By mixing abstraction, collage, drawing animation the author invites us into a spontaneous and unsystematic research of potential of the animation and leads us into the world of irrepressible imagination.
The film was made specifically for a group show in Vienna (curated by Clint Enns and Madi Piller) titled From A to Z, that reflects on Micheal Snow’s 1956 animated film of the same name, and his multiplicity of approaches which fluidly transition between media and form. The piece is an endless barrage of hyperlinked cable television commercials. With equal doses of satire and nostalgia, the promised pleasures of late consumer capitalism are deconstructed through a contemporary form of détournement.
Before we run out of gasoline, we will no longer have phosphorus for industrial agriculture. No fertilizer, no harvest! And in 300 years, humanity will be history...
Join everybody s favorite playmates -- that doughy green guy, Gumby, and his pony pal Pokey -- as they bring a world of Christmas adventure to life in these wonderful, stop-action holiday stories... including seeing the duo visit merry old England to keep Ebenezer Scrooge from putting the humbug on Christmas!
It's winter in Sunflower Valley and Bob and his team are trying to build a concert hall. Scrambler and Zoomer put their differences aside to help save the big winter party when a sudden snow storm hits Sunflower Valley.
A lonely walk home is intertwined with an underwater fantasy world. The relationship between reality and fantasy is portrayed in a love letter addressed to an imaginary "perfect" man. The film displays a critical, female point of view on the idea of romantic modern love in western society. Its main purpose is to dismantle the "knight in shining armor" myth.
An epic, outrageous saga, Smart Monkey explores the ancestral combat of the weakest to survive against brute force. In a Paleolithic jungle, a mischievous monkey takes on merciless predators, cleverly escaping danger at every turn. The little primate embodies the superiority of brain over brawn and the advent of culture overtaking instinct… until, at a crucial and unfortunate moment we are reminded that civilization was not built on kindness. Several millennium later, a singular epilogue presents the consequences of our primate’s adventure…
David Mullins and Charlie Craig visited Masterpiece Cakeshop in July 2012, with Charlie's mother, to order a cake for their upcoming wedding reception. This is their story.
Rise into being, mature, perish – "Fruit" tells a creation story. As the animated short film unfolds, it brings forth a play of shapes illustrating the dialog between two mythological forces – the West and the East.
When an evil spirit dead-set on conquering the world rises from the beyond, the star gods send a young boy named Polaris to defeat the spirit and maintain peace. As Polaris trains to become a powerful warrior, he must learn from 12 Kung Fu Masters before facing off against his ultimate foe, in this animated action adventure trilogy.
Skin for Skin is a dark allegory of greed and spiritual reckoning set during the early days of the fur trade. In 1823, the Governor of the largest fur-trading company in the world travels across his Dominion, extracting ever-greater riches from the winter bounty of animal furs. In his brutal world of profit and loss, animals are slaughtered to the brink of extinction until the balance of power shifts, and the forces of nature exact their own terrible price. With nods to Melville and Coleridge, directors Carol Beecher & Kevin Kurytnik have created a visually stunning contemporary myth about the cost of arrogance and greed.
Lying on a village square, in an indignant camp, a man goes back in his memories. In everyday life, this man walks and manifest with the others, but he is not an activist. He is a wandering one. "The walker"
This animated short tells the story of Trudy, a little girl who is equal parts truthful and rude. A bright-minded and quick-witted child, Trudy has an unfiltered and deeply curious way of looking at the world. Here, events force her to question what it means to speak the truth, and comes to understand how our differences make us unique.