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Imagined Beauty

Sophie Gateau puts together an impressive RGB dance trail sequence for her TED Global 2013 title sequence.

Piano Works 13

Disperate dance styles and a motion design calligraphic language elegantly combine with Polerik Rouviere’s simple piano score in Julien Martorell’s Piano Works 13.

Watch the Gruelling Dedication of a Bolshoi Ballerina in Documentary ‘The Prodigy’

Well aware of the benefits to be found in the downtime which surrounds paying gigs after his experience shooting dialogue exercise piece Charity, director Michael Sugrue knew that he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to stay in Moscow for a few extra days following a commercial shoot there and even convinced a couple of key [...]

Shunpo

Shot over six days in 13 different locations in Paris (and one in Turkey), Shunpo from creative French director Steven Briand is a rhythmic short featuring some snappy editing and well-executed choreography.

Lego Dance

Even when rendered in Lego form by Annette Jung of Berlin animation studio Talking Animals, Michael Jackson still busts all the best moves.

This Way Up

Encouraged by Channel 4 to pitch for their Random Acts strand, directors Spike Morris and Oscar Hudson devised a multi-location dance piece featuring Shun Sugimoto and a teleporting cardboard box: So.. Myself and Oscar Hudson co-shot and co-directed the piece. We knew we wanted to do something bigger, and involving our friend Shun who we [...]

GRIND

Originally created for the Thank you for the music exhibition at Helsinki’s KIASMA, Miikka Lommi applies his bizarre talents to the world of Jamaican dance hall moves in transfixing, super slo-mo piece GRIND – strictly it’s not NSFW but I reckon you’ll get funny looks playing it in the office!

DJ Shadow: Listen

Director Franck Trebillac combines dance and stop-motion in this engaging promo for DJ Shadow track Listen.

Le Réveil | Le Banquet | Engrenage

Murielle Félix combines dance and pixilation in her visually playful experimental films Le Réveil (NSFW), Le Banquet and Engrenage.

Knucklehead

In his documentary Knucklehead Greg Brunkalla guides us through Joey Turman’s journey from homeless kid from a troubled family to member of dance crew Street Kingdom and creator of the Toe Tappy. Which after Coke Zero selected it as the winner of Make it Possible did this: and even spawned its own track: Wow, those [...]

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