Switch to fullscreen, it is gorgeous. Powerful stuff.

After hearing work from ‘The American Dollar’ we really felt the urge to create a music video for one of their new songs. Inspired by the music we had the idea of making a decaying world. One single cameramovement from left to right, showing a landscape, looping 9 times. Day becomes night and even the seasons go by. After we finished the production, we decided to reverse the whole video. This gives you a seamingly happy end, but you know what’s going to happen. There are no lyrics and we did not pay attention to the title of the song, we just felt this was the right thing to do.

(via Andy Coon)

I’ve slowly grown tired of timelapse videos, another pretty way to avoid saying anything or create anything within the viewer. However, even if it is just a small step away, this stunning video tries to overcome the prettiness by creating a complex portrait of Japan through mood and music.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Meanwhile, in the fictitious world…

Hello there!

Today, No Fat Clips!!! is celebrating the birth of Beakus — a new animation production company based in London — with a long series of posts. Here’s a little extra for Tickleboothers.

Steve Smith, founder of Beakus and previously at Sherbet and Trunk, wrote, designed and directed Stufffed, a five episode series for the web portal of BBC Comedy Extra. Episodes one and two are online; even though they’re about a kid and his teddy bear, you should better watch it in private, as the thumbnail above might have made you realize. Definitely not in the Playful Innocence category…

Watch Episode 1: Lady Bear Bear.

Watch Episode 2: Circus.

And then head over to No Fat Clips!!! for more Beakus, with the works of Bluna, Leigh Hodgkinson, Matthias Hoegg and more Steve Smith.

A series of five funny idents for television station Melody Aflam tells the truth behind Braveheart, Dances with Wolves, Titanic, Rocky and Seven.

Created at Leo Burnett. Directed by Mohamed Hamdalla at Lighthouse Film.

Watch ‘em.

I loved Goodbye Solo and Chopshop which Roger Ebert said was one of the top 10 films of the past decade. Here, Director Ramin Bahrani uses a plastic bag to tell an intricate story on dying and the environment. Legendary director Werner Herzog does the voice-over.

The rise and fall of the most influential music band of the 80s. Kind of.

Directed by So-Me and Machine Molle.

Watch I Think I Like U 2.

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