By Robert Barry
In April 2005, less than a year before shooting their own debut film Electroma, the French electronic group Daft Punk directed themselves in a video for the song 'Robot Rock', from their third album, Human After All. The video finds Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo in black leather and robot masks performing on a dark, neon-lit stage resembling somewhat the sets for the BBC's flagship pop music show Top of the Pops in the late eighties. Surrounding the stage, a p...
NEW SUBMISSION TO ÉCU 2012 MUSIC VIDEO CATEGORY
Music video for band
Cool Fun... From the crevices of a decrepit house the disjointed bodies
of elegant dolls come to life, watched over by a strange and sinister
little girl.
Les poupées élégante devenue à la vie dans les
crevasses d'une maison décrépite, surveillé par une jeune fille étrange
et sinistre jeunes.
On
to the first of firsts…the launch of ÉCU’s new category, ‘ÉCU Firsts’.
This exciting new edition offers first-time filmmakers the opportunity
to screen their films at the ÉCU Film Festival in our special “ÉCU
Firsts” screening area in Paris, for free, from March 30th to April 1st
2012. Check our website’s Homepage for details on submission criteria.
For the first time ever, Kadi is off to Sofia, Bulgaria to judge the
7th edition of the International S...
ÉCU- The European Independent Film Festival is giving first-time filmmakers an even greater chance getting their work seen at the ÉCU Film Festival in Paris on the March 30th to April 1st 2012.
If you enter your FIRST EVER short film (made after Jan 2010) into the ÉCU FIRSTS category, ÉCU will waive the submission fee and will guarantee a screening of your film in Paris in our special ÉCU FIRSTS screening area. All you have to do is to be at the festival to reserve your screening time an...
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the second annual G-Technology Driven Creativity Competition 2011, and a prize of €5,000 and a G-SPEED Q drive, is Amateur Film Entry, 'We Miss You' by student filmmakers Steffen Wilhelm (Producer), Sebastian Bandel (Producer), and Hanna Maria Heidrich (Director). The judges favourite, their short film embodies the creative spirit of the competition, focusing on the relationship between humans and nature by asking: What if nature misses us or do...
NEW SUBMISSION TO ÉCU 2012 YOUTH CATEGORY
Synopsis: Alessio, caught by the headmaster painting a mural at school, tries to justify himself by saying he didn't realise he was actually inside the school as he was listening to rock music "... it gives him such a rush". As a punishment he has to clean the school toilets, listening to classical music...
Alessio realises that everything which happens in the scho ...
New submission to Youth Category of ÉCU 2012 – “Reading Together” tells the story of a girl She ignores her surroundings, until the moment she meets a stranger on her everyday drive to school. Could this be the first ever Youth Category winner? /// Nouvelle soumission à “Film des Jeunes Réalisateurs Européens » d’ÉCU 2012 – « Reading Together » rencontre l’histoire d’une fille qui Elle ignore ...
