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Forget the Films; Watch the Titles
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Home to some of the most innovative, imaginative, mind-blowing art, video and animation on the web, the Amsterdam-based SubmarineChannel.com recently launched a new endeavor, "Forget the Film; Watch the Titles," which features a hand-picked and fully copyright-protected collection of excellent trailer sequences – that means you won't see them anywhere else.
Intended as a long term project, "Forget the Films, Watch the Titles" is an ongoing initiative, with the organizers hoping to add more titles to the page in the coming weeks and months. Current highlights include Danny Yount's sixties-style animated graphic opener for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Shadowplay Studios' catchy cigarette-packaged sequence for Thank You for Smoking, and Paul Donnellon's '70s funk-inspired clip for the upcoming Smokin' Aces. Nicely packaged, the site also includes quotes from the sequence-makers about the creative process behind the clips.
So far, no groundbreaking Saul Bass sequences or classic 007 numbers. But organizers intend to go after them, they write: "It can take a lot of time to get permission from the copyright holders to show these title sequences. But we’re working on it!"
SubmarineChannel is both a distribution and production platform "for cross-media productions like short digital films, online games, interactive animations, web documentaries, online graphic novels and other hybrid monsters," as the site states. Cofounder Femke Wolting knows of which she speaks: She initiated the Exploding Cinema program at the annual Rotterdam Film Festival an annual look at the future of media, well before Web 2.0.
