At a major juncture in his life, rob in the pagé family began down a road less traveled to free himself from fear, government control, and reliance on public energy and food supply, and shares his journey that led him “off the grid”.
Category: Movies
A collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney from 1946 that occurred when Dali had come to America to escape the Second World War and decided that the visual art of Hollywood was an area that he could make an artistic impression on. Because Hollywood is such an artistically conservative place, it was always going to be a difficult fit, but this surrealistically, beautiful cartoon successfully illustrates that it could have been an artistically inspiring fit.
Somewhere between surrealist and steampunk, this film was made to accompany the song “Children” by Hauschka. The cinematography is excellent and the story is abstract but captivating.
Portal: No Escape. Director Dan Trachtenberg has re-envisioned a grittier take on Portal. Starring Danielle Rayne in the role of Chell, although, with her never speaking a word, that’s never explicitly stated. She’s kept prisoner in a room and eventually discovers the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (the proper, fancy name for the Portal gun) and uses it to escape, only to realize she’s in a test chamber. The fan-favorite Companion Cube doesn’t make it an appearance, nor does GLaDOS or any cake, though you do get to see a few Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cubes.
The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you’ve been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day?
First Contact is a CGI-Live action integration short film from the second year of the Advanced 3D Productions programme. In it, Planet Earth is being visited by aliens, but this isn’t the intelligent life you might be expecting
Nikola Tesla’s contributions to science and technology include the invention of radio, television, radio-astronomy, remote control and robotics, radar, medical x-ray and the wireless transmission of electricity. Many of Nikola Tesla’s inventions were and in some cases still are considered too revolutionary by government agencies and the power brokers of the time and are discussed in detail in this documentary.
Amazing and creepy animated short about a child’s visit to a toy store by the talented Rodrigo Blaas from Pixar for Alma Films.
Nominated for an Oscar and for a BAFTA award, Jasper Morello is a short feature made in a unique style of silhouette animation developed by director Anthony Lucas and inspired by the work of authors Edgar Alan Poe and Jules Verne.