Grave of the Fireflies on Netflix

We can now watch Studio Ghibli‘s arguably most sad and moving story, Grave of the Fireflies, on Netflix. So far, the film by Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata is only available on Hulu, which is not available in Europe.

The film, released in 1988, is set in Japan, in the last months of World War II. The film is based on a short story by Akiyuki Nosaka, telling his own experiences during the war. Brother and sister Seia and Setsuko lost their mother during the US firebombing of Kobe in 1945. They are taken care of by their aunt, but she doesn’t treat the children well. The kids decide to go and live in a cave they have discovered.

Like other Ghibli animation movies, this film is not a children’s movie. It is a lovely story that was beautifully made, yet it is a moving film about human survival and the devastating effects of war.

Grave of the Fireflies

The World Don’t Need No More Images

I have my photo-movie, The World Don’t Need No More Images (full of pictures), just about finished. The first episodes are on YouTube. Is it any good? Probably not. Does it raise a ripple? Unlikely. Is it fun to mix images and sound? Absolutely. Besides, it feels like it has to get out. In this form, this had to be tried and done because I have not seen anything similar done before.

And now: bye. Next.

Carters Beach

Today I created another photo-video in the New Zealand for Beginners series.

You can binge and follow the playlist here. I am working on the rest of the movies. 4 more weeks of travel to cover. Then Japan is the next playlist to finish.

Photo movies

I (re)started making picture movies from my photo projects. I publish them on my YouTube channel. It’s a kind of slide show, but I’m trying to make a bit more of it and augment pictures with some video I made during the photo shoots.

I started this before with low success but now decided to take this more systematically. Nobody seems to exhibit his photography products like this, at least not so systematically. The first new set I created during the Scotland trip. Created a separate playlist for this trip.

This weekend, I created a video using pictures I took during a business trip to New York City and upstate New York.

And I have a large backlog of similar trips. Having fun with this.

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Wellington picture-collage-video

In de serie New Zealand for Beginnners, maakte ik een nieuwe picture-collage video van ons verblijf in Wellington.

Gig report foto/videos

Gisteren twee video’s gemaakt van de beelden die ik bij optredens van punkbands, in juli en in september. Ik hoop dat de videos de energie doen voelen die bij deze concerten vrijkomt.

Urgent Kill, Dying for it, Tomar Control @ Manifesto, Hoorn:

Urgent Kill, Dying for it, Tomar Control @ Manifesto, Hoorn

Van Neistat, Tom Sachs

I absolutely love the YouTube channel of Van Neistat, The Spirited Man. Van is the older brother of Casey Neistat, and the more philosophical of the two. Van Neistat is a filmmaker and tinkerer. He received his training from Tom Sachs, a second discovery. Tom Sachs has a great channel on Vimeo called Tom Sachs. Binge-worthy.