Plastic Paper is Winnipeg’s celebration of animation, illustration and puppet films, organized by the Big Smash! filmmaking collective. Their second annual event will be held on May 4-8 at the Park Theatre.
The big score for this year’s edition is a special screening of Ralph Bakshi’s 1981 feature-length musical opus American Pop with the filmmaker in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. For this groundbreaking work, Bakshi utilized the innovative technique of mixing rotoscoping, water colors, computer graphics, live action shots, and archival footage. This screening and discussion will be a real treat for animation junkies.
But that’s not to say that the rest of the festival isn’t also filled with other amazing films.
Because, speaking of groundbreaking work, the fest kicks off with Brent Green’s simply astounding film Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, the first full-length film utilizing real-life actors in amazing stop-motion animation.
The big score for this year’s edition is a special screening of Ralph Bakshi’s 1981 feature-length musical opus American Pop with the filmmaker in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. For this groundbreaking work, Bakshi utilized the innovative technique of mixing rotoscoping, water colors, computer graphics, live action shots, and archival footage. This screening and discussion will be a real treat for animation junkies.
But that’s not to say that the rest of the festival isn’t also filled with other amazing films.
Because, speaking of groundbreaking work, the fest kicks off with Brent Green’s simply astounding film Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, the first full-length film utilizing real-life actors in amazing stop-motion animation.
- 4/30/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Now this brings a whole new meaning to the word “adaptation”. Gamer and amateur filmmaker Mathieu Weschler, who has worked on a number of French commercials, wrote a script and spent the last two years working on his own feature-length film that takes place within the world of Grand Theft Auto IV. The large and widespread terrains that have made GTA games famous were the platform for Weschler’s own movie called “The Trashmaster“.
Here’s how Weschler describes his film :
The “trashmaster” divides his time between collecting garbage and cleaning up other forms of trash fouling up New York City’s streets: dealers, small-time criminals… When the dancers in his favourite strip club are mysteriously killed, the trashmaster finds himself hot on the trail of a particularly twisted serial killer.
Before you judge this as having its popularity limited to sites like YouTube and Vimeo, know that The...
Here’s how Weschler describes his film :
The “trashmaster” divides his time between collecting garbage and cleaning up other forms of trash fouling up New York City’s streets: dealers, small-time criminals… When the dancers in his favourite strip club are mysteriously killed, the trashmaster finds himself hot on the trail of a particularly twisted serial killer.
Before you judge this as having its popularity limited to sites like YouTube and Vimeo, know that The...
- 1/12/2011
- by Arvindh
- Obsessed with Film
There is actually a full-length film out there called The Trashmaster that is entirely made up of footage from the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, and it's actually pretty freakin' awesome. The movie was made by French filmmaker Mathieu Weschler, and he did it in two years. The story follows a rogue garbageman who's looking to take out the human trash.
It takes a lot of skill, talent, and patience to put a movie like this together. It definitely deserves to be watched.
Here's a rundown of the movie:
The trashmaster divides his time between collecting garbage and cleaning up other forms of trash fouling up New York City’s streets: dealers, small-time criminals… When the dancers in his favourite strip club are mysteriously killed, the trashmaster finds himself hot on the trail of a particularly twisted serial killer.
Like GTA this movie made is full of sex, drugs and violence.
It takes a lot of skill, talent, and patience to put a movie like this together. It definitely deserves to be watched.
Here's a rundown of the movie:
The trashmaster divides his time between collecting garbage and cleaning up other forms of trash fouling up New York City’s streets: dealers, small-time criminals… When the dancers in his favourite strip club are mysteriously killed, the trashmaster finds himself hot on the trail of a particularly twisted serial killer.
Like GTA this movie made is full of sex, drugs and violence.
- 1/12/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Fox's new big-budget family adventure-drama series "Terra Nova" will premiere with a special two-night event Monday, May 23rd at 9pm Us-est and Tuesday, May 24th at 9pm Us-est. The series will then screen in full starting in the Fall, and a heap of new photos are up at The Live Feed.
A pretty nice French poster for Thor, and set photos of Tom Cruise on location in Vancouver shooting Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
One of my fellow old school online scribes, the indomitable Drew McWeeny, has penned a short story entitled "The Interview" which is up at Popcorn Fiction.
"The Weinstein Company has acquired domestic distribution rights to Andrew Dominik‘s "Cogan’s Trade" and has already made a $20 million promotional and publicity commitment…" (full details)
"Short of ill health preventing him, actor Christopher Lee is now set to return as Saruman in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit"…" (full details...
A pretty nice French poster for Thor, and set photos of Tom Cruise on location in Vancouver shooting Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
One of my fellow old school online scribes, the indomitable Drew McWeeny, has penned a short story entitled "The Interview" which is up at Popcorn Fiction.
"The Weinstein Company has acquired domestic distribution rights to Andrew Dominik‘s "Cogan’s Trade" and has already made a $20 million promotional and publicity commitment…" (full details)
"Short of ill health preventing him, actor Christopher Lee is now set to return as Saruman in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit"…" (full details...
- 1/12/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
I'm not sure where this fits into the whole 'video games are / aren't art' argument, but I'm looking forward to seeing how people try to use it as evidence for one side or the other. Mathieu Weschler spent two years culling and assembling footage from Grand Theft Auto IV into The Trashmaster, a full-length feature about, yep, a garbage man. But a garbage man who, in slight Travis Bickle fashion, wants to clean up his city. Watch it after the break. As the rundown on GTA publisher Rockstar's site [1] puts it, The "trashmaster" divides his time between collecting garbage and cleaning up other forms of trash fouling up New York City's streets: dealers, small-time criminals... When the dancers in his favourite strip club are mysteriously killed, the trashmaster finds himself hot on the trail of a particularly twisted serial killer. I'm of two minds about this. One is that this...
- 1/12/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Respect the Trashmaster. With all of the tools for generating user-created content afforded to the modern-day gamer, machinima – the art of crafting unrelated video content out of in-game assets – is becoming quite a big deal. Enter GTA IV: The Trashmaster, filmmaker Mathieu Weschler’s 90-minute thriller. It’s a pretty standard revenge tale, but Weschler leans on his background in film to weave a compelling tale. And hey, at least it’s better than The Town. --Adam Rosenberg
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- 1/11/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
Respect the Trashmaster. With all of the tools for generating user-created content afforded to the modern-day gamer, machinima – the art of crafting unrelated video content out of in-game assets – is becoming quite a big deal. Enter GTA IV: The Trashmaster, filmmaker Mathieu Weschler’s 90-minute thriller. It’s a pretty standard revenge tale, but Weschler leans on his background in film to weave a compelling tale. And hey, at least it’s better than The Town. --Adam Rosenberg
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- 1/11/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
Respect the Trashmaster. With all of the tools for generating user-created content afforded to the modern-day gamer, machinima – the art of crafting unrelated video content out of in-game assets – is becoming quite a big deal. Enter GTA IV: The Trashmaster, filmmaker Mathieu Weschler’s 90-minute thriller. It’s a pretty standard revenge tale, but Weschler leans on his background in film to weave a compelling tale. And hey, at least it’s better than The Town. --Adam Rosenberg
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- 1/11/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
If you are familiar with the videogame and film world, you probably know about Red Vs. The Blue, the machinima created from Bungie’s popular Halo game universe. Now, director Mathieu Weschler has stepped up another level, and created an entire 90-minute feature film from Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV game. [Joystiq, via Cinematical]
The film is titled Gtaiv: The Trashmaster and features voice acting from actor Matt Challands. Check out the Nsfw film below:
Synopsis: A dark, action-packed thriller about a garbage man who begins hunting a serial killer after all his favorite dancers at the local strip club are killed.
Do you think this creative filmmaking approach is viable as we move into the future?
E-mail Jordan Raup here. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook for the latest Tfs updates!
The film is titled Gtaiv: The Trashmaster and features voice acting from actor Matt Challands. Check out the Nsfw film below:
Synopsis: A dark, action-packed thriller about a garbage man who begins hunting a serial killer after all his favorite dancers at the local strip club are killed.
Do you think this creative filmmaking approach is viable as we move into the future?
E-mail Jordan Raup here. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook for the latest Tfs updates!
- 1/11/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Filed under: Video, Cinematical
These days it's all about finding the most creative ways to make a movie. Yesterday we brought you the news that Park Chan-wook has become the most well-known director to film a movie (albeit a 30-minute short) using only the iPhone 4. Now we bring you the news (as well as the entire film) of a French director who literally created a full-length feature within the world of the 'Grand Theft Auto' video game.
Titled 'Gtaiv: The Trashmaster', filmmaker Mathieu Weschler brings us a dark, action-packed thriller about a garbage man who begins hunting a serial killer after all his favorite dancers at the local strip club are killed. Okay, not exactly the most inspired storyline, but then again the world of GTA doesn't exactly give you much to work with aside from seedy criminals and trashy street-walkers.
Commenters seem to dig the film so far,...
These days it's all about finding the most creative ways to make a movie. Yesterday we brought you the news that Park Chan-wook has become the most well-known director to film a movie (albeit a 30-minute short) using only the iPhone 4. Now we bring you the news (as well as the entire film) of a French director who literally created a full-length feature within the world of the 'Grand Theft Auto' video game.
Titled 'Gtaiv: The Trashmaster', filmmaker Mathieu Weschler brings us a dark, action-packed thriller about a garbage man who begins hunting a serial killer after all his favorite dancers at the local strip club are killed. Okay, not exactly the most inspired storyline, but then again the world of GTA doesn't exactly give you much to work with aside from seedy criminals and trashy street-walkers.
Commenters seem to dig the film so far,...
- 1/11/2011
- by Erik Davis
- Moviefone
Filed under: Video, Cinematical
These days it's all about finding the most creative ways to make a movie. Yesterday we brought you the news that Park Chan-wook has become the most well-known director to film a movie (albeit a 30-minute short) using only the iPhone 4. Now we bring you the news (as well as the entire film) of a French director who literally created a full-length feature within the world of the 'Grand Theft Auto' video game.
Titled 'Gtaiv: The Trashmaster', filmmaker Mathieu Weschler brings us a dark, action-packed thriller about a garbage man who begins hunting a serial killer after all his favorite dancers at the local strip club are killed. Okay, not exactly the most inspired storyline, but then again the world of GTA doesn't exactly give you much to work with aside from seedy criminals and trashy street-walkers.
Commenters seem to dig the film so far,...
These days it's all about finding the most creative ways to make a movie. Yesterday we brought you the news that Park Chan-wook has become the most well-known director to film a movie (albeit a 30-minute short) using only the iPhone 4. Now we bring you the news (as well as the entire film) of a French director who literally created a full-length feature within the world of the 'Grand Theft Auto' video game.
Titled 'Gtaiv: The Trashmaster', filmmaker Mathieu Weschler brings us a dark, action-packed thriller about a garbage man who begins hunting a serial killer after all his favorite dancers at the local strip club are killed. Okay, not exactly the most inspired storyline, but then again the world of GTA doesn't exactly give you much to work with aside from seedy criminals and trashy street-walkers.
Commenters seem to dig the film so far,...
- 1/11/2011
- by Erik Davis
- Cinematical
Gamer/Amateur filmmaker Mathieu Weschler must love him some "Grand Theft Auto." The French commercials director wrote a script and spent over two years using the "Grand Theft Auto IV" engine to bring his movie to life. Yes, the movie is created within the world of the game and then edited together to fit the script. The film is called The Trashmasters and this is how Weschler describes it: "The "trashmaster" divides his time between collecting...
- 1/11/2011
- by Mike Sampson
- JoBlo.com
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