Commentarium, our film review website, is back! And this time it’s staying. Expect one update per day – sometimes it will be just a small thought or discussion topic or link, other times it will be long and detailed reviews or articles. It shall be fun! So what are we restarting with? Well, what else? [...]
Commentarium Strikes Back
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/09/03/commentarium-strikes-back/
Yes?
I’m still here. Working very hard on creative things and being entirely too obsessive. Will be able to reveal more soon, I hope. Financially everything is still shit, so any donations (even if only of a few dollars) are greatly appreciated. But creatively things are mostly good. Rejections for short stories suck and no book [...]
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/08/15/yes-2/
Parallel Lines: Echoes and Awakening
Our two short films for the Parallel Lines competition are up. (Both have the same dialogue, because that’s the point of the competition.) The first one is a question. The second one is an answer, but not necessarily to the same question. There are connections. Please watch them, like them, and share them with your [...]
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/08/10/parallel-lines-echoes-and-awakening/
is update
Despite a couple of minor hiccups, good progress is being made with the two short films, and we should be able to enter the competition with two respectable, even cool entries. None of us are expecting even remotely to win – given that we are certain to be up against people (i.e. film students) with [...]
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/08/04/is-update/
exhaustion
Finished filming another short; also edited the previous one. Results are looking good. More editing tomorrow. Lack of sleep is evident in short sentences. Cat is making typing difficult by headbutting me.
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/08/02/exhaustion/
Linkies!
Gnome’s Lair has published a really nice review of Phenomenon 32: Phenomenon 32, being Kyratzes’ most ambitious project so far, is much more than the sum of its parts. Besides the beautiful black and white visuals, its atmospheric soundscape and a deeply depressing and simultaneously surreal game world, Phenomenon 32 is an incredibly immersive experience, [...]
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/07/03/linkies/
Art Without Teeth
One of the biggest problems art is facing today is the definition of art in people’s minds. Too many people have been misled into believing that truly good art must consist of ambiguous abstractions that are somehow “timeless” – that art must be exclusively introspective, lacking context, and dedicated solely to celebrating the inability to [...]
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/07/01/art-without-teeth/
On the subject of video game movies
Things have been a little quiet at Commentarium recently, mostly because we’ve been very busy working. I know some people are still waiting for my long-delayed (and very long) Avatar article, though right now I’m considering waiting until the re-release in August. We’ll see. It’s still very important to me. Anyway, we’ve got a new [...]
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/06/08/on-the-subject-of-video-game-movies/
On the subject of Richard Donner
We just published a new article at Commentarium. It’s about Richard Donner, director of iconic movies such as The Omen, Lethal Weapon, The Goonies, Ladyhawke and Superman. His is really a case of the work overshadowing the man; he gets very, very little critical appreciation, even though his movies have shaped entire generations. (They also [...]
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/05/01/on-the-subject-of-richard-donner/
Kittendragons, games, and other things.
I’ve made some real improvements to some of the levels in Phenomenon 32. This makes me very happy; they just didn’t feel right before, and now they do. Tomorrow I’ll add a couple more areas. Then I’ll playtest the game and see if the new numbers work. And then it might be done. We saw [...]
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/04/07/kittendragons-games-and-other-things/






