In this Oscar-Nominated short, Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, directed by Nicky Phelan and produced by Darragh O’Connell, old Granny tells a tale that goes a bit off the rails as all good stories should do. It’s hilarious. It’s got a maniacally angry ‘elderly fairy’ who crashes the fairy tale party and spreads her bile around the joint in a most amusing tirade.
Category Archives: Animation
Animation: Hanabeam
Look at this astonishing music video from a Japanese breakbeat duo called Hifana. It explodes.
Animation: How To Feed The World
The real problem with feeding the world properly is the production of meat. Meat is a very destructive product because it is a huge polluter and uses land inefficiently. Denis van Waerebeke made this instructive short film about world hunger.
Animation: Table For 2
A nice little love couple enjoying a simple meal together with plenty of food and knives and forks to throw. A messy relationship. Strong table required. Israeli filmmaker Dafna Axel made this as her graduation project film.
Animation: The Family That Dwelt Apart
The National Film Board of Canada produced this cartoon adaptation of a story by E.B. White. He did the narration too! It’s a far-fetched tale of logical and methodical silliness that ends in an eruption of accidental death and mayhem. Simply marvelous.
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Animation: The Hole
In 1962 John and Faith Hubley won an Oscar for this short that features a conversation between jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie and George Matthews. It’s about two construction workers down in a hole having an intense discussion about accidents that goes totally nuclear. Fascinating Cold War film that is still just as relevant today.
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