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LOOM 4k short film by Ridley Scott & son goes online

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25 pointsCineKid14 comments

LOOM is a great example of low-budget movie-making. Partway thru this sci-fi futuristic dystopia I realized that everything was current mundane stuff, just brilliantly arranged to give the impression of future tech. No computer-generated imagery (enhanced, perhaps, but not photo-realistic animation), no model shop, just off-the-shelf, what's-laying-around commonplace stuff.

Could very well amount to a Blade Runner prequel.

The camera looks really promising.

The movie on the other hand... when every other visual art form has freed itself from almost every constraint imaginable, it's amazing that in the 21st century young directors, who regard themselves as innovative, are still content to offer us simple combinations of representational art, like oil paintings from 17th century, with the narrative structures of romantic novels from the 19th.

The subtitles, if I'm not missing something, seem to be a direct rip-off of Godard's "Navajo subtitles"[0].

[0] http://sensesofcinema.com/2011/feature-articles/godardenglis...

There's no reason you can't innovate within representational art, and your "freed itself from almost every constraint imaginable" is someone else's "descended into idiotic gibberish".

According to the site, it was directed by Luke Scott, not Ridley Scott. Which is good because I didn't think Ridley Scott capable of something so terrible.

It's literally a tech demo for a projector technology. If you don't have a 4k 3D laser projector, it's going to be pretty pointless.

Although watching it at NAB in 4k was quite impressive, I'll say. It gives me hope for future tech in the film-making realm.

I dunno, Prometheus was pretty average!

It's a demo reel to test a projector, though. Not sure if it's going to turn into a full film?

Whenever you see "X presents" or "X's", it means "not created by X".

Apart from name dropping, I don't see what is so different than any other red camera production? It's conformed in 4k, so what? Anyone with anything shot on red can do that on their home editing suites (even I did it!). This is basically a commercial for TBR projector from RED (company where everything is TBR and WIP).

Damn, I really wanted this to be based on the 1990 LucasArt adventure game Loom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom_(video_game)

Great short nonetheless.

I'm surprised they're not using torrents to distribute this 1.6 GB file.

Welcome to 2012, where 1.6 GB doesn't actually seem that bad.

It seems that direct download has seen a resurgence over the past couple years relative to torrent. For example, for plenty of Linux distros, you have to hunt a little longer to find the torrent link, but the direct download is a pulsing button.

I think professional CDNs can deliver large files to a lot of people without choking bandwidth or crushing servers. And they give you more control over how long the file is available, maybe some statistics on who's downloading it etc. What I really can't understand is why they zipped a H.264 video, it turns out slightly larger!

Here's a torrent if you really want one :) https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4NmQa1UbwBCWW1nQzRfcDJOd0E

direct link to youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcvSTk8M5qY

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