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Stories In Place: Desert Island Comics
Inspired by Desert Island Comics, the iconic Brooklyn shop now indefinitely closed, this cut paper animation speaks to the connective power of comic books. Stories in Place is a collection of videos by Staff Picked filmmakers that chronicle small businesses … Continue reading
Stories In Place: Plante.
Plante. is a slow lifestyle plant shop in the heart of Budapest, Hungary that was forced to think beyond their physical store. Réka Bucsi captures this moment of transition through animated flora. Stories in Place is a collection of videos … Continue reading
CANDY SHOP Animated Short
Pills and capsules are choreographed into a cacophony of shape, color and size, resulting in a satirical commentary about our cultural, recreational, and economic infatuation with prescription drugs. Animated by Patrick Smith Produced by Kaori Ishida Percussion by Steve Rice … Continue reading
“Singularity (after Stephen Hawking)” by Marie Howe
Poem by Marie Howe. Text and context: brainpickings.org/2020/04/23/singularity-marie-howe-animated Created for The Universe in Verse: brainpickings.org/the-universe-in-verse Produced by SALT Project (saltproject.org) with Maria Popova (brainpickings.org). Original music by Zoë Keating (zoekeating.com). This has been a multi-woman labor of love, with everyone … Continue reading
The Dreams of an Astronaut – with Helen Sharman
What do astronauts dream of? In 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space; in this animation she shares a dream she has about returning to space, and talks about what it’s like to gaze down on the earth … Continue reading
Nina Simone – Color Is A Beautiful Thing
Animation brings “Color Is a Beautiful Thing” to life, off of Nina Simone’s rediscovered album ‘Fodder On My Wings’ Director: Sharon Liu Producer: Aaron Lampert Animators: Nicolette van Gendt & Duncan Gist
Phenomena Exotica
An animated dark comedy that dissects all types of phenomena and exceptional situations related to human nature. From filmmaker Jossie Malis.
What Happens When The Building Blocks of the Universe Start To Break?
Armstrong Directed by Russ Etheridge http://squaresquare.tv/ “After a decade of writing about short film, the format continues to excite me in ways no other visual medium can. The freedom it offers in world-building and storytelling is unparalleled in the world … Continue reading
A Carnivalesque Short Film by Fernando Livschitz Imagines a Buoyant Vienna
“Vienna is like…,” a new animated short by Fernando Livschitz (previously), brings a heavy dose of the absurd to the Austrian capital. The director, who’s from Argentina and heads Black Sheep Films, captures an imagined Vienna in which historic buildings … Continue reading
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