Here’s a short film of the brand launch – a 500 person protest on the steps of Parliament House – to fight for $500m worth of extra funding and support from the government for people living with the disease.

Join the fight at fightdementia.org

Alzheimer’s Australia from Interbrand on Vimeo.

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I recommend watching it in full screen with the music on.

Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.

Stuart Devlin from New York based agency Red Peak has been in touch regarding a new recently completed project titled Lifecycle.

The project was a unique experiment for Hudson Urban Cycles and involved documenting a year in the life of an ordinary bicycle chained to a post in SoHo – New York City.

“There’s nothing quite like a real book.”
“By the time those words bring the curtain down on Sean Ohlenkamp’s magical video, “The Joy of Books,” even the most tech-savvy readers will want to put down their e-readers and stop and think about the pleasure to be found in traditional books.

The art director at the Toronto-based ad agency Lowe Roche recently teamed up with the local T.O. bookstore ‘Type Books’ to create this stop-motion video tribute to the printed page.

The final film, which is less than two minutes in length, plays out with delightful wonder — so much so, in fact, that this ode to the pleasure of paper books scored 27,000 views after it was posted on Monday on YouTube. It has since gone viral, amassing over 1 million views.”

If you didn’t manage to watch this, it’s well worth spending an hour of your day and catching it on iPlayer.

Will the rise of electronic books mark the final chapter in the love story between traditional books and their readers? Alan Yentob discusses the subject with a host of writers.

It is the latest short film produced by UCLan’s Chris Leonard, Lecturer in Film Production and has proved to be a real hit with fans of Vimeo, attracting over 20,000 views in just two days.

Described as ‘beautiful, austere, horrifying and  heartbreaking’. It has been nominated for Best British Short Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Short synopsis
“Paddy, honour-bound after the death of his father, is committed to maintaining his family’s farming traditions. But when his only son, William [14] shows no sign of following suit, Paddy fears the legacy will be lost forever. Convinced that he can change William’s sensibilities, Paddy engages William in increasingly challenging farm work. But as Paddy’s relationship with the adolescent William deteriorates, Paddy pushes his son one step too far, with devastating consequences.”

The Cull – Short Film from Jonathan Harris on Vimeo.

Worth a watch, especially for its beautifully shot northern landscapes with amazing lighting. See more landscape footage and info here.

Firstly, is the usual “Life in a day” where thousands of filmmakers around the world recorded videos of their lives on July 24, 2010. A cinematic experiment to document a single day on earth.

It is creative, emotive and contains hundreds of beautifully shot clips. Really worth a watch.

Click the here to see the whole film.

They are now looking for film makers to record footage for “Britain in a day” on satursday 12 November 2011. If you are interested go to Britain in a Day.

Another incredible program to hit the tv recently is the BBC’s Frozen planet.
It is packed with absolutely amazing scenes, brilliantly shot, with lots of never seen before footage. The programs also shows at the end how some of the scenes were filmed. You can watch on the iplayer by clicking here. Incredible.

One Hundred and Eight – Power of Making edit from Nils Völker on Vimeo.

As part of the Power of Making exhibition at the V&A in September, the public are invited to submit short films that celebrate the power of making – it may explain, illustrate and/or observe ‘making’ skills, techniques and process.

Thanks to Claire Norcross for sending the link.

Drawing from a collection of over 20,000 educational and industrial films, the A/V Geeks Stock Footage collection provides a wide spectrum of material from later half of the 20th century – hundreds of hours worth of footage available for your project (broadcast, DVD, online, corporate, student films). Visit the site here.