Planet Galata – launched!

September 3, 2010

Florian’s gorgeous new k-film Planet Galata, created for the European television network ARTE, has just been launched. Congratulations Florian and everyone on his team in Istanbul. (Link here is to French version. German available on site with English to follow very soon.) Now available in German, French and English!

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Two musical k-films

August 10, 2010

Here’s news about two recent k-films produced by grad-students, one in Toronto, the other in London, both of them dealing with particular music scenes, but in very distinct ways. The first one, titled Not Just Boy’s Fun: The Rad Ladies Project (An interactive documentary), is an intriguing work by media maker Cynthia Shulak. It was [...]

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Happy birthday to us!

July 25, 2010

Korsakow 5 is one year old today.

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In development

July 4, 2010

We’re currently working on a new feature which should be ready for the next release of Korsakow. It’s an idea Florian came up with as he began work on his ARTE project in Istanbul. The goal is to provide a way for viewers of K-films to be able to leave comments on specific SNUs. Dave’s [...]

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Fragments (Ball/Descormiers/Madrid/Shahsiah)

May 7, 2010

This award-winning Korsakow film – an experimental narrative – was made in early 2009 using version 3, and is now finally available online, having been re-exported using version 5. It was created by four students in the Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University. While Fragments shares its title with Adrian Miles’ current k-film, the similarities [...]

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Article on Korsakow in the Concordia Journal

April 29, 2010

Intimate and interactive, by Anna Sarkissian, describes the genesis of Korsakow version 5, and offers perspectives from Monika, Florian and Matt.

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Version 5.0.4 released today.

March 29, 2010

Our new point release is packed with Korsakow goodness. Check the Download page for all the details. Highlights include: two new interface widgets (Playhead and Media Controls); the ability for viewers to link directly to specific SNUs in your k-films or even embed them; an alert if media assets can’t be found, and help relinking [...]

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New point release in next few days

March 24, 2010

We’re now a few days from our next point release (5.0.4), which includes several new features and fixes: a long-overdue .exe application download for Windows users; an inconspicuous playhead for SNU playback (thanks to Adrian Miles for the suggestion); a way to relink ‘lost’ media assets (ie files that have been inadvertently moved during production [...]

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2012 (and all that)

January 28, 2010

The Korsakow workshop held this past weekend at Concordia University was, by all accounts, a huge success. The participants came away with a much better sense of the possibilities offered by Korsakow, and we (the development team – Florian, Dave and Matt) got some valuable feedback in terms of the current strengths and weaknesses of [...]

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Fragments (Adrian Miles)

November 20, 2009

Adrian Miles is doing some really interesting stuff with Korsakow right now. In Fragments, he’s assembling a free-form ‘vog’ (video blog) of everyday video clips which has already expanded noticeably in its first week online. The loose associations between each SNU become apparent the longer you stay with it, and the use of allusive (one [...]

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