Al Dente

Taking place in a colorful and musical universe, “Al Dente” is a short film which tells us the story of a little street girl discovering the magic and the dangers of an ogre’s kitchen.

Directed by Jean-François Barthelemy, Maël François and Carlos Felipe Leon Ortiz, students of Supinfocom.

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The Dark Knight (kids version)

If these kids seriously made this, that is impressive. So much fun.

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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.

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Eat Dog Cat Mouse

A frantic tale of revenge and relentless eating: before Mouse finds a way to delicious cornfield, it’s eaten by Cat, with dire consequences for the food chain.

A short movie made by Kwok Fung Lam for the 2005 edition of Mesh.

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Japanese Biwa Player

Japanese biwa player performing Dan-no-ura, a song about the last battle between the Heike and Genji clans.

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Activism

Short film made for the SVT (Swedish national television) fashion show Velvet.

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Grace Jones - Corporate Cannibal

Molten, hell, corporate.

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Ten Kens - Bearfight!

Boy! It gets your blood boiling. Though there are quite a lot of intellectual ideas hiding underneath the surface, it remains visceral.

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Youtube audition gone wrong

The perils of promoting oneself.

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Steven Spielberg - Amblin’ (1968)

Spielberg’s first 35mm film. From Binary Bonsai

Spielberg himself doesn’t think much of the film, calling it “a great Pepsi commercial” with as much soul and content as a piece of driftwood.”, which would explain why it hasn’t seen commercial release.

Like many first films by filmmakers, it is largely silent. And shallow but in a very cute way. How can you not love these people. 

If this was made by anyone else, I probably would not have made it to the end but…

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Sockbaby

I wish all action movie trailers were this much fun. And have you ever seen a trailer to have sequels, well this one does.

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Fucking Hell

Slow tracking shots through hellish scenes. The ending is mysterious and resonant.

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Clear Skyes in May

Ukiyo-e is a short film from Anny Suzuka, a Japanese motion director and founder of ANNY studio.

More informations on Motionographer.

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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.

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