Where the Water Meets the Sky is still getting attention. Rightly so. The Sundance Channel scheduled its U.S. television premiere at 10 p.m. on Dec. 1, which was World Aids Day. It will air again on December 13th.
Voici le communiqué sur le “cinéaste explosif” en question.
“Patrick Boivin, auteur de célèbres courts métrages burlesques diffusés sur le Web, s’adressera aux amateurs et aux professionnels lors d’une leçon de cinéma, le 4 décembre de 10 h à 16 h 30. Lors de cette journée de formation organisée en collaboration avec l’INIS, il dévoilera ses secrets de « comment faire beaucoup avec peu » et livrera les rudiments techniques de son travail.”
Here’s #3 of nine Ben 10 stop-motion clips from Monsieur Monsieur Boivin.
This is stop-motion at its best. It is the latest Ben 10 by Patrick Boivin. And it’s awesome.
