I don’t know what’s kept me so long.
Johnny Kelly’s short film(04:26) about putting things off until later.
I do it. I know a lot of other people do it. In fact there’s one or two people procrastinating right now as they read this post. Get back to work, you slackers! [...]
A short film about an art form that flourished in the 20th Century, that now faces an uncertain future.
Full of arcane references for those who know their history
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For some years, the final year students at the Gobelins school in Paris have provided the opening shorts for screening sessions at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival & Market that takes place in early June.
Every day’s proceedings at the festival are introduced with a new short film.
Details of these animated films have been posted [...]
The Russian Archive Cinema Season (1908 -1925) will be showing in London on the 3rd, 10th & 24th February 2008 at the Curzon Mayfair, 38 Curzon St, London W1
Tickets: 0871 703 3989
www.curzoncinemas.com
The highlight for animation fans will be The Cameraman’s Revenge, showing at noon on the 24th Feb. Directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz, this 12 [...]
The online “daily magazine” The First Post is currently showing an exhibition of animation online. It’s described as a festival, but I’m not sure how it could be described as such if you are looking at short animated films on their website, all on your own, and there’s with no-one to go for a [...]
As part of their Masters of Cinema series, independent distributor Eureka Entertainment have recently published three DVDs featuring feature length films by the late French animator René Laloux.
Laloux’s work has championed sci-fi themes, and his skill and vision have created some amazing movies in his 44 year animation career.
His psychedelic sci-fi animated feature Fantastic Planet [...]
Filmax Animation are releasing the animated feature film Donkey Xote*, on the 5th of December.
The trailer (below) gave me a little shudder when I saw this CGI animated film featuring a noisy, ugly, fat bloke accompanied by an annoying sidekick who also happens to be a (wait for it…) donkey.
Some of the concept work of [...]
Looking at Miller’s animations at his website (Flash alert!) I can’t help but get the feeling that I have stumbled upon a series of televised chats between members of an alien civilisation. There are signs of a very advanced intelligence on show, but however hard I look, I cannot for the life of [...]
Koichiro Tsujikawa is genius director of short films. All of his works feature a strangely twisted view of reality that is dreamily seductive, and at the same time mind bendingly weird.
Needless to say, I’m a big fan!
Music video for Cornelius - Like a Rolling Stone
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Music video for Cornelius - [...]
Clive Powsey wised me up to Branislav’s work through the comments form here. Although uncredited by IMDB, Branislav was responsible for some of the lovely production designs for the recently released European film, Nocturno. (See my earlier post here.)
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Some fine work on show, [...]
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