Creative Source

Felipe Barral Momberg is a Chilean artist. He is a writer, musician, artist, photographer, producer & filmmaker. An iPoet. Has a Master degree in Philosophy and is also a journalist. He lives in the United States and is working as an Assignment Editor/Producer in CNN en Espa ol in Atlanta, where he also hosts and produces a weekly segment called Juego de Palabras (Play on Words). He covers art, culture & literature, interviewing artists and doing packages that air in shows within CNN en Espa ol. He has produced documentaries for that channel as well. The balance between art and reality have become the source of his ideas. At an early age he start developing his own voice in colors, music and words. In a certain way, he recovered the vision of Leonardo da Vinci about the man like a complete being; a creative being able of the unthinkable thing. He express himself through his poems and novels, his music and his paintings, creating multimedia as well.

A full week of buzzing digital media creation will be showcased starting Tuesday, January 15th through Monday, January 21st 2008, at several venues downtown Chicago. Check out http://www.mgFest.com for the most current festival information. MGFest 08 features two world-premier theater screenings, multiple post-production studio tours, audio/visual art exhibits, a/v performances, six days of motion design / sound design / and motion programming classes. These events celebrate creative minds and bright ideas within the emerging media landscape. The Motion Graphics Festival begins a tradition of full-scale environmental design, bringing together a massive range of creative talents to inspire, awe, and activate your mind.. whether you're a hard-core geek, a dedicated composer, a designer, film-maker, artist, engineer, programmer, educator or just someone who likes being close to the creative community. This video intro is a core part of mgFest, in 2008 the traditional is carried forward by Lift Motion Design Studio and Creative Chaos. The source footage was shot at Foundation Post, and the music was designed by The Great Mundane. http://www.LiftMotion.com http://www.Psymbolic.com/the_great_mundane ( Design | Sound | Code ) .: in motion http://www.mgFest.com

Meredith Monk: Inner Voice -- Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director, choreographer and creator of new opera, films and installations. She has been proclaimed as a magician of the voice and one of Americas coolest composers. This film follows Monk in the development of her newest project Songs of Ascension. Inner Voice sets out to locate the motivation and source of Monk's creative force.

Art & Copy reveals the stories behind and the personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of our time and their campaigns, including Lee Clow (Apple Computer 1984, and today s iPod); Dan Wieden ( Just Do It ); Phyllis K. Robinson (who invented the me generation with Clairol); Hal Riney (who helped President Reagan get re-elected); and George Lois (who saved MTV and launched Tommy Hilfiger overnight). Directed by Doug Pray, Art & Copy captures the creative energy and passion behind the iconic campaigns that have had a profound impact on American culture. Featuring rare interviews with the aforementioned industry legends, the film seeks to identify the elements that transform an slogan into a pop culture catch phrases. The movie was filmed and edited during a four-year period and had an unusual source for its funding -- The One Club, a non-profit organization dedicated to the craft of advertising headquartered in New York.

Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow stars in Sylvia as legendary American author and poet Sylvia Plath, opposite Daniel Craig as British Poet Laureate Edward (Ted) Hughes. Sylvia explores the source of creative genius, and love in all its passions. Ted and Sylvia were a sensual, volatile, and brilliant married couple who emerged as two of the most influential writers of the 20th century. The film begins in 1956. Sylvia is in England on a Fulbright Scholarship when she meets Ted. The attraction is immediate and mutual. It is a meeting not only of the minds, but of an intense physicality as well. Within four months, they are married. When her studies are completed, Sylvia is offered a teaching post back in America. She accepts, and the couple relocates. A working wife, Sylvia must also tend to her unique voice or risk losing it. The newly published Ted attracts the attention of the literary world, along with the attentions of admiring women. Retuning to England in the late 1959, Sylvia and Ted attempt to renew their commitment, first with the birth of one child and then another. But as the marriage frays anew and Ted's literary stature overshadows her own, Sylvia's creative impulses surge. She funnels her fury and passion into her work, and her writing begins to flow forth in unstoppable bursts. 'I really reel like God is speaking through me,' she exults. Her destiny -- and Ted's, inextricably intertwined with hers -- is at hand...