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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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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

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Human impacts on Biodiversity | Ecology and Environment | Biology | FuseSchool

Biodiversity is the variety of life. There are thought to be 8.7 million species on planet Earth. And, as we saw in this video, biodiversity is of utmost importance to humans. The loss of one key species can have a … Continue reading

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Phenomena Exotica

An animated dark comedy that dissects all types of phenomena and exceptional situations related to human nature. From filmmaker Jossie Malis.

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Eventually, Everyone We Know Now Won’t Be Known By Anyone

A short fictional ‘thought experiment.’ Nearly 2,000 years in the future, a young brother and sister come across an ancient laptop from the early 2000s. On it, they observe the works and happenings of obscured individuals who came before them.

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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

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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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Holi art: creative process documented

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“Accents”

This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, “There’s a Poem for That,” which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life’s biggest feelings. [Poem by Denice Frohman, directed by KAPWA / … Continue reading

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The Rememberer

exurb1a I’m sure we’ve all been through that phase when you just want to make 30 minute thinly veiled monochrome allegories about your fear of ageing. Bonus trivia: This video is not finished. But if I don’t let it go … Continue reading

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