How Wings are Attached to the Backs of Angels
In this surreal exposition, an obsessive scientist strives for knowledge that seems reserved for powers higher than himself.
A short by Craig Welch produced by the National Film Board of Canada and featuring stunning black-and-white animation and a wordless story; won a Special Prize at the 2008 International Animation Festival in Japan.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Activism
Short film made for the SVT (Swedish national television) fashion show Velvet.
Download. (Quicktime)
via Manystuff.org
Grace Jones - Corporate Cannibal
Molten, hell, corporate.
She Who Measures
Are we truly free? Are our desires truly our own or merely imposed products of the society we live in?
“Film critics’ jury of the 32nd International animated film festival in Annecy (Nadezhda Marintchevska, Avedik Olohadjian and Doris Senn) has decided to give the prestigious FIPRESCI Award to Ona koja mjeri (in English: She Who Measures) by Veljko Popovic.”
The movie was developed at Lemonade 3D and produced by Kenges.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Pornstars in the wild!
If we can only be so lucky. Watch the Playstation ad.
Take Me Back (web series)
Ambitious series. Kinda Wes Anderson, kinda Charlie Kaufman. Feels like it is being pulled in many directions. Nevertheless, the story and cinematography are wonderfully engaging.
Take Me back Website (where you can watch all 10 episodes) - via Andy.
Orderly Confusion
Your daily WTF is Rob Bohn’s thesis film, like a Bill Plympton on acid.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
via Cartoon Brew
Todd Tinkham - Alexa
In many ways the film is a series of paintings strung up to tell a story. There are the talking hats, the underwater world, and then the touch. Beautiful. Evocative. Powerful.
MGMT - Time To Pretend
On first viewing, I reveled in the absolute freedom of the cheesy graphics. On second viewing, I paid attention to the lyrics and that blew me away. The yearning of adventure and mythology is so well captured in both the music and video. This is a great video. One of the year’s best, no doubt.
In
Tobias Stretch - Illuminant
One of the most visually striking films I have ever seen. Films are often described as dreamlike for a lack of words. Not the case with Illuminant which is certainly dreamlike. I don’t necessarily see my dreams in stop-motion but some of the imagery and feel of dreams would be impossible to recreate in another form.
Like dreams, some of the images from this film stick and others fade. Watching it again, I was once again surprised, reminded of why I loved it the first time. It begs to be seen over and over again. When the deer (?) drops the baby off, the camera movement following the deer and then back towards the wheelchair was beautiful. The snow, the face of the robot (?) and the glowing animal at the end are just tremendous. Everything screams originality here, the kind that comes from a deep creative force instead of a filmmaking sensibility.
Havaianas - Feet Want Out
The entire video is animated in the perspective of a foot. Sounds a little cheesy but it is amazing how much beauty this foot sees. Great graphics by Three Legged Legs. [All of this makes me sound like a podiatrist or someone with a foot fetish]
LoveLikeFire - “I Will”
The cinematography is simply wonderful. The multi-channel (split-screen) creates a rhythmic ripple that begs to be touched.
Beware of Space Bunnies
Suspicious squeak-toy operatives machinate candy-colored hijinks toward galactic dètente.
Or: the unbearable lightness of being random. Or: a short movie by: Peter J. Richardson.
Watch it on Vimeo (Flash) Or: Stage6 (DivX)
Ticklinks: Let the Music Start!
Are you ready to roll?
- Let’s heat things up with a video mash-up of The Simpsons vs Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit.
- And now, for a real deal, a percussions dueling between singer/songwriter Assaf Seewi on drums trading beats with beatbox champion Donny Rambles.
- Clair de Lune, based on Claude Debussy’s piano piece, a segment realized for Disney’s Fantasia and left out of the first release of the film.
- Your dessert: a Thanksgiving Mad TV sketch where James Brown and Kenny Rogers try to cook a turkey.
That’s it. Stay cool.
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