Undone
An elderly man fishing on a tempestuous sea is a metaphor for loss of memory and loss of self. As everything he tries to “catch” slips through his fingers, so too the world slips away and he becomes undone.
A short film by Hayley Morris, Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance 2009.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
(via Cartoon Brew)
2010 Oscar nominees for best animated shorts
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
French Roast
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Logorama
via Cartoon Brew.
Greedy Boy
Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No
Fantastic story. The official website.
Procrastination
This isn’t ten ways to quit procastinations or whatever. It is more valuable than that.
Concrete Jumble: Midtown Twist
Interesting video series from NYtimes.
An animated look — through the eyes of artist Gary Leib — at the characters, creatures and events that have contributed to the history of Midtown Manhattan.
Typophile Film Festival 5: Opening Titles
If eyes are meant for seeing
then beauty is its own excuse for being.
“Visual typographic feast about the 5 senses, and the way they contribute to enhance our creativity.”
Made by BYU design students for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. Creative director: Brent Barson. Everything in the film is real: no digital visual effects.
Watch it. (MPEG-4)
Arjuna the Archer
Arjuna the Archer is a short animation directed by Eriyat Suresh at Famous Animation and based on a concept by Senthil Kumar at JWT.
Dear Alphabet
“Dear Alphabet” is a short film by Marina Budovsky, an experimental cartoon about a girl and what happens when a monster eats her mother. When she still cannot escape the depths of chaos, a magnificent storm washes her sadness away.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
Sean Pecknold directs another classic for Fleet Foxes (the last one won the Best Music video of 2008). Two triangles is all it takes to create an epic drama.
Watch the video & here is the making of.
Edicisum
Eerie abstractness in this short movie (and/or music video for Isambard Khroustaliov’s Musicide) directed by Candas Sisman.
Watch Edicisum. (MPEG-4)
Bowerbirds – In Our Talons
The video takes the visual spectacle of a nature documentary and puts it into a stop-motion animated world. We explore 3 magical creatures from 3 different lands, equally beautiful yet doomed by the hand of man.
Music video directed by Alan Poon and produced at Circle. Director of photography: Adam Makarenko.
Watch it. (MPEG-4)
Shiva
An old man, and his xoloscuincle dog, accidentally fall in a hidden magic forest which turns out to be the devil’s cave.
The music video is a collaboration between director and illustrator Alberto Cerriteño with animator and designer Diego Huacuja.
Watch it. (MPEG-4)
The Parable About the Mouse
In allegorical form, the film tells about spiritual enlightenment. The heroine of the film, the Mouse, owing to meetings with the Raccoon, the Frog, the Bison, and the Bear, changes spiritually. And the meeting with the Eagle changes her essence.
A short film by Elena Gavrilko and based on “motives of a fairy tale of the North-American Indians”.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
thanks to Niffiwan
Flowerpot
Beautifully illustration. Almost like a cleaner version of flip book created on the corner of a notebook.
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