Singing Christmas Hedgehogs

Marry Christmas to us all

Swing of Change-2001

Swing of Change from Swing of Change on Vimeo.

Synopsis : New York 30's : Harry, a racist barber changes his mind at the arrival of a magical trumpet in his barber shop ! A Graduation Short Film Directed by : Harmony Bouchard, Andy Le Cocq, Joakim Riedinger, Raphael Cenzi Music by Denis Riedinger

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Thomas Beg, 2011

An 8 Minute adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. My 15 week Major Project at UCA Rochester as part of CG Arts and Animation. Enjoy!

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Wing It - 2011

Lovely film about a young man who is trying to be the first man to fly but his efforts are not succesfull until... help comes from the vast and unexplored universe.

This Short Film Animation Project has been created by students of of The Animation School in South Africa to gain vital work experience.

Mourir Auprès de Toi (2011) - Spike Jonze

Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side)

How to punch a whale, or what Dracula has to do with Faulkner and Macbeth.


Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.

The Hangman (1964)- Maurice Ogden and Paul Julian

"The Hangman" is a poem by Maurice Ogden written in 1951. Its plot concerns a hangman who arrives at a town and executes the citizens one by one. As each citizen is executed, the others are afraid to object out of fear that they will be next. Finally there is nobody remaining in the town except the Hangman and the narrator of the poem.



Les Goldman and Paul Julian directed an animated adaptation of Maurice Ogden’s anti-fascist poem in 1964 and it is narrated by Herschel Bernardi. The film was co-winner of the Silver Sail Award at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1964.

Designed to evoke classic Soviet propoganda, the film vividly illustrates the poem’s theme of creeping fear and social decay invoked by abuses of the State.

The poem

The Tale Of Mr. Rêvus - Marius Herzog (2009)

An amazing film about dreams.
Great animation, story, atmosphere.

"The animated shortfilm “The Tale Of Mr. Rêvus” is my (Marius Herzog) graduation (Diploma) film, produced at the Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule – University Of Applied Sciences, Nuremberg.

The challenge of this movie was to reproduce the entire production process of an animated 3D shortfilm by myself including story development, concept design, modelling, rigging, directing, editing, animating, rendering and finally compositing".

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This Way Up - Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes (2008)

“This Way Up” is a 2008 short film directed by Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes. It follows the story of two undertakers trying to deliver a body to a graveyard. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 81st Academy Awards.

Country: UK
Runtime: 9 min

Plot Device-Seth Worley (2011)

Plot Device from Red Giant on Vimeo.

A young filmmaker obtains a mysterious device that unleashes the full force of cinema on his front lawn.
(Don't miss the scene after the credits!)

Director: Seth Worley
Executive Producer: Aharon Rabinowitz
9 min

The Pearce Sisters - Luis Cook (2007)

"An amusingly bleak hearted tale of two weather lashed old spinsters. Lol and Edna Pearce live on a remote and austere strip of coast. They scrape out a miserable existence from the sea. The pearce sisters is a tale of love, loneliness, guts, gore, nudity, violence, smoking and cups of tea".


Directed by: Luis Cook
Written by: Luis Cook, Mick Jackson
Duration: 9 min

Official site
 και εδώ μπορείτε να βρείτε το διήγημα του Μικ Τζάκ­σον (M­i­ck J­a­c­k­s­on) στο οποίο βασίστηκε η ταινία μεταφρασμένο στα ελληνικά.

Dripped - Léo Verrier (2010)

New York 1950. Passionate about painting, Jack visits museums all day long. He steals paintings and takes them home to eat!
A lovely animation about the possible...origin of the famous painter Jackson Pollock.


Duration 8mn
Country France
Release date october 15th 2010
Directed by Léo Verrier
Produced by Jean-François Bourrel / Chez Eddy

Españistán by Aleix Saló

This is a subtitled version of "La burbuja inmobiliaria" by Aleix Saló expaining the recent economic crisis in Spain. This video was created by Aleix Saló of Barcelona, Spain.

Paranoia by TOON SKOOL – INDIA

The concept took birth as a result of the terrorist activities that have disrupted the daily life of the common man. Because of these acts, every man has grown suspicious of even a little strange behavior or mannerism committed by others.

'Paranoia' is an animated short film made by 4 students as part of their final year degree project for Thakur-Toonskool Advanced Animation Academy.

Les Escargots - René Laloux / Roland Topor (1965)

A gardener tries his best to make his salad plants grow. It is only when
he cries that his tears finally water the field and the salads grow huge.
The incredible size attracts a multitude of snails that quickly become
giant too, causing disasters and panic in the nearby city.

René Laloux (July 13, 1929–March 14, 2004) was a French animator and film director.
He was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in a psychiatric institution where he began experimenting in animation with the interns. It is at the psychiatric institution that he made 1960's Monkey's Teeth (Les Dents du Singe), in collaboration with Paul Grimault's studio, and using a script written by the Cour Cheverny's interns.

Another important collaborator of his was Roland Topor with whom Laloux made Dead Time (Les Temps Morts, 1964), The Snails (Les Escargots, 1965) and his most famous work, the feature length Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage, 1973).

Laloux also worked with Jean Giraud (Mœbius) to create the lesser known film Les Maîtres du temps (Time Masters) in 1981. Laloux's 1988 film, Gandahar, was released in the US as Light Years. The US version was redubbed by Harvey Weinstein, from a screenplay adapted by Isaac Asimov. The US version was not as successful as the French version, grossing less than $400,000 on its release.[1]

Laloux died of a heart attack on March 14, 2004 in Angoulême, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France.
(Wikipedia)

Filmography

Feature Films

• Fantastic Planet (1973)
• Time Masters (1982)
• Gandahar (1987) (released in the U.S. in bowdlerized form under the title Light Years)

Short Films

• Tick-Tock (1957)
• Les Achalunés (1958)
• The Monkey's Teeth (Les Dents du singe) (1960)
• Dead Times (Les Temps morts) (1964)
• The Snails (Les Escargots) (1965)
• The Play (1975)
• Quality Control (1984)
• How Wang-fo Was Saved (Comment Wang-Fo fut sauvé) (1987)
• The Captive (La Prisonnière) (1988)
• Eye of the Wolf (L'Œil du loup) (1998) (screenwriter only)

Rain Town - Hiroyasu Ishida (2010)

In this town, since who knows when, rain has never　stopped.
Residents moved out to suburbs and high ground around "rain town."
People's memories are now deeply submerged.
But into this forgotten rainy town sometimes, someone wanders.

Graduation film by Hiroyasu Ishida (Tete) Kyoto Seika University.
10 min

Matatoro - Mauro Carraro, Raphaël Calamote, Jérémy Pasquet (2010)

MATATORO from Matatoro Team on Vimeo.

The hermetic world of bullfighting and its public, here reinvented and reinterpreted.

Directed by Mauro Carraro, Raphaël Calamote, Jérémy Pasquet

Original music composed by Pierre Manchot

Produced by Supinfocom Arles - 2010

The Incident at Tower 37 - Chris Perry (2009)

Tower 37 siphons every drop of water from a once-pristine lake, that is, until the station's steward realizes that it is slowly destroying an entire ecosystem.

The Incident at Tower 37 (2009) is a ten-minute HD animated film, written and directed by Chris Perry and produced within the collaborative animation curriculum at Hampshire College.


For more information visit http://www.bitfilms.com

“The Forbidden Forest” - Keith Rondinelli

"The Forbidden Forest is inspired by the work of Arthur Machen, who was a Welsh writer of supernatural fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century, specifically his classic tale “The White People”."

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NZ Book Council - Going West

The book in the animation is Maurice Gee's,a distinguished fiction writer from New Zealand.

Film for New Zealand Book Council

Produced by Colenso BBDO
Animated by Andersen M Studio

Animated History of Poland-Tomek Bagiński (2010)

Animated History of Poland

A tale about 1,000 years of Polish history in the format of a musical-visual poem. The story starts with the beginning of the Polish nation in the ninth century, and shows the most important events and processes that took place until the 21st century.

Poland
Running time: 8’51″
Directed by Tomek Bagiński (Fallen Art)