Thursday, October 23, 2014

The Birds of Spain



After many hours of hard work, throughout continental Spain (I leave the islands for the next time), I managed to edit this short film about the birds of my beloved country. Living and working in the richest European country regarding birds, I tried to film some of the Spanish specialities, mainly for non-Spanish birders. With so many different habitats and species, I had to move, driving to special locations sometimes separated more than 1000 km. The good thing was that after so many years bird watching and working with birds, I really knew pretty well where to look for...

Main locations:

- Riglos and Valle de Tena (Pyrenees, Huesca)
- Bardenas Reales (Navarra)
- Montes de Toledo and Andújar (Jaén)
- Albufera de Valencia and Dénia
- Tablas de Daimiel (Ciudad Real) and Doñana (Huelva)
- Coast of Murcia and Almeria

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Venice in a Day


A day in Venice (Venezia) in Italy, from daybreak to sunset in time lapse.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Bottled History


Ray Gascoigne has been around boats his whole life, as a shipwright, a merchant sailor, and now as a ship builder on the smallest dry dock there is: a bottle. This short film, by Smith Journal and Melbourne-based production studio Commoner, picks through the wood chips to tell the story of a craft honed over 60 years, and the man behind it.

Presented by Smith Journal, a quarterly Australian magazine for guys (smithjournal.com.au)

A film by Commoner (vimeo.com/commonerfilms)
Music by Ben Yardley

Monday, July 14, 2014