In an era when digital videos can be created in any shape, why do so few filmmakers stray beyond the four corners of the familiar cinematic rectangle? Where are all the jellyfish-shaped films?!
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We asked filmmakers to submit ONE VERTICAL SHOT encapsulating their lived experiences or hopes for the future on a single (extra)ordinary day in human history during the coronavirus pandemic: May Day, 1 May 2020. These shots were edited into a single Creative Commons vertical short film: Onwards, Upwards.
Adam is co-founder/director of the Vertical Film Festival in Katoomba in Australia's Blue Mountains. Along with his sister Natasha, he created the Festival, the world's first competition for vertical video, as a platform for exploring cinematic undercurrents that make us think about how we frame the world.
More details and a short essay on the format may be found at the Festival's website: http://vertical.video
Adam made this 4-minute video for Sydney Opera House's Greening the House program in late 2014. It shows how Jørn Utzon’s architectural design principles established a path towards sustainability for the House.
Five short vignettes made for the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS), South Eastern Section, featuring people whose lives have been changed by the Service assisting them in their hour of need.
The wanderings of a herd of camels lost amidst the roundabouts of an abandoned desert ‘suburb’ in the UAE. Single-channel HD video with sound.
A timelapse journey revealing a metropolis seemingly devoid of human presence.
Single-channel HD video with sound.
In this online documentary, you can navigate your way through the web of streets that form the Old City of Jerusalem (Al Quds). The interface give you an impression of moving through it. Sometimes, you will find doorways that you can enter, doorways that take you into the hidden layers of Jerusalem.
Every year at the end of autumn, tourists and workers depart the Mediterranean islands of Greece, leaving behind hundreds of cats to fend for themselves. To the music of Sibelius'Valse Triste, we follow them through the beautiful, near-deserted island village of Oía on Santorini.
These short vignettes with RFDS South Eastern Section’s Broken Hill staff combine interviews in a rough-and-ready handheld style with the stills taken every year of RFDS staff and patients, both by Adam Sebire.
Examples include Architects of Air’s Mirazozo, Joss Whedon live on stage, an interview with Gotham Chopra On The Future of Comics, Babies Proms’ The Four Seasonsand A Load of Rubbish, made as an in-house recycling-awareness video for Greening The House.
Web videos for Sydney Opera House including Soap, Love, Loss & What I Wore, Helena & The Journey of the Hello, In Glass, The Last Cargo Cult, and I’m Every Woman.
Adam was contracted by YouTube to make the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 Callout Videos featuring members of Berlin Philharmonic and The Sydney Symphony.
Australia's SBS Radio & Television Youth Orchestra follows in the great Polish composer's footsteps: from Warsaw to Kraków, Prague to Vienna and Paris, 200 years after Chopin’s birth.
SBS Youth Orchestra gives the concert première of the “Wild Swans Suite” by Uzbek-born Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin. It features footage of Uzbekistan’s astonishing Silk Road architecture from Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand.
Ottorino Respighi’s extravagant ballet score sets the musical scene for a cinematic journey up the River Nile in Egypt.
SBS Radio & Television Youth Orchestra play the music of Bach, Giazotto & Gabrielli from Fürstenfeld Abbey in Upper Bavaria, Germany.
Concerto F60 will transform a former mining machine in Lichterfeld, Eastern Germany, into the world's largest musical instrument, to be played by professional musicians and Lusatian locals alike. It will be part of the IBA "Paradise II" programme for 2010, redefining an area transfigured by open-cut coal mining.