animation

Poetry of Perception by Nadja Oertelt & Caitlin Craggs

2015-11-15

 Brains and creative brawn! A lively and artful abstraction about that which is anything but abstract: our senses. This piece is animated by Cal Art’s Master of Mindbending, Caitlin Craggs, and is one very clever and tactile segment of a fascinating eight part multi-media (dimensional?) series. Read on to muse on Caitlin’s mysterious machinations and to hear from producer and Grand Perceiver Nadja Oertelt about the concept for these sublimely boundary pushing exploratory shorts for HarvardX, each with their own animator.

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Anomalisa by Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson

2015-11-08

“Michael Stone, an author of books on the subject of customer service, struggles with his inability to connect to people. One night, while on a routine business trip, he meets a stranger who changes his world view.” Acrobatically labyrinthine psychological musings that are as bleak as they are sweetly touching…what else would we expect from co-director Charlie Kaufman, writer of ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’, ‘Being John Malkovich’ and ‘Adaptation’?

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North by Josh Shaffner

2015-11-03

 A nice pared down atmospheric piece by Josh Shaffner, a music video for the song “North” by ‘fō. Light strobing with understated melancholic probing. The haunted geometric echoes of meaning are well suited to the song as is the slightly mechanical timepiece pacing. Although subtle, this short is rich in detail and ultimately organically flowing animation. Read on to see another nice piece by Shaffner, “The Rehabilitation of Sleep.” It reads like what might have happened if Hieronymus Bosch had had Dragonframe: a very graceful overachievement by an obvious over thinker.
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