Graffiti and outdoor paintings using drones

DJI - Peugeot Drone Film Festival 2019 - Winner Video

 

Abe Karem - The Father of The Predator UAV

It was almost inevitable that Mr Karem would become an aerospace engineer. He built model aircraft at school, inspired by a teacher who had flown in a British Lancaster bomber during the second world war. Mr Karem went on to study aeronautics at Technion, Israel’s prestigious Institute of Technology, and then joined the Israeli Air Force. 

Within 13 years of graduating, Mr Karem had completed and deployed 16 projects, mostly conversions of jet fighters to add new weapons or capabilities. “In Israel at that time, we averaged six months from an idea to completion of flight testing,” he says. “Military programmes in the United States now typically take over 20 years to achieve first operation.” 

Mr Karem also built his first drone. During the Yom Kippur war of 1973, Israeli fighter-bombers attacking Egypt and Syria were being stopped by Russian-made air defences. Israel needed a fast decoy drone to activate the defensive radar systems, so they could then be hit using anti-radiation missiles. Mr Karem’s team designed, built and flew such a drone in just one month.

When Mr Karem arrived in America from Israel in 1977, the Pentagon had almost given up on robotic planes. At the time its most promising UAV, the Aquila, needed 30 people to launch it, flew for just minutes at a time and crashed on average every 20 flight hours. “It was insanity itself,” says Mr Karem. “It was obvious to me they were going to crash because they had 30 people doing something that could be done better by three.” 

Critically the drone, code-named Albatross, was developed by a handful of engineers, and operated by a team of just three. “Doing things with the absolute smallest team increases the chance that you’re not going to screw up,” says Mr Karem. “Nothing replaces highly talented people—white-hot passionate thinkers in love with doing challenging things.” 

After a flight test during which Albatross remained aloft for 56 hours, DARPA, the research arm of America’s armed forces, funded Mr Karem to scale it up into a more capable drone called Amber. It, in turn, evolved into the modern Predator.

Mr Karem founded a company, Leading Systems, in the garage of his Los Angeles home and began work on a drone that would ultimately transform the way America wages war. It was built in an intentionally low-tech manner, using plywood, home-made fibreglass and a two-stroke engine of the kind normally found in go-karts. “I wanted to prove that performance is largely a result of inspired design and highly optimised and integrated subsystems, not the application of the most advanced technology,” he says...full article

Genesis of the Predator UAV

The Man Who Invented the Predator

New York City Drone Film Festival winners

2019 #NYCDFF WINNERS

EXTREME SPORTS CATEGORY

GOOD MORNING

by RICHARD PERMIN, MAXIME MOULIN & ANTOINE FRIOUX

New York City Drone Film Festival

 

2019 #NYCDFF WINNERS

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MOABLASTER 2 - THE STORM by AIRBLASTR

The Madrid Drone Film Festival

Drones have become a force to be reckoned with in the film industry. This festival will showcase the incredible work that can be accomplished using this technology from around the world.

2D RUN - Mixed Motion Project

2D RUN - Mixed Motion Project, Ilko Iliev [Bulgaria] - Award in 2017 annual Flying Robot international Film Festival in San Francisco.

 

James Bridle’s Drone Shadows

 

 

   

   

   

 

Lightening Bug drone from Vietnam war and Jaws movie poster

 

Lightening Bug drone and Jaws movie poster

Boston Drone Film Festival - 2019 GRAND PRIZE WINNER

 

                                 

Fiona Banner - Scroll Down and keep Scrolling Experience

The video is simply of a journal left in a street and its browsing journey with wind generated by a drone which hover above. In the gallery, it was a huge video projection that occupied big part of the wall.

 

seagulls by Mato Atom

This short film from Mato Atom is a metaphor for the dangerous side of drones. disturbing not simply because of the future it depicts, but because of the unsettling imagery used to paint it. Narrated in missives from a drone, the flying eye in the sky proves to be stalking a young girl, watching her grow into a young woman and then confronting her on the beach.     

Grounded - play

An unexpected pregnancy ends an ace fighter pilot’s career in the sky. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away.

Anne Hathaway as The Pilot in George Brant's "Grounded"

bitplane by Bureau of Inverse Technology

A radio-controlled airplane, equipped with a video camera and transmitter was launched, In 1997, on a series of sorties over the Silicon Valley in California. 

Guided by the live video feed from the plane, the pilot on the ground was able to steer the plane deep into the glittering heartlands of the Information Age. They were critiquing the economics of the area, the infrastructure of technology, the sites where secret research takes place, the locales where aircraft systems are thought-up and built. 

The bitplane sidestepped regulations.It was illegal to fly remotely controlled aircraft within 5 miles of an airport. There were 3 airports within 5 miles of the bitplane flight path. The bitplane also violated FCC communications regulations by transmitting live video on a cable television channel, which somewhat brilliantly, inserted the bitplane‘s “gods-eye view” of the Silicon Valley into the regularly-scheduled television viewing of the households below its flight path. 

The bitplane exposed layers of policing and control over what seemed to be transparent airspace. Bureau of Inverse Technology‘s work revealed the growing capabilities of UAV technologies, but also uses these very capabilities to turn the gaze towards the manifucturers and users of these devices. 

 This is a classic act of tactical media, a form of activist art practice, that goes beyond mere revelation, and actively intervenes within a system deemed to be morally, politically or ethically problematic.

source: Unmanned Aerial Ecologies: proto-drones, airspace and canaries in the mine

''The Giver'' [2014]

''The Giver'' [2014] is dystopian film, where drones monitor citizens and inform them of rule-breaking.

''Drones'' [2013]

Drones is a 2013 American thriller film. Two Airmen are tasked with deciding the fate of a terrorist with a single push of a button. As the action plays out in real time, their window to use a deadly military drone on the target slowly closes. With time running out, the Airmen begin to question what the real motives are behind the ordered lethal attack.

    

Mohajer [1990]

Iranian movie - A man who controls small airplanes to detect Iraq's front line is put in jeopardy of not being able to return.

  

 

Full Contact (2015

French drone pilot flies drones in the Middle East from Nevada in the United States. He carries out a drone strike on a building to kill a terrorist inside, but he discovers afterward that the building was a school for boys.

Force Majeure [2014]

In the Swedish film, a family of four on a ski trip bring with them a toy drone. In a dramatic scene, the drone's appearance invokes a comical feeling to break the heavy social pressure of the scene.

''Domino'' [2019]

''Domino'' is a 2019 crime thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, who was not happy of the shortened final result. It tells the story of a police officer, who chase in Europe after a Daesh mega terrorist, who shoots videos of his suicide bombers for media distribution and uses a drone for it. 

Hover (2018)

'Hover' Review | Hollywood Reporter

''Stealth'' [2005]

 

Stealth is a 2005 American military science fiction action film. The film follows three top fighter pilots as they join a project to develop an automated robotic stealth aircraft. 

Rotor DR1 (2015)

 

Rotor DR1 is a 2015 science fiction film. The film star is a teenager looking for his missing father in post-apocalyptic world where autonomous drones roam the skies.     

    

Unmanned: America's Drone Wars [2013]

Wikipedia - The film highlights the stories of 16-year-old youth killed by a drone in 2011, and  a school teacher, whose mother was killed and children hospitalized due to a drone strike in 2012. 

Unmanned includes more than seventy interviews. Prominent among these are a former American drone operator, Pakistani families of drone victims who are seeking legal redress, high ranking politicians and some of the military’s top brass, warning against blowback from the loss of innocent life. 

With the intent of humanizing those who have been impacted by US drone policy, Unmanned intersperses these interviews with never-before-seen footage from tribal regions in Pakistan. 

The film claims that covert military drone strikes are often imprecise, and result in creating more enemies for the American people, who have little knowledge of how drone victims are targeted and killed.