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Zachary Mortensen
Zachary Mortensen (born October 5, 1972) is an American film producer, writer and founder of the production company Ghost Robot. Biography Zachary Mortensen is the founder and CEO of Ghost Robot, a production and management company in New York City. In 2006 Mortensen produced the feature films ''Choking Man'' by iconoclastic music video director Steve Barron, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and ''Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox'', a film about E. H. Bronner by director Sara Lamm, which premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival. "Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox" was released in theaters in the summer of 2007 by Balcony Releasing. Mortensen's feature film ''Road'' by director Leslie McCleave premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2005 where it was awarded outstanding performance for the two leads, Catherine Kellner and Ebon Moss-Bachrach and was released theatrically in 2006 by 7th Art Releasing. In 2001, Mortensen produced the feature documentary ''Hell House (film) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Robot
Ghost Robot is a creative content studio based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, United States. The company produces projects in a variety of media. History Ghost Robot was founded in 2002 by Zachary Mortensen. The company derived its name from the theme of a music video Ghost Robot was producing at the time. The video was for the song "In The Waiting Line" by the band Zero7, directed by Tommy Pallotta. "In The Waiting Line" was the first commercial use of machinima using the Quake engine, animation engine from the Quake (video game), Quake video game. The video won awards at the first Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences awards ceremony at the Museum of the Moving Image, Museum of Moving The Image in New York City. In 2005 Mark De Pace joined the company as a full partner and spearheaded the formation of the company's roster of directors for commercial representation. The addition of De Pace repositioned the company within the industry and began their official move into adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machinima
Machinima () is the use of Real-time computing, real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. The word "Machinima" is a portmanteau of the words ''machine'' and ''Film, cinema''. According to Guinness World Records, machinima is the art of making Animation, animated narrative films from computer graphics, most commonly using the same Game engine, engines used by Video game, video games. Machinima-based artists, sometimes called Machinimists or Machinimators, are often fan laborers, by virtue of their re-use of copyrighted materials (see below). Machinima offers to provide an archive of gaming performance and access to the look and feel of software and hardware that may already have become obsolete or even unavailable. For game studies, "Machinima's gestures grant access to gaming's historical conditions of possibility and how machinima offers links to a comparative horizon that informs, changes, and fully participates in videogame culture." The practic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creative Control (film)
''Creative Control'' is a 2015 American science fiction drama film, directed by Benjamin Dickinson from a screenplay written by Micah Bloomberg and Dickinson. It stars Dickinson, Nora Zehetner, Dan Gill, Alexia Rasmussen, Gavin McInnes and Reggie Watts. ''Creative Control'' had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 14, 2015. The film was released on March 11, 2016, by Amazon Studios and Magnolia Pictures. Plot In the near future, an ad executive uses a new reality technology to conduct an affair with his best friend's girlfriend. Cast * Benjamin Dickinson as David * Nora Zehetner as Juliette * Dan Gill as Wim * Alexia Rasmussen as Sophie * Gavin McInnes as Scott * Reggie Watts as Reggie Watts * Himanshu Suri as Reny * Jay Eisenberg as Hollis * Meredith Hagner as Becky * Jake Lodwick as Gabe * Robert Bogue as The Actor * Jessica Blank as Lucy * Austin Ku as Teddy * H. Jon Benjamin as Gary Gass * Sonja O'Hara as Lauren * Jon Watts as Commercial Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Checkpoint Zoo
''Checkpoint Zoo'' is a 2024 American documentary film directed by Joshua Zeman. The film follows a group of Ukrainian zookeepers and volunteers who risked their lives to rescue animals trapped in Feldman Ecopark during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and received positive reviews from critics. Synopsis The documentary deals with the 71-day rescue mission to evacuate thousands of animals from Kharkiv’s Feldman Ecopark, which was shelled with Russian artillery during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Production Director Joshua Zeman was inspired to create the documentary after seeing a viral video of ChiChi the chimpanzee wandering Freedom Square in Kharkiv. The team gathered footage from zookeepers and news reports and made trips to the site to film additional footage on location. Release ''Checkpoint Zoo'' had its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival on June 6, 2024. Critical resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Hoppers
Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions. Modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as ''spacetime''. The concept of space is considered to be of fundamental importance to an understanding of the physical universe. However, disagreement continues between philosophers over whether it is itself an entity, a relationship between entities, or part of a conceptual framework. In the 19th and 20th centuries mathematicians began to examine geometries that are non-Euclidean, in which space is conceived as '' curved'', rather than '' flat'', as in the Euclidean space. According to Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, space around gravitational fields deviates from Euclidean space. Experimental tests of general relativity have confirmed that non-Euclidean geometries provide a better model for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Village Voice
''The Village Voice'' is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first Alternative newspaper, alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf (publisher), Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, ''The Voice'' began as a platform for the creative community of New York City. It ceased publication in 2017, although its online archives remained accessible. After an ownership change, ''The Voice'' reappeared in print as a quarterly in April 2021. ''The Village Voice'' has received three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Press Foundation Award, and the George Polk Award. ''The Village Voice'' hosted a variety of writers and artists, including writer Ezra Pound, cartoonist Lynda Barry, artist Greg Tate, music critic Robert Christgau, and film critics Andrew Sarris, Jonas Mekas, and J. Hoberman. In October 2015, ''The Village Voice'' changed ownership and severed all ties with former parent compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nawlz
NAWLZ is a 24-episode cyberpunk adventure webcomic created by interactive designer and illustrator Stu Campbell, also known as Sutu. The comic is designed for interactive storytelling, combining interactivity, animation, music and text. The comic first launched in late 2008 and was followed by an iPad format in 2011. The comic story follows Harley Chambers as he navigates through the city of Nawlz, a futuristic city full of overlaying virtual realities, mind-altering drugs and a myriad of techno cultures. Format The format of NAWLZ is experimental. Traditional comic panels have been replaced by multifaceted animated frames which work on a panoramic, interactive digital canvas. Digital Comics. On popular platforms such as ComiXology user Interface functionality allows readers to zoom in on panels or select Guided View option to read the comic pages panel by panel. NAWLZ has a horizontal digital scroll instead. The format has also won the comic an FWA award and a WEBBY award. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stu Campbell
Stuart Campbell (born 1981), producing work under the name Sutu, is Australian artist and director who works with digital media. He has produced interactive webcomics, augmented reality stories, virtual reality films and virtual concerts. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Career Campbell often locates his projects and presentations among isolated populations and involves the residents creating interactive web content including '' Neomad'', a digital interactive comic series created for the iPad in collaboration with the community of Roebourne in northern western Australia. ''Neomad'' was adapted as a live-action television series in Australia and has inspired the Neo-learning curriculum in Australia. Awards * 2016 Gold Ledger Award- NEOMAD, print edition. * 2016 Webby Honoree for best NetArt - These Memories Won't Last * 2015 Winner of Air15 Artist in Residency in Vienna, Austria * 2015 Winner 2016 Neo Future Ateles Artist in Residency, Finland * 2014 Atom Awards Best Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Zeman
Joshua Zeman is an American film director, writer and producer. He is best known for his documentaries ''Cropsey (film), Cropsey'', The Killing Season (American TV series), ''The Killing Season'', ''Murder Mountain (TV series), Murder Mountain (Netflix),'' and The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness, ''The Sons of Sam'' ''(Netflix)''. His most recent project is the 2024 documentary ''Checkpoint Zoo'', which he also directed and produced. Zeman’s directorial work spans a variety of films and series that explore the intersections of folklore, true crime, and investigative journalism. Known for blending urban legends with investigative storytelling, Zeman’s narrative-driven style has redefined the true crime genre, renewing public interest in unsolved cases. Early life and education Zeman was raised in Staten Island, New York, where his parents, both avid readers of mystery and horror novels, introduced him to these genres at an early age. His father served as the treasurer of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cropsey (film)
''Cropsey'' is a 2009 American documentary film written and directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio. The film initially begins as an examination of "Cropsey", a boogeyman-like figure from New York City urban legend, before segueing into the story of Andre Rand, a convicted child kidnapper from Staten Island whose known or suspected crimes in the 1970s and '80s may have inspired or been blamed on Cropsey. In 2009, ''Cropsey'' premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and critical reception has been overwhelmingly positive. Production Zeman’s and Brancaccio’s objective was to bring the distinct elements into one overarching narrative: the oral tradition of urban legends, the mystery of several missing children from the region, the courtroom drama, the search for the roots of Staten Island's obsession with the case, and the community's need for catharsis. When filming began, Zeman and Brancaccio sent Andre Rand a letter. Rand was serving a 25 year sentence for the 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
