Sight - Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo (2012)

Sight is a new graduation film from the famous Bezalel Academy, which deals, in an incredibly well thought out manner, the possibilities and dangers of augmented reality.

Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo.

Daniel Lazo
Eran May-raz
(Bezalel)
Israel / 8 minutes

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The Bellies, Philippe Grammaticopoulos [2009]

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Luminaris, Juan Pablo Zaramella, 2011

Inspired by the Argentinian instrumental tango piece entitled “Lluvia de Estrellas” (Star Rain), “Luminaris” tells the story of a man living in a world controlled and timed by light. Each day inhabitants of this fictional world awake and are pulled, as if by some otherworldly force, to their jobs by sunlight. Combining pixilation and stop motion techniques; the surrealist short pairs styles reminiscent of art deco with black cinema. Zaramella explains, "Originally, I approached the project as a puppet animation story, but doing some pixilation tests in the gardens of Fontevraud, just for fun, the seed of the present short was born: the idea of sunlight as a magnetic force.”

Winner of Audience Award at Annecy International Animation Festival
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Country: Argentina
Duration: 6.17

Sleeping Betty - Claude Cloutier — 2007

SLEEPING BETTY from National Film Board of Canada on Vimeo.



Princess Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king appeals to his subjects to wake her. A worthy Prince Charles lookalike has to leave his royal suburb to save the princess, but will Betty be wakened with just a kiss?

Drawn in India ink, this animation sets the Perrault classic in Claude Cloutier’s disjointed, anachronistic and playful universe.

Production : National Film Board of Canada (nfb.ca)

Village of Idiots - Eugene Fedorenko & Rose Newlove (1999)

 
Village of Idiots is a short animated comedy based on the classic Jewish, humorous, folk tales of Chełm made by animators Eugene Fedorenko and Rose Newlove with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

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The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten By Absolutely Everyone (Even the Postman)-Katy Towell - (2005)

The tale of a small child named Emmeline who's forgotten by absolutely everyone... even the postman.

"Once upon a time there was a little girl...no; no that isnt right, you see; it wasnt just any time and this wasnt just any little girl. 

This story is about Emmeline and it happened a long time ago, in a town that doesnt exist...at least not anymore... 

Emmeline was three-the only child of a curator and a soprano. She had anything a child could want...but there was one problem...Emmeline had been forgotten by absolutely everyone."
[Subtitled] The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten By Absolutely Everyone (Even the Postman) from Katy Towell on Vimeo.

Written, illustrated, and animated by Katy Towell in 2005.
Narrated by Tim Jones.
Music by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com.

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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore-William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg-2010

Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, “Morris Lessmore” is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor.
Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story.

Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a new narrative experience
that harkens back to silent films and M-G-M Technicolor musicals.
“Morris Lessmore” is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.

“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is one of five animated short films that will be considered for outstanding film achievements of 2011 in the 84th Academy Awards.

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

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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.