Ahead of his talk on Jan 4th, photographer Mimi Mollica speaks to Miniclick about his work, Terra Nostra.
Categories: WRITING • Tags: discussion, doc, documentary, interview, italy, lecture, mimi mollica, photo, photographer, photography, sicily, talk, terra nostra
Musician and sound designer, Simon James, speaks to Miniclick about his piece Voltage Control
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As they approach their grad show, we spoke to this year’s Brighton University MA Students.
Categories: WRITING • Tags: brighton, course, discussion, education, england, interview, ma, mini click, miniclick, photo, photobook, photograph, photographer, photographers, photography, sussex, uk
by Bryony Good
Here is the collaboratively photo-illustrated story created by our contributors to the HOME project. In response to this year’s Brighton Festival theme of ‘home’ we initiated a collaborate submissions project exploring collective experiences of returning home, each being an emotive and personal journey we all can relate to. Writer John Morrison wrote us a short story about his experience returning home and our talented participants each responded to a section photographically to create this collectively photo-illustrated piece. The results are below… […]
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The worlds of cinema and of photography run closely to one other. So many techniques are shared, adapted, lent and borrowed; only a few elements remain exclusively in the domain of one or the other. One such element that film can use with such power is editing, and the montage. Our resident film writer, Gabriel Gane, takes us through the history and it’s significance to storytelling, of this technique. Editing: The Magic of Montage “Editing is the basic creative force, by power of […]
Categories: WRITING • Tags: aronofsky, article, battleship potemkin, brighton, cinema, edgar wright, edit, editing, essay, film, francis cord coppola, gabriel gane, la roue, magic, mini click, miniclick, montage, mother, movie, movies, photography, pudovkin, requiem for a dream, the godfather, the kuleshov experiments, writing
Our good friends, Hoxton Mini Press, are crowdfunding for a brand new series of books that mark a departure of sorts from their previous output. With just over 24hrs to go until the deadline for the Kickstarter (which you can support here), we caught up with Martin Usborne from HMP to discuss the new series… Martin Usborne: HMP started after I made a small book about an old man that I once saw outside my window in Hoxton. I was fascinated by him […]
Categories: WRITING • Tags: alex holder, book, books, brighton, emily stein, hmp, hoxton mini press, interview, martin usborne, mini click, miniclick, oli kellett, photo, photobook, photography, publishing, ronni campana
With the release of High-Rise, Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of JG Ballard’s novel, the manner in which architecture is used as a cinematic device is in the spotlight again. Through Blade Runner, Rear Window and Inception (spoilers below for all three), via Harry Potter, Star Wars, Alien and The Shining, Miniclick’s resident film writer Gabriel Gane explores some of the most notable occasions in which architecture has played a starring role. Architecture in Film – A Foundation for Story In the introduction […]
Categories: WRITING • Tags: alien, architecture, blade runner, christopher nolan, cinema, cinematography, essay, film, gabriel gane, grand budapest hotel, harry potter, high rise, hitchcock, hogwarts, inception, mini click, miniclick, movie, movies, nostromo, pevsner, photo, photography, phsycho, rear window, ridley scott, star wars, the shinig, writing
A few years ago, Alma Haser and Emily Macaulay met at a Miniclick event. Through a mutual love of paper engineering, a unique collaboration began around Alma’s Cosmic Surgery portraits. Now an entire world has been imagined, and the Cosmic Surgery team are looking for help to fund a second edition of the book on Kickstarter. We spoke to Emily about the world they’ve created, the nature of collaborating and what to expect from the new book… Cosmic Surgery […]
Categories: WRITING • Tags: alma haser, book, collaboration, cosmic surgery, emily macaulay, interview, josh emerson, kickstarter, miniclick, piers bizony, pop up, portrait, portraits
Documentary film making is in the midst of something a renaissance at the moment. Most notably, Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos’ Making of a Murderer sparked as much of a buzz, and as many water-cooler conversations, blog posts and tweets as any blockbuster has over the last couple of months. In search of the truth, how much is the viewer being manipulated? Our new columnist, film maker and editor Gabriel Gane, takes a look at the tools the film maker (and Werner Herzog in […]
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