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Jossie Malis joins us to discuss the first two episodes of his shadow play inspired ten part animation series Bendito Machine, which explore the ever problematic universal issues of power, corruption and religion.
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Zumbakamera
Bendito Machine
Shadow Play
Adobe FreeHand
Adobe Flash
AWN’s “Best of the Web” Showcase 2007
Remember Happy Monday, Andrew Filippone Jr.’s documentary film object (DN066)? Well Andrew’s applied his skills to distort the world of Charlie Rose in a new experimental piece. I could mangle together my own description of the piece and probably still be way off the mark so instead read Andrew’s description, watch the film and let [...]
Stefan Nadelman made a splash back in 2002 with his stills animated documentary Terminal Bar. Since then he’s gone on to create a host of personal, collaborative, and commercial work, and joins us to discuss his first outing into music videos with Menomena’s Evil Bee promo.
Menomena: Evil Bee Materials
Animatic
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Tourist Pictures
Sundance Film Festival
Terminal Bar
Adobe Flash
Latin Alive
Resfest
VH1
Curious [...]
Directors Boca & Ryan Uhrich describe their creative relationship as an ongoing tennis match in which each of them pushes the other to create the best work possible. Their animation Duelity presents the two main arguments for the origins of man as separate films which come together in a third split-screen piece to debate the [...]
A tip off from past guest Robert Seidel led me to the work of animator Max Hattler, who has been described by Dazed and Confused as one of “three of the world’s most exciting young animators”, next to PES and Model Robot. He joins us this week to discuss his experimental piece Drift.
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Max Hattler
Goldsmiths [...]
If you’re one of our more regular visitors to the site and have been checking us out since the early days, then you’ll know our love for lists. MarBelle and I have already dedicated a post to the list earlier in the year, when I wrote about a book dedicated to filmic lists (Faber and [...]
Turning insomnia to his advantage, director Alnoor Dewshi developed the concept for his astounding short 77 Beds whilst finding an alternative to counting sheep, “I got the idea from lying awake one night and trying to count back through all the beds I’d ever slept in – back to and including the bed I [...]
To make up for the delay in getting this episode out, today I have not one, but two directors joining me from New York and Germany, making this our first tri-timezone episode! Benjamin Stephan & Lutz Vogel are the collaborative duo behind the Trusted Computing animated, documentary piece you may have come across a while [...]
In Consider Yourself at Home, Tim’s daily routine is interrupted by a song from his dead wife that sets in motion a descent into the surreal. A project initially conceived by director Andy Gibson to demonstrate his aptitude with various software and hardware, Consider Yourself at Home is a 10-minute film comprising 17,000 still images [...]
My beer fuelled interview with co-directors Andy Gibson and Ryan Rogers is the first face to face interview we’ve put out and was great fun to do. Despite the ever growing stack of empty pints, the three of us managed to stay enough on topic to discuss the pairs’ stopframe animation Sunshine Indoors, an odd [...]