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Anna Brochmann is the lead actress in the literary short film drama “The Rest Cure”. Epic Lab had the opportunity to talk with her about the filming process and the special challenge to depict the role of Alice, a character based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Read the interview here in English.
In April of this year we were responsible for the “Digital Concert” film production of the Bachwochen Thun music festival. Released in September, this special concert format will make use of a newly developed video player called “SwipeKam”, which allows audiences to be their own director by choosing camera angles themselves. A real innovation. Don’t…
Last year we went back into the editing bay together with film editor Austin Nordell, sound designer Jonathan Coomes and special effects artist Lucia Scianetti, to create an entirely new version of our 2016 literary low budget short film “The Rest Cure”. It has been released today as the official 2022 “Final Cut” version, intended…
Is it possible to create a shortfilm from scratch within one afternoon? The Location Manager served as a proof of concept for director and cinematographer Andreas Graf and actor Neville Jason Fahy who decided to make use of a free afternoon during the filming of the short film comedy “Marvelous” in Athens in September 2021,…
Marcel Barsotti is one of the most successful German film composers. He has written the music for over a hundred cinema, television films and commercials (including Die Päpstin, Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen, Jesus liebt mich), and has published 40 music albums. He has been nominated many times for his music and has been awarded prestigious…
In 2019 Helen Steinemann and Regula Dodds commissioned the composer Niklaus Vogel to compose a duo for two violins for their concert entitled “à la Mozart”. The resulting musical work “Steppenwolf” was premiered on October 19, 2019 in Ebikon and has already been performed several times in public, including at the lunch and…
Jonathan Moy de Vitry is a filmmaker and the founder of RightHere/RightNow Productions, a team of Geneva-based artist-technicians infusing the best elements of classic cinema into modern media formats, from event videos and social media campaigns to livestreams and immersive (VR) experiences. I had the chance to talk with him about the Sony A7 SIII…
Elephants Dream (code-named Project Orange during production and originally titled Machina) is a 2006 Dutch computer animated science fiction fantasy experimental short film produced by Blender Foundation using, almost exclusively, free and open-source software. The music and the sound design was originally created by Jan Morgenstern (more information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_Dream). With the “Rescoring” the music…
