SHOWCASE
SHOWCASE
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from dad to son by nils knoblich
Gestalt, indeed! Bold and subtle, this graphically grabbing student short blends a lo-fi approach with the high fidelity of polish, classic framing and story. Hitchcock might even approve. One of the superpowers of animation is to communicate a whole lot with very little. We certainly look forward to more daring prison-breaks from the norms of…
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eager by allison schulnik
Shamanism, the subconscious, outsider mythology, sexuality, decay and transmutation, the donning and destruction of personae and the mysterious, almost dark power of femininity….Allison Schulnik‘s art resembles a jawbreaker in this film….as do her layers of meaning. Her animation manages to simultaneously recall interpretive dance, synchronized swimming and a pivotal scene in Macbeth. More beautiful, successful…
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elliot the bull by oh yeah wow
Mythology seems to be all the rage, and that ain’t no bull. Evoking elemental childhood imagination, Oh Yeah Wow delivers another dynamic journey with “Elliot the Bull,” a music video for Colourblind. Read on to hear from Director Samuel Lewis as he helps us to connect the blocks with some photomatched production factoids.
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peppermint by harris
Directed by Noah Harris and shot by illustrious DP Toby Howell, this crisply orchestrated music video is for Julio Bashmore‘s hot song “Peppermint,” featuring Jessie Ware. Graphic in more ways than one, this piece is perfectly lit and shot to invoke the feeling of the club dancefloors that its house music graced. An interesting postmodern…
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kangaroos can’t jump backwards by motiphe
The mechanically artistic engineers of animation at Motiphe provide us with yet another playground for the clever. Here Director Rafael Mayrhofer wantonly toys with ideas, statistics, disturbingly fun facts, camera angles, tinfoil, storied layers of perception and expectation, clay, soap, scale and lighting. Nothing is really safe in this arena, but, there is one certainty.…