Digital Gods Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/digital-gods/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:03:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Digital Gods Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/digital-gods/ 32 32 Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Four https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/digital-gods-2-4/ Wed, 01 Aug 2018 16:09:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29943 For those readers who have been following Digital Gods since the beginning, the DIY auteur Zachary Oberzan isn’t a new discovery. I covered his work at length in one of my first articles for this column, choosing him for the […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission One https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/digital-gods2-1/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:56:29 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29801 Welcome back, faithful Digital Gods readers! For those of you new to the column, I started writing it in 2016 after I’d noticed a gap in the film criticism I was reading on almost every indie film website. Everyone seemed […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Transmission Nine https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/digital-gods-9/ Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:17:09 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27588 (“Digital Gods,” Nick Toti’s outstanding series on underseen digital films and filmmakers continues with a road trip to Vegas to hang out with the…errr…enigmatic Kokofreakbean.) Everything about the maximalist, dada, chaos-priest animator Kokofreakbean is designed to short-circuit intellectual engagement. His […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Transmission Eight https://www.hammertonail.com/slideshow/digital-gods-8/ Tue, 17 Jan 2017 22:47:29 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27400 (“Digital Gods,” Nick Toti’s outstanding series on underseen digital films and filmmakers continues with a deep dive into the amazing work of filmmaker, dancer, choreographer and all around unique individual, Celia Rowlson-Hall.) Celia Rowlson-Hall is the kind of person that you […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Transmission Three.Five https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/digital-gods-transmission-three-five/ Tue, 01 Nov 2016 15:33:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27175 (Here’s part 2 of Nick Toti’s interview with Zachary Oberzan about his life, his work, and the solemn meditative qualities of popular culture. Much like his movies, Oberzan’s answers range from the uncomfortably candid to the bizarre. Topics covered include: working in […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Transmission Three https://www.hammertonail.com/slideshow/digital-gods-transmission-three/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:43:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27117 (In this follow-up to the last Digital Gods entry, Nick Toti interviews Zachary Oberzan about his life, his work, and the solemn meditative qualities of popular culture. Much like his movies, Oberzan’s answers range from the uncomfortably candid to the […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Transmission Two https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/digital-gods-transmission-two/ Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:36:58 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27069 (Nick Toti analyzes the work of indier-than-you mega-stud Zachary Oberzan. Since the 2010 release of his one-man re-imagining of Rambo: First Blood, Oberzan’s DIY cinematic epics have been vastly under-seen and underappreciated. Click through to read (and then watch!) what […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Transmission One https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/digital-gods-1/ Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:26:56 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27031 (Nick Toti fights off the creeping dread of cinematic disillusionment with the hope he’s discovered in the margins of life online. In our new column “Digital Gods,” Toti shares his latest/favorite discoveries and unpacks their various qualities. Fans of the […]

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