Sixteen filmmakers are in the running for the first D&AD Next Director Award, created in partnership with Youtube and supported by MOFILM.
Selected by a panel of industry leaders including Dougal Wilson, David Bruno, Ringan Ledwidge and Juliette Larthe, the following films — including a few music videos — comprise the first shortlist:
The Next Director Award is separate to the D&AD Professional Awards, and will be judged three times per year, producing three separate shortlists. The next entry period is now open, with a deadline on 15 October 15.
Artists/Directors Pensacola and Gusti Fink combine for this imaginative art clip, creating a 3D world and filling an empty swimming pool with digital waters for some daydreaming skateboarders.
"Can't Stop Now" is an especially immersive video game that goes way beyond 3D — there's some anaglyph trickery with the colors and interlacing that might reveal some fun suprises if you've got the glasses — and delivers players into a dangerous situation.
The rest of us, however, have to wait for the new Grand Theft Auto.
Just when you though Data-Moshing had gone the way of the fish-eye lens... it returns. The trick here is how it's used strategically and amongst various other effects to create the trippiest video kaleidoscope you may have ever seen.
