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Mankind Is No Island

Posted by Marc | 8-11-2008 20:40 | Category: Awards, Homelessness, Poverty

Mike from metamike send me this heartbreaking film. It is this years winner at Tropfest NY, world’s largest short film fest.
The 3 ½ minute film, made by Jason van Genderen, was shot entirely on a cellphone, on the streets of NY and Sydney and took home the top $20,000 prize.
Van Genderen uses street signs and billboards to illustrate poverty and homelessness in the mentioned capitals.

Amazing how typography can hit you right in the hearth. I’m a little confused if the used music is the right choice for this film. Is it too much, too sentimentally?

Listen to this audio conversation with Jason van Genderen at ABC Newcastle.

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Yes, maybe the music is a bit too much.

Maybe it’s not done on purpose, but it’s great that youtube shows the word <look> as a thumbnail :)

Posted by JT | 9-11-2008 00:46

It was really good, I never imagined that simple movie like this could be that affective ..

Posted by Mohammad | 9-11-2008 11:39

Brilliant

Posted by Yoyi | 4-12-2008 00:02

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