Other Worlds Austin Has a Time Lapse

All sci-fi film fest announces centerpiece title

Sept. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

That Time of the Month

Christian Remde spans the calendar year with his Twelve Films Project

"...center stage with "360," a 90-second-long showcase of Remde's time-lapse photography and editing skills with the Pennybacker Bridge, one..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Alpha

The first-ever boy and his dog story

"...stitched together through a mixture of landscape shots and time-lapse photography. The resulting sequences might as well be lifted..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Visitors

The Koyaanisqatsi director is back with his latest stream-of-vision meditation.

"...score by Philip Glass. Its revelations audaciously bloom like time-lapse flower footage, subtly shifting from one aspect of the..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chasing Ice

Time-lapse photography of various glaciers melting over the years provides undeniable evidence that they are disappearing faster than ever before.

"...Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and Montana, and programmed to take time-lapse pictures of the glaciers before them. The findings were..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chimpanzee

The Planet Earth filmmakers turn their cameras on an orphaned chimp.

"...little seen by humans. The stunning aerial photography, the time-lapse footage of nature alive and in flux, the macro..."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Earth

This nature film is derived from the Planet Earth miniseries and is edited with an eye toward the kid-friendly audience.

"...life in various ecosystems around the world, oftentimes via time-lapse photography as gorgeous and surreal as anything you’d find..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Up the Yangtze

Canadian documentary effectively personalizes the effect of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River and the 2 million it displaced.

"...submerged in water by film’s end in a sorrowful time-lapse coda...."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

My Blueberry Nights

Filmmaker Wong Kar-wai's English-language debut stars the singer Norah Jones in her acting debut, but instead of exuding newness this sensuous film has an also-ran feel.

"...familiar territory, the Wong romantic lexicon of slo-mo and time-lapse, red-light-district gels and iconic songs on endless replay, not..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Serendipity

"...which is as it should be, and some neat time-lapse tricks and musical effects (including recurring snatches of a..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Baraka

This New Age tone poem captures images from 24 countries that transcend geographical and language barriers.

"...and Powaqqatsi with respect to stylization. Heavy use of time-lapse and slow-motion photography, as well as repetitive shots, can..."

Dec. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Illtown

"...going on, unfolding with all the precision of a time-lapse rosebud. illtown is packed with brooding religious imagery. Antagonist..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Biggest Little Farm

Country life documentary may be an extended infomercial, but that can't dent its charm

"...looks stupendous – extreme close-ups of flora and fauna, time-lapse photography of changing skies and soil alike, aerial shots..."

May 17, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tim's Vermeer

Vermeer must have painted by using a camera obscura and Tim Jenison spends four years proving the method in this fascinating documentary by Penn & Teller.

"...is a hoot to watch. Director Teller cannily uses time-lapse photography to show the gestation of Jenison’s faux masterwork,..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Watch This: Balmorhea’s Gorgeous Concert Film, Free for Three Days Only

Live in Marfa breathes new life into The Wind

"...He adds: “The film almost acts as a slow time-lapse from the first song to the last.”..."

Dec. 1, 2022 Music Post by Austin Powell

SXSW Film Review: Planetary

Meditative global tour of Earth from a distance

"...of urban centers bustling with human activity, often in time-lapse sequences in the manner of Planetary's spiritual forebears Koyannisqatsi..."

March 19, 2015 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Gazing Back at Other Worlds Austin

Time Lapse dominates Cthulhie awards, plus festival highlights

Dec. 13, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Arrebato

Addicted to filmmaking in this newly restored Spanish horror

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Night at the Opera

Jon Else's Sing Faster, showing this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, shows us opera Like we've never seen it before from the stagehands' perspective.

"...to ask you how you did those two amazing time-lapse sequences, especially the one at the end where you..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Rich in Love

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Other Worlds Austin Announces Lineup

New SF fest announces latest Amy Seimetz feature as closing title

"...The festival (Dec. 4-6) had already announced water wars..."

Oct. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Best Man Holiday

Fourteen years after the first film, this sequel finds our likable characters experiencing the pitfalls and promise of middle age.

Nov. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Scanlines

Twister

Oct. 18, 1996 Screens Feature

Gerry

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gaia

The moldering earth has had enough with humanity in this South African ecohorror

"...Entitled “The Earth – A Living Creature,” it’s a time-lapse simulation showing seven days in the life of our..."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A White, White Day

Icelandic revenge drama is really a perfect study of stifled grief

"...opens him up slowly, quietly, and through externalities. The time-lapse shots of the farm are matched for emotional power..."

April 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

63 Up

The British documentary series about growing up faces growing old

"...this vantage point, so many episodes in. It’s their time-lapse essence: the chance to observe what the accumulation of..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fungi

There’s more to this wonderful biological documentary than mushrooms

"...compelling in the doc is Schwartzberg’s endless reliance on time-lapse footage of mushrooms blooming. It’s fascinating at first, but..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry

A look into the world of the farmer and activist

"...task is writing or farming. The film’s opening Koyaanisqatsi-like time-lapse imagery also emphasizes a sense of life speeding along..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Born in China

The Disneyfication of nature continues

"...by poachers or human encroachment into animal territories. A time-lapse sequence of foliage going through an annual cycle provides..."

April 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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