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Cloud Atlas Retrospective

Death. Life. Birth. Future. Present. Past. Love. Hope. Courage. An 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his friend;…

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Chinese Megacities Timelapse

Living inside one of China’s behemoth cities is a humbling experience, such is the enormity of their size and the human endeavours taking place there. The…

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From Japan with Food

Online food documentary series The Perennial Plate spent two weeks travelling around Japan to create a stomach rumbling short film – From Japan with Love (and Dashi)…

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Hyundai Hyper-Matrix & Vision Hall

What do you do if you’re in charge of a multinational chaebol and have a few million dollars left in your budget to spare? You create awesomely…

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Japan in a Day

I’m really looking forward to seeing Japan in a Day which opened last week at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Following last years YouTube film Life…

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Hong Kong in 1966

We’ve looked at footage of Hong Kong in the 1930′s before but here’s some more fascinating video from a Spanish television program of what it looked like almost…

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Samsara

If you enjoyed the visual and musical tour-de-forces of Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka in the 80′s and 90′s then you will undoubtably be looking forward to the…

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CITY #3721

Another visceral portrait of Hong Kong, this time by Lam Hok Tak, a student from City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media. Interesting use of tilt-shift time-lapse sequences.

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Hong Kong Accelerate

A stunning time-lapse video by Spot On Idea (a production company in Hong Kong). Sometimes I have to pinch myself that I actually live here.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Samuel Cockedey, a French photographer and video artist based in Japan, has put together another ethereal time-lapse film of the Shinjuku area in Tokyo set to the soundtrack…

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