Mürren to Birg
Time-lapse video of the cable-car ride from Mürren to Birg in Swiss canton Bern.
Published on 23rd September 2016
Star Trek Beyond
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first non-pilot episode of Star Trek. We saw Star Trek Beyond at the cinema yesterday and it was touching when we saw subtle tributes in the film and in the credits.
Published on 8th September 2016
New sales film from the Schilthorn
The Schilthorn Cableway has released a new short advertising film today, and as usual, it makes me want to head for Mürren straight away.
Published on 15th August 2016
Nature.Urban.Lights
It’s always nice to enjoy a time lapse sequence filmed in Swiss locations. Even more so to enjoy one filmed in places across the region I call home – Canton Bern.
Published on 12th May 2016
Raetia Prima – high-resolution aerial film of Graubünden
If you have a large monitor, use the options in the embedded video player to go full-screen and to switch to 4K (2160p) resolution. By Kevin Walker, via TechBlog.
Published on 15th March 2016
The evil of Hans Landa
Christoph Walz's masterpiece performance as a subtly menacing and monstrous S.S. officer in Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, from 2009.
Published on 5th March 2016
“Life of a Mountain: Blencathra” trailer
I enjoyed Terry Abraham’s earlier film “Life of a Mountain: Scafell Pike” a great deal, so when I saw that Terry was making a new film featuring Blencathra, I jumped at the chance to contribute through a Kickstarter campaign. I can’t wait…
Published on 26th February 2016
Processing time: 70 years
The Rescued Film Project discovers and processes 31 rolls of film shot by an American WWII soldier over 70 years ago.
Published on 19th February 2016
Alpine Paradise – Beatenberg
Completely inappropriate to the season, but what the heck. A beautiful sequence of clips filmed – mainly with a drone – in and above Beatenberg, looking over the lake shores I call home. The film was made by Maximilian Eckmann whilst staying in…
Published on 11th February 2016
Alain Laboile
Truly tremendous photographs by French photographer Alain Laboile. How is it that French (or French-speaking) people seem to have such interesting surroundings and an almost superhuman level of innate creativity?…
Published on 31st January 2016
Dear Zurich
A video love story for the well- and lesser-known corners of Zurich.
Published on 27th January 2016
Immersive 360° spherical video
Technology introduced by YouTube last year allows you to click, drag and change your point of view inside a video: watching the action and looking around the camera in any direction.
Published on 11th January 2016
7 videos in 7 days
For those who may have missed out: one of those meme things went around on Facebook and I posted a favourite video per day over 7 days. Stipe and co. in 1993, with reminiscences of So. Central Rain in their…
Published on 11th November 2015
Cable cars, funiculars and cog railways
Walking in the mountains is a great pastime, even if the weather isn’t great. But sometimes, getting to a mountain peak is a huge effort: even lesser summits than the four-thousand-metre monsters in canton Wallis are difficult to reach on…
Published on 10th November 2015
Kodachrome
When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school It’s a wonder I can think at all And though my lack of education Hasn’t hurt me none I can read…
Published on 24th October 2015
Silver and light
It's about doing what you love. If you'd been searching your whole life for something you love, and you found it, what would you be willing to sacrifice?…
Published on 17th September 2015
The four seasons of St. Niklaus
Beautiful time lapse sequences from canton Wallis (Valais) by filmmaker Christian Mülhauser.
Published on 2nd September 2015
Aerial sequence of Brighton’s West Pier
Filmed by Sam Moore of Visual Air, these are touching sequences of a structure which can't be much longer for this world.
Published on 26th August 2015
The Leviathan
Read more about this short film.
Published on 16th August 2015
Google Translate App
Mind: blown. The app isn’t anywhere near as snappy or as accurate as the “fun” promotional video would suggest, but it does optically recognize text in a foreign language of your choice and translate it live for you on your…
Published on 4th August 2015
Filming in the dark at 4,000,000 ISO
Canon's upcoming ME20F-SH can capture digital video at 4 million ISO. At a price.
Published on 31st July 2015
Terry Abraham’s wonderful outdoor films
Terry's videos make me want to turn off my computer and head for the British hills immediately: whether to a well-known place like the Lake District or to places which will be new to me.
Published on 23rd July 2015
Die Bergretter – Air Zermatt
Fast anderthalb Stunden in Begleitung der «Rotbiene»: der Rettungsdienst von Air Zermatt rund ums Matterhorn. Wenn ich mit 28 mit mehr Geld im Konto in die Schweiz gekommen wäre, wäre ich Helikopterpilot geworden. Weil meine Geschichte diesen Weg nicht folgte,…
Published on 19th July 2015
Science fiction, scary monsters and a know-it-all attitude
Doctor Who has been sending chills up my spine since I was a teenager. And the trailer for the next series looks as if it may be great. Although I agree with Thomas Capon: give the Daleks…
Published on 15th July 2015
The Great Escape
A lovely idea from Graubünden Tourism. Set up an interactive video advertisement in Zürich’s main station, showing what a beautiful part of the Alps you could end up in by just getting on a train. Then invite passers-by to join you by…
Published on 29th June 2015
20 days in Antarctica
Kalle Ljung and his father spent 20 days sailing through Antarctica last winter. They took a GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition mounted on a DJI Phantom 2 Quadrocopter with them, and this is the wonderful, beautiful film they…
Published on 16th June 2015
Country Feedback
An absolute, all-time favourite. Filmed for Later… with Jools Holland in 1998.
Published on 11th May 2015
Giessbach Falls in spate
The name “Giessbach” translates literally as “pouring stream”, and pour it does, magnificently and powerfully, when there is a lot of rain.
Published on 6th May 2015
Helvellyn with Mark Richards
Helvellyn – the third highest peak in the English Lake District and therefore the third highest in England – has long been a goal of mine. The peak draws me much more than the higher Scafells, with a famous ascent…
Published on 26th April 2015
Adobe integrates panoramic stitching in Lightroom CC
Cooing over the lovely new panorama stitching function in Adobe Lightroom 6.
Published on 23rd April 2015
Welcome to London
A wonderful, high-resolution hyperlapse video of London by Italian photographer Mattia Bicchi.
Published on 8th April 2015
Secret Britain
A new BBC travel programme seeks out lesser-known spots in the British Isles, starting this evening.
Published on 8th April 2015
Stormscapes
A timelapse film of giant storms over the American Mid-West.
Published on 24th March 2015
The Grey League
Filmed in the beautiful South East regions of the Swiss alps, this film features many classic landscapes of the majestic country of Switzerland. We were based in one the oldest towns in Graubünden, Chur, with a trip into…
Published on 17th March 2015
The Quest for Inspiration
This is the trailer for “La Quête d’Inspiration”, a documentary film by Mathieu Le Lay about the experiences in the wilderness of French landscape photographer Alexandre Deschaumes. You can purchase the full-length film at Reelhouse.
Published on 1st March 2015
Mind The Gap
If you can watch this video to the end without a tear in your eye, then you are tougher than I. It has reached the official selection for the 2015 London Short Film Festival and is based on a true…
Published on 27th February 2015
Travel many roads on many islands
A lovely video of a journey on the Isle of Skye by StokedEverSince, posted to Vimeo by Calum Creasey.
Published on 28th November 2014
Race The Tube
Visitors to London may expect that travelling by Tube is quicker than going on foot. It’s certainly quicker than travelling through London by taxi or by car. But is the train actually quicker than this athlete?…
Published on 12th November 2014
Danny Macaskill on the Cuillin Ridgeline
“The Ridge” is the brand new film from mountain-biker Danny Macaskill. For the first time in one of his films Danny climbs aboard a mountain bike and returns to his native home of the Isle of…
Published on 15th October 2014
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
I'm not especially knowledgeable about aircraft but there's something about plane flypasts which give me goosebumps.
Published on 21st September 2014
