Tag Archives: Animation
Wiley Vs. Rhodes: Live-Action Roadrunner Film
From Apache Pictures
Animation by Evan Mather: The Patron Saint of Television
Filmmaker Evan Mather made this beautiful animation about the life and visions of St. Clare of Assisi. I had no idea that television was divinely protected.
Makes me miss that old cathode ray.
Evan Mather produces films for his Hand Crafted Films company.
This is a very sly and clever filmmaker who seems to enjoy thinking about what makes certain film genres tick. He works with language as easily as he works with images. There’s lots more to post from him but you can go and explore his work on his Vimeo page.
Ethical Governor: Animation by John Butler
Animator John Butler’s new work about the systematic war conducted by the financial world against human beings everywhere in the world. There’s more about the animator at Dangerous Minds.
Taiwanese Animators Do Black Friday
Tales of Mere Existence: Procrastination
A funny cartoon by Levni Yilman.
Animation: Night On Disco Mountain
Phylicia Fuentes made this short and groovy little animation based on some of her old childhood sketchbook characters.
Early Avant-Garde Animated Films by Harry Smith
Harry Smith was an American artist, experimental filmmaker, folk music collector and mystic. His film work is considered to be some of the greatest avant-garde work of the 20th century. Here are the first 2 parts of 4 showing some of his early animation from 1941 – 1957.
Animation: Kahani
Meg Park, a final year student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, made this short film that reminds me of how to be a kid. Fantastic animation of the characters and their movements.
Via Cartoon Brew
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.
Science Fiction Animation: Fard
Fard is a 2009 French animated short by Luis Briceno and David Alapont. The story is quite visual, but my limited French tells me that the main character is part of a colorless corporate world and he’s just done a good presentation at work. However, he gets a package that contains something which allows him for a brief time to see what really lies underneath the surface of things.
Via SF Signal
Animation: The Machine
A machine tells the tale of another machine and its hunger for control. A beautiful and frightening fairytale about the machinery of power. Rob Shaw and Sarah Hulin animated it.
Animation About War
Here’s an introductory film for the International College Peace Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea, by Felix Massie.
National Film Board of Canada Releases Huge Film Library for iPhone App
The NFB (National Film Board of Canada) has just released a new free iPhone app that lets you watch hundreds of their films. You can use the app even while you’re away from hotspots by downloading films for viewing during a 24-hour period. The NFB is one of my favorite places on the web for film. They just do it the right way. They make it easy.
This is an excellent way to distribute their huge collection of ground-breaking films.
You can get the app at the iTunes store.
Film: Scintillation
Here’s an experimental film by Xavier Chassaing that uses 35,000 still photos with some stop motion animation and something called ‘live projection mapping.’ The music is by Fedaden.
I found this via Coilhouse.