“The first vignette from Instagram’s new miniseries Unbound, featuring music from David Bowie’s final album Blackstar, is as enigmatic as you’d expect from such a project. Before his death the British singer provided film-makers with unmediated access to the music and images from the album, with “no limits or preconditions”.” Read more here.
Four years on, our little film continues to find new audiences. This time, it is featured in the inaugural issue of Arthouse Quarterly. Dig it.
“The late David Bowie will be featured in an upcoming mini-series on a rather surprising platform. The famed artist’s company announced on Monday that Instagram will be the exclusive home to “Unbound: A Blackstar InstaMiniSeries.” The 16-episode mini-series will premiere on Instagram on Thursday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. EST. Bowie’s representatives say that the…
“David Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, has been reimagined as an Instagram series which will debut on the social networking site’s InstaMiniSeries channel Thursday. Unbound is made up of 16 episodes described as “visual interpretations” of the late Bowie’s songs. The Instagram team of Carolynn Cecilia and Nikki Borges were given pre-release access to the music…
Hot on the heels of five nominations at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival, it was revealed that UNBOUND took the laurel for Best Arthouse Film, the top prize at the event at their ceremony on October 20th. This statement was read at the Festival on behalf of the producers: Thanks first and foremost go to…
“…Unbound is almost interactive art in that it forces the viewer to do all the hard work. Instead of being a passive receptacle for information, we are forced to engage with the story, build hypothetical scenarios, ask questions, and just generally immerse ourselves in the world beyond the screen more intensely than we would otherwise….