Lucy Lolly
Lucy is a girl who loves candy, especially Lolly pops. However, to the lolly this innocent, sweet little girl is a monster who slowly tortures the defenceless stick before crunching it into pieces.
A great escape story like no other, Lucy Lolly is a tooth rotting horror adventure that will make you think twice about playing with your candy.
Directed by Aaron Foster, this was the final major project for his BA Honors degree in Digital Animation at the South East Essex College.
Watch it. (Flash Video) – Official (mini)site
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Heaven Can Wait
Hollywood vs. New York
Fantastic stuff from Goodiebag.
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.
The Meaning of Life
Great opening. Not sure about the rest.
The Cask of Amontillado
To mark the bicentennial of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe: January 19th, 2009; this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s dark and twisted tale of vengeance… Produced and directed by Mario Cavalli.
Requiescat in pace.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Frontline – Inside the Economic Meltdown
I would embed this great documentary on what went down behind the scenes in the current economic depression but the interface is so damn good that I am just going to link it.
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)
Unlocked
Unlocked is the story of a teenager, Abby, coping with her mother’s terminal illness. When a charming man soliciting for cancer research stops her on the street, she sees in him someone who has shared her experience.
Directed by Daryl Wein.
Watch it. (Quicktime)
Liesje
A girl starts a battle with a city tyrant, without speaking a word…
Directed by Sander Alt. Animated at Urrebuk. Produced at Revolver.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Pièces détachées
Paul (Antoine Coesens Lazaro), an obsessive casino player, finds himself with lots of debts and it is threatened with death by Benjamin Stern (Jean Claude Dauphin), his creditor. His friends now refuse to lend any money, he then decides to commit the unthinkable: sell one of its organs [...] But by committing this act against nature, Paul puts his finger in a grim spiral that takes him to the borders of madness and death.
The short movie has been written and directed by Sébastien Drouin and produced by himself and Pierre Buffin at BUF.
The film is in French language, with no subtitles!
Gorbachev, Bigger and Russianer
Half Russian History allegory as told through an old zombie movie made in the Soviet Union, and half animated Soviet Propaganda posters.
A music video directed by Tom Stern for the Russian band AnJ.
Watch it as: MPEG-4 – Flash Video
Replay
Wonderful visual storytelling.
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)
William Lamson abstracts
I love this. Strong concept, simple but truthful execution.
Duel – The best ice cold western.
Emerge – The smallness of fame.
William Tell – Modern telling of the classic tale.
Vital Capacity – The struggle to maintain dreams.
Arrow Game – I want to play this game, however unsatisfying.
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