The south of France gets the Y5 treatment by brothers Eugenio and Jacopi Manghi who explore in super slow motion the traditions of La Course Camarguaise which calls young raseteurs to enter an arena and remove rosettes from a bulls head.  This cultural celebration dates back to the 1890s from even earlier traditions, and it combines the region’s interest in bullfighting with a nonviolent competition.

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“I never wanted to be a news cameraman, I honestly, I never wanted to be in this business, I, actually I am an architect.”

Everyone has a different story detailing their entrance into the art and business of cinema. For some it started as an unscratchable itch in childhood, becoming a lifelong ambition–yet for many of these, the itch is never eased and they never make the final cut–for others it was only after following a labyrinthine path of chance and coincidental necessities, stringing them along until planting them in the foothills of Hollywood. For Checco Varese, Director of Photography on the upcoming film Georgia, the path was more the latter, but like all whose lives place them far from their once-imagined futures, it is often the ostensibly unrelated knowledge comprising their own childhood itch which forms the unique lens through which their work is illuminated. (more…)

It’s 2004.  You’ve been tested and found exceptional, and now you are a necessary actor on the front lines of modern warfare.  You are a member of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit; your duty is to render safe any potentially explosive object, protecting your comrades and nearby non-combatants alike.  But not every mission is a success, not every member a survivor, and now, little more than one month remaining in your rotation, your team leader has become a casualty, and his brash replacement is making your quickly approaching departure an even greater uncertainty.  It is into this context that The Hurt Locker places its audience, attempting to provide a more matter-of-fact experience than previous filmed narratives about the US war that has defined the 2000s.

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Integrated Design Tools, Inc. in Stuttgart Spotlight

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Integrated Design Tools, Inc. (IDT) bolstered its international presence, appearing at the 2008 Vision Show in Stuttgart, Germany, Nov. 4 – 6, 2008. The event is often utilized as a venue for new technology premiers, making it the perfect opportunity for IDT to share its new N-Series camera platform with more than 6,000 expo goers.

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