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What is an aphorism?

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BEYOND – animated shortfilm

This is my MA graduation film at MOME. Synopsis: A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. Also in Earth there are places and situations with strange attraction. … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Subversive Feminist Celebration of Science and the Human Hunger for Truth, in a Gorgeous Animated Short Film

A lyrical journey into the history of our species as the sensemaking animal who hungers for knowledge and advances by love. BY MARIA POPOVA   Every year at The Universe in Verse — the charitable celebration of science through poetry … Continue reading

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“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

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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

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A Boy I Never Knew

 

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Behind the Doodle: Celebrating Mbira

Today’s interactive Doodle celebrates Zimbabwe’s national instrument, the mbira, as Zimbabwe’s Culture Week begins. Try your own hand at this instrument that has been played for over 1,000 years, while experiencing a story of a Zimbabwean girl who learns to … Continue reading

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