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Dear Steamers, Questa settimana Steampunk Italia vi segnala la notizia di un nuovo cortometraggio italiano in lavorazione. KALISTA, questo sarà il titolo del corto con ambientazione steampunk post-apocalitico, (more…)
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From the site Quite Earth, we’ve got a taste of the concept trailer of a film called Oculista, that we hope will see the light soon. It is a steampunk fairy tale, a mysterious travel inside a factory in which workers ride bicycles powering something unknown; in exchange they receive “hypnotic leisure experiences” with the promise to live in the city of their dreams.
Here’s a short description of the trailer:
“Henri Grotowski looks out of the window of an old train speeding through the night with the excitable naivety of someone who has left his small town to make his fortune in the big world; on his lap a battered suitcase and a portable Gramophone. Instead of the ticket inspector, Henri is visited by the mysterious Oculista who offers Henri a look through his magical glasses…”
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A film that is visually stunning and emotionally and based on children’s book by Brian Selznick’s “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, winner of the Caldecott Medal in 2008.
Hugo, Martin Scorsese‘s latest film, tells the story of the orphan Hugo Cabret, son of a watchmaker, who lives in the depths of a railway station in Paris of the ’30s, where he repaired watches and observes the lives and loves of people coming and going. His dream is to be able to repair an automaton left him as inheritance from his father, tragically missing in a fire. Hugo, alone and bitter, concentrated all his efforts on this clockwork doll, shabby but ingeniously elegant, until his destiny crosses the one of the station’s toy store owner and his goddaughter Isabella.
Hugo, masterfully played by Asa Butterfield (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas), is in equal parts a little abandoned orphan and a bold and admirable survivor. On Butterfield’s shoulders rest the kaleidoscope of emotion of the whole film and the young actor shines of its own light.
Each of the characters found in Hugo reminds to the audience that, in one way or another, we all like broken clocks, and in the end, all we have are the others. Our daily struggle is to overcome our past and not give in to pain.
Scorsese delivers this message in a stunning beauty, painted with a palette of colors perfectly balanced between brass and steam, sun and snow, in direct contrast with the black and white illustrations on the book by Selznick. The constant movement of gears and pendulums in the world of Hugo mingle with the unstoppable emotions of the boy up to imitate the most fascinating pantomimes of silent film’s era. There is no dialogue really necessary, messages come clearly through an experience extraordinarily delicate and relaxing.
Is it Steampunk? Probably, but without the exaggerated tones like “Look at me, I’m a Steampunk film!”
Scorsese, staunch supporter of the preservation of film heritage, pays homage to the masters of early movies through his love letter to the past using the most futuristic and cutting-edge techniques such as 3D. Whether you are orphans or artists, the themes of this delicate film will strike your heart as to say that we are all irreplaceable many small gears of this great clock called existence.
“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and types of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason, too.” Hugo
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The Witches of Oz is a television mini-series directed by Leigh Scott, based on the novels The Wizard of Oz, Ozma of Oz, The Road to Oz, and The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
The Witches of Oz follows the exploits of a grown Dorothy Gale, now a successful author of children’s books and his journey from Kansas to New York City. Dorothy quickly realizes that his popular books are based on repressed memories of childhood, and that the wonders of Oz are very, very real. When the Wicked Witch of the West comes to Times Square, Dorothy must find the inner courage to stop it.
Special mention to the actor Christopher Lloyd (the legendary Doc of Back to the Future) in his steam interpretation of The Wizard of Oz, nestled between gears and strange mechanisms.
The series was released recently overseas, we hope will come soon here.
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The renowned director Peter Jackson (Bad Taste, Brain Dead, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, King Kong) has acquired the rights to Temeraire, a series of nine books by Naomi Novik set in an era where alternative Napoleonic battles are fought on armed aerial dragons.
In addition, between one take and the other on the set of The Hobbit, the director is working with Weta Workshop on a film adaptation of Mortal Engines, the first novel of a post-apocalyptic tetralogy written by Philip Reeve. The series is set in a future where self-propelled cities travel the world eating up the resources of the smaller towns, according to a system called Municipal Darwinism.It’s not clear whether Jackson will work only as director or he will also produced these movies, the thing that interests us most is that these novels have a Steampunk ground behind them.
The idea of seeing a great city move on belts is exciting, stay tuned!
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Che la scena Steampunk preferisca muoversi secondo canali indipendenti non è affatto una novità, anzi. Fa parte dell’impronta stessa di questa cultura. Ecco perché spesso le opere e i lavori più rappresentativi, anche fuori dall’Italia, provengono da iniziative personali o collettive, ma sempre al di fuori dei grandi canali commerciali.
In questo caso, Douglas Sanders, creativo di The Little Steampunk Shop, ha scelto la formula del crowdsourcing per finanziare il proprio film indipendente. Il progetto ha bisogno di diecimila dollari per poter vedere la luce, ed è possibile contribuire anche con un dollaro.
Maggiori dettagli su questa produzione Steampunk sono disponibili sulla pagine ufficiale di Kickstarter del progetto, dalla quale è possibile raggiungere anche gli account sui diversi Social Network.
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The London-based Hammer Films has acquired the rights to the film adaptation of the award-winning novel Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, published in 2009 (still unreleased here in Italy).
In this “classic adventure of zombies and steampunk airships”, as defined on the cover, we are catapulted into an alternate version of 1880 in Seattle, walled city due to a toxic gas that has turned many of its inhabitants into zombies.
We will follow the adventures of a young widow searching for her teenage son in the underworld of Seattle, facing a powerful criminal boss, pirates of the sky and finally heavily armed refugees.
The film will be produced in collaboration with Cross Creek Pictures who also produced The Black Swan with Natalie Portman.
Tobin Armbrust, supervisor of the project development for Hammer Films, said: “First of all, this is a great story: bring to life a steampunk style novel on the big screen is something special and unique”.
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Directed by Joe Pearson and produced by Tripod Entertainment (the same company of the movie “Reign of Fire“) War Of The Worlds: Goliath is based on a story written by David Abramowitz, former creative consultant of the TV series Visitors and Highlander: the “immortal” actor Adrian Paul give his voice to the hero and narrator of the film.
Imagine Band Of Brothers that meets Star Wars in a steampunk Manhattan with huge steam-powered battle machines, half a kilometer long armed airships in the skies, cruel aliens, Victorian decor, blood, smoking metal and loves in the cockpits. This is War Of The Worlds: Goliath.
The story:
In 1899, the Earth was attacked by ruthless invaders from the planet Mars. The Martian’s 80 ft tall, heat-ray spewing, Tripod battle machines laid waste to the planet, but the invaders ultimately fell prey to Earth’s tiny bacteria.
Fifteen years later, Man has rebuilt his shattered world, in large part by utilizing captured Martian technology. Equipped with giant, steam-powered Tripod battle machines, the international rapid reaction force, A.R.E.S., is Mankind’s first line of defense against the return of the rapacious Martian invaders. Based in a massive fortress complex at the south end of Manhattan Island, the young warriors of A.R.E.S. train under the leadership of Secretary of War, Theodore Roosevelt, and the grim General Kushnirov.
And return the Martians do. The rematch finds the multinational squad of the A.R.E.S. battle Tripod “Goliath” on the front-lines of a vicious interplanetary offensive when the Martian invaders launch their second invasion using even more advanced alien technology. In the crucible of combat, this young team helming the mighty Goliath will be tested to the limits of their endurance and courage as they fight for Mankind’s very survival under the onslaught of an implacable enemy.
Currently in production, War Of The Worlds: Goliath will be released in 2012.
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