Posts Tagged ‘comedy’

Constable Witch – Animation by the Brothers McLeod

An episode of Sticks by the Brothers McLeod for BBC Comedy.


A Prayer for Cool – Super 8 Biker Film by Marc Bencivenga

It’s not the bikes that I like so much. It’s the super 8! A perfect little piece of humorous filmmaking that really does somehow capture a kind of coolness and easy rebellion that I thought was long gone. There’s some absolutely gorgeous photography going on here. And who ever sees someone lighting up a cigarette [...]


Hazardous Players Tell Tales of Hilarious Chivalry

What we have here is an enormous tale of medieval chivalry, dragon lore, heraldry, round-tableness, and the insane goings-on of knights and their goonish glory.  The magnificent squad of funny men behind these tales of audio craziness call themselves The Hazardous Players.  Their ongoing comic production is a series of tales called Knighttime, which follows [...]


Animation: Pigeon Pilfer

Animator Michael Stevenson of San Fransisco State University made this claymation cartoon. It’s short and sweet. Clay animation is very difficult to do well and this animator does it brilliantly. He gets a lot a character out of his clay and the film has a wonderful gentle humor that is very European in its flavor.  [...]