From Russian animation studio Toonbox comes this marvelous animation based on a poem by Sasha Svirsky. I don’t understand a word of it but I love the sound of it. I really must find the woman who does the voice-over. She is just magnificent and totally fearless. The drawings are fascinating. The rhythm is catchy. [...]
Head is an Argentinian animation by Matias Vigliano and Dante Zaballa. Lots of things going on at the same time.
South African artist William Kentridge made this film in 1996. It concerns the recognition of white guilt expressed through the medical investigation of a real estate magnate as he lies in a hospital bed. Kentridge makes his films by drawing and erasing in charcoal. He photographs each alteration to create movement.
From Super Electric Video comes a music video for a new single, Machine Gun, by Noisia. Hands rule the world and get nasty and destroy everything.
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Did you know this was going on inside your fridge? I think not. These terrible rotten avocados should be dealt with harshly. Henrik Sønniksen made this short and sweet animation that’s full of action and humor.
Simon Ampel made this animation to support the student protest movement against the barbaric and brutal religious government of Iran. It’s very well done and it drives its message home.
Chinese animator Te Wei made this film, The Cowherd’s Flute, in 1963. The boy plays a magnificent flute, then he falls asleep in a tree and dreams about losing his water buffalo. How does he find his friend again?
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Someone named Brian Duffy at Massachusetts College of Art and Design made this peculiar animation featuring the voice of William S. Burroughs. He gets that face animation of Burroughs just absolutely perfect. And that copy of Naked Lunch is the exact copy I’m reading this very evening. Who is this animator? He’s [...]
E.T.A. was directed by Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen, with character modeling and animation by Søren Andersen and Michael la-Cour. The production company is called Junk. The film gets the whole thing with the orbiting spaceship and the cockpit just perfectly. It’s short and sweet and funny. I love sci-fi with grungy control rooms and crap lying [...]
Courtesy of Cold Hard Flash comes yet another wonderful cartoon from Russia’s Toonbox Animation Studio. It’s part of a new web animation series called Shaman’s Quest.
When Russians make animations they do it better than anyone else. Toonbox is an animation studio in Russia and they’ve made this little New Year greeting that illustrates the Chinese year of the ox giving way to the new year of the tiger. It’s beautiful. I like Russian animation above all others. [...]
Muzorama is a short surrealist animation made by students at Supinfocom Arles. Elsa Brehin, Raphaël Calamote, Mauro Carraro, Maxime Cazaux, Emilien Davaud, Laurent Monneron and Axel Tillement directed the film which took only six weeks to complete. It reminds me of surrealist painting and film work being done in Europe during the twenties and thirties. [...]
The Brothers McLeod made this little Christmas cartoon called Two Hats Christmas Message. I like these Brothers because they make things that don’t really seem like they’re made by a company, but rather by… well… two guys. Really nice.
PBS has a show called Fizzy’s Lunch Lab that teaches kids and families about good nutrition. Their band, Freezer Burn, has released a special single for the holidays.
Chris Jones made this CG animation about a terrifying bus ride and an old-fashioned tape player. I’m on the fish’s side. Totally. I will criticize and say that the YouTube video is of inexcusably poor quality considering it’s a recent upload. I’m over animators uploading trailers or compressed versions of their films as [...]
Sugimoto Kousuke animated this to the music of Takayuki Manabe. It is one of those free-moving explosions of anime that revel in media, electricity, gadgets, techno, and odd angles. It’s a riot of scenes that I can’t really fit together in any meaningful way, but it sure is a blast to watch.
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Alex Wilmott made this animation using the frame-by-frame technique in Flash. It’s a wonderful character study that’s all hand-drawn!
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Animator Ben Hu made this short Flash animation called Homework Hydra.
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Here’s an introductory film for the International College Peace Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea, by Felix Massie.
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Giving Help to Disaster Victims
The Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations Food Program put people and resources on the ground quickly in disaster spots. They are provided enormous assistance in Haiti and Chile. CNN has a detailed listing of all the ways you can help and how to donate.
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