Ingenial

Five different short films, one dialogue. The rules: the short movie must have the following lines in it, “What is that?”, “It’s a Unicorn”, “Never seen one up close before”, “Beautiful”, “Get away”, and “I’m sorry”.

Here are the five movies, all great in their own way:

1. The Gift

2. El Secreto de Mateo

3. The Hunt

4. Jun and the Hidden Skies

5. Darkroom (rated R)

You can find out more about the project in this video:

“Life” is the new documentary film series created by the producers of the highly acclaimed film series “Planet Earth”. If a New York Times article detailing the care camera men took to film the series or this trailer are any indication the show should be incredible. Tune in to the Discovery Channel tomorrow at 8 PM eastern time to catch the first part.

Away from professional stadiums, bright lights, and manicured fields, there’s another side of soccer.  Tucked away on alleys, side streets, and concrete courts, people play in improvised games.  Every country has a different word for it.  In the United States, we call it “pick-up soccer.”  In Trinidad, it’s “taking a sweat.”  In England, it’s “having a kick-about.”  In Brazil, the word is “pelada,” which literally means “naked”—the game stripped down to its core.  It’s the version of the game played by anyone, anywhere—and it’s a window into lives all around the world.

Pelada is a documentary following Luke and Gwendolyn, two former college soccer stars who didn’t quite make it to the pros.  Not ready for it to be over, they take off, chasing the game.  From prisoners in Bolivia to moonshine brewers in Kenya, from freestylers in China to women who play in hijab in Iran, Pelada is the story of the people who play.

Movie trailer for the movie they’ve been releasing every single week since the 1980’s:

Ian Frazier wrote “Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father” in the spirit of the King James Bible’s list of rules. A sample of what waits in the video:

Various Other Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances Bite not, lest you be cast into quiet time. Neither drink of your own bath water, nor of bath water of any kind; nor rub your feet on bread, even if it be in the package; nor rub yourself against cars, nor against any building; nor eat sand. Leave the cat alone, for what has the cat done, that you should so afflict it with tape? And hum not that humming in your nose as I read, nor stand between the light and the book. Indeed, you will drive me to madness. Nor forget what I said about the tape.

Read the full transcript at The Atlantic

See the IMDB page for Alice in Wonderland.