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Written on 13th May 2009
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Upload Cinema takes the best of the web to the big screen. Every first Monday of the month a fresh program of inspiring and entertaining internet shorts is screened at Movie Theater De Uitkijk in Amsterdam. Each month there is a new theme. The audience can submit videos; an editorial team selects the best.
On May 4th (as the Dutch memorialize the dead of WO II) Upload Cinema looked at the way death is eternalized on the web. Yes, there was war & terror, blood & guts, but also art & poetry, impressive death rituals and lots of black humor. From 141 entries, 36 were chosen. Guest curators were: journalist Ben de Dood and poet Frank Starik.
Dodenherdenking
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Written on 11th April 2009
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Upload Cinema takes the best of the web to the big screen. Every first Monday of the month a fresh program of inspiring and entertaining internet shorts is screened at Movie Theater De Uitkijk in Amsterdam. Each month there is a new theme. The audience can submit videos; an editorial team selects the best.
Typo-Film, in collaboration with the Graphic Design Museum and International Film Festival Breda, was all about the combined power of written word and moving image. The show was a funky mix of music videos, info graphics, title sequences of motion pictures and of course, type movies made especially for the web. From 152 films entered 38 films were selected for the big screen.
The next edition of Upload Cinema will be about ‘Death on the Web’. Submit your suggestions at the Upload Cinema website.
Guest curator was Mieke Gerritzen, director of the Graphic Design Museum. Check out ALL the videos play, after the break: (more…)
Written on 3rd March 2009
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Last nights edition of Upload Cinema was all about the use of technology to shape ourselves to our ideal image. The audience looked at fitness, body building, plastic surgery, robotics and bionics. The videos show the sane, the insane, the good, the bad and the ugly.
And the beautiful!
134 movies were entered and 35 films were selected. Guest curator Martin C. de Waal.
Here are all the movies that were shown:
Perfect
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Written on 12th August 2008
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Tessa Sterkenburg,
Almost all the movies that I watch are in English. There must be an enormous amount of brilliant movies made in other languages, but I don’t know about them. Because of the language, these movies often don’t get reviewed by international journalists and are therefore not known by the larger public. Some producers, including some of the famous Bollywood filmmakers are even starting to produce their movies in English.
There is another solution: subtitles.
TVsubtitles.net is a site that enables you to find subtitles for most popular TV Shows and movies. Just download a subtitles file and install a DirectShow filter for Windows Media Player (called DirectVobSub), and if you have subtitles for movies or TV Shows that are not on the site yet, you’ll be able to upload them.
Subtitles are available in several languages including English, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian and Arabic. Most subtitles currently available are for English language shows, and it would be great if more English subtitles would become available for foreign language shows.
There are no subtitles for Indian movies and TV shows yet. While we wait, we count on Buffalax:
Written on 31st July 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Not ‘you’ but iTunes U. Apple is now offering downloadable videos of museums, cultural institutions and a bunch of world renowned universities such as Yale, Duke and MIT. Just login, select a few courses you are interested in and download them to your iPhone or iPod, for free.
Now your favorite destination for music and movies is also a great place to entertain your brain. iTunes U in the iTunes Store offers free audio and video content from top universities, famous museums, public media stations, and other cultural institutions. So whether you want to learn from the world’s leading thinkers, get a sneak peek at the latest MoMA exhibition, or simply brush up on your Spanish, iTunes U makes it easy.
I admit, this isn’t regular ‘Next Web’ stuff but the content is delivered to you online and you can watch it anywhere so to me this is about as extraordinary as it gets. Get started now and tells us what you want to learn…
UPDATE: “Though the program has existed on a smaller scale for a few years, it now offers more than 50,000 audio and video tracks “. Guess I missed it before and Apple has just now decided to promote iTunes U more actively. Either way, check it out.
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