WATCH Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait and the issue of the magic powers.

Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson’s
(quintessentially Scandinavian) short film from 2001.
Looking forward to seeing their new feature film ‘Sound of Noise’.
Music with a twist.

Directed by Solve Sundsbo
Music by Owen Pallett

Working on SB6…

The art of opening credits is probably my favourite of all.

In one of the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks Putin and Medvedev are compared to Batman and Robin.
It’s a useful analogy: isn’t Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’s organiser, a real-life counterpart to the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight? In the film, the district attorney, Harvey Dent, an obsessive vigilante who is corrupted and himself commits murders, is killed by Batman. Batman and his friend police commissioner Gordon realise that the city’s morale would suffer if Dent’s murders were made public, so plot to preserve his image by holding Batman responsible for the killings. The film’s take-home message is that lying is necessary to sustain public morale: only a lie can redeem us. No wonder the only figure of truth in the film is the Joker, its supreme villain. He makes it clear that his attacks on Gotham City will stop when Batman takes off his mask and reveals his true identity; to prevent this disclosure and protect Batman, Dent tells the press that he is Batman – another lie. In order to entrap the Joker, Gordon fakes his own death – yet another lie.

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