Nick Toti Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/nick-toti/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:09:19 +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 Nick Toti Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/nick-toti/ 32 32 Nick Toti’s Digital Gods – Season 2, Transmission Seven https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/digital-gods-best-of-2018/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:38:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30546 (HtN’s Nick Toti chimes in with his “Best of 2018” list. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month to help keep us going?) I’m going to break from my usual format for this article. […]

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]]> 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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]]> A Conversation with KOKOFREAKBEAN https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/kokofreakbean-interview/ Wed, 10 May 2017 19:45:07 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28098 Introductory Note: Kokofreakbean (read my adventure with him here) is a contradiction. He is simultaneously both guarded and incredibly candid, sometimes alternating from one to the other without warning. It makes interviewing him both exciting and frustrating. These same emotions […]

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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 Seven.Five https://www.hammertonail.com/slideshow/digital-gods-seven-five/ Mon, 09 Jan 2017 17:53:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27367 (If you didn’t read the previous Digital Gods entry on Michael Salerno’s Kiddiepunk Cartoons, you should probably read it now or watch the series before reading Nick Toti’s interview with series creator Michael Salerno the second half of which is below. The […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Transmission Seven https://www.hammertonail.com/slideshow/digital-gods-transmission-seven/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 04:06:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27361 (If you didn’t read the previous Digital Gods entry on Michael Salerno’s Kiddiepunk Cartoons, you should probably read it now or watch the series before reading Nick Toti’s interview with series creator Michael Salerno the first half of which is below.) […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Transmission Six https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/digital-gods-transmission-six/ Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:11:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27311 (Nick Toti analyzes the year’s strangest documentary series. Kiddiepunk Cartoons a surreal and deeply obsessive investigation of the psychic aftermath of a massive tornado in Oklahoma.) “Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a […]

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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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