Happy Monday; immerse your workday and soundscape in Severance

To aid in your professional merriment, here’s a complete round-up of Severance stuff, from behind-the-scenes discussion of the show’s sound design and score to an eight-hour mix of “music to refine to.”|

How Latvia’s Flow used open source Blender in Oscar animation win

Flow was the surprise of the Oscars: a true underground hit from Latvia’s writer/director Gints Zilbalodis. It’s beautiful, expressive, and intimate in a way that big-studio features are not. And it’s a triumph of making the tech operate on a human level, fully exploiting the free and open source Blender and its real-time render engine EEVEE.

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2025

A Dreamy Video, Remix with Loscil, and Other Christina Vantzou Gems

You know that feeling, on a hot day, of someone running an ice cube down the back of your neck? Or perhaps, going deeper, the dream of plunging into a frozen lake? That visceral, primeval emotion, that chill that prickles the hairs on your head – that might start to describe the eerily-lovely wonderlands of […]

- July 22, 2014

Google Maps, Brought to Life, as Human Movement Occupies Digital Space

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2012

150 Years Later, Georges Méliès Would Find an Age of Illusion

Peter Kirn - December 13, 2011

Motion Candy: A Dull Road Trip Becomes Elegant, Subtle Short Cinema in 'Sisters'

Peter Kirn - September 30, 2011

Motion Candy: A Dull Road Trip Becomes Elegant, Subtle Short Cinema in ‘Sisters’

Peter Kirn - September 30, 2011

Images from the Dawn of Kodachrome Color Film, and Keeping the Dream Alive

Peter Kirn - August 25, 2010

One-minute Short Films on Canon 5D, Like Love Poems to Photography

Peter Kirn - July 28, 2010

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