Neill Blomkamp

I've been a bit busy over the past few days and one of the reasons is our suddenly faster internet connection, gusting up to 900 kbps! Which means I can finally spend productive (heh heh) time on Google Video and YouTube. What I found is a startlingly good collection of films by a chap called Neill Blomkamp, a South African director who excels at short and ad films. He was tipped to do the Halo movie before it got shelved. Below I've added a set of thumbnail that lead to link in GV or YT... enjoy. His speciality is a combination of cinema verite and CG. Brilliant work, I thought. I could have embedded the vids, but I remember when I had slow connections... I hated people with blogs who regularly add video. That sucked. So I won't.

This is the famous Citroen C4 Dancer ad. Loved it.
Also look on YouTube/GVideo for the Ciroen C4 Skater and Citroen
2CV Spoof Dancer ads.

Neat, neat Nike Evolution ad for the latest shoe.
Graphics look superb.

Another imaginative Nike Crab Ad.
Features soccer playing crabs.

I'm told Adidas commissioned a series of short films, of which
Yellow was done by Blomkamp. Very nice, very real.

An office hires a robot to temp. TempBot tries his hand at work
and relationships with colleagues. Interesting

Supposed to be a successor/sequel to TempBot, Tetra Vaal
takes the TempBot robot to South Africa, as policemen.

And finally, my favourite, Alive in Joburg. I won't

tell you anything about it. Just watch it. It's brilliant stuff.

Screenshots collected from various sources for representational purposes. If anyone has any objectiosn please email me at rearsetblog[at]gmail.com.