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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 [...]
Kickstart The Visitant from Nick Peterson & Jon Heder
After the success of their slightly disturbing live-action/animation film Drained, writer/director Nick Peterson once again teams up with actor Jon Heder (taking up the producer role) to start production on their latest short The Visitant. Described as an edge-of-your seat supernatural horror, Peterson’s latest film is the story of a mother who battles to protect [...]
Alex Amoling & Chae Hawk Reunite to Heal the Broken in ‘Chin Ups’
When you’re onto a good thing creatively it makes nothing but sense to see where you can take things next, which was part of the motivating factor that brought director Alex Amoling and musician Chae Hawk back together for Chin Ups after their fruitful work together on the Remember This Night promo: “On the way [...]
TheyAreAnimators #11: David OReilly
Not content with making some of the most innovative animation seen in recent years, eccentric creative-type David OReilly seems to have so many fingers in so many pies, he’s going to need to some more fingers very soon (something I wouldn’t put past him). Following on from our focus on his Adventure Time episode A Glitch is a Glitch last month, we decided it was about time we found out a little more about his work so far.
Soul Searching
Remember kids, nothing good can come from talking to strangers or magicians, especially the creepy, soul stealing one at the centre of Hallie Wilson’s third year CalArts animation Soul Searching.
The Flaming Lips: You Lust
Directed by long time collaborators George Salisbury and Wayne Coyne through their production house Delo Creative, the NSFW You Lust promo for The Flaming Lips sees electrically stimulated test subjects stripped bare and recorded for an unspecified experiment.
I/O: Wasted My Time
Sometimes it takes a while to get a collaboration going regardless of the intentions of the parties involved, but as they say, where there’s a will there’s a way. A fan of the work of glitch effects masters BRTHR from back in their college days, New Jersey’s I/O had been wanting the pair to put [...]
Man’s Best Friend
If Last Minutes with ODEN got to you, then you might want to steal yourself for Chris Neal’s heartfelt farewell to Griffey, Man’s Best Friend.
Alan Wilkis: Old-Fashioned Girl
For the fourth instalment in Alan Wilkis’ PRINTS series of singles, the Brooklyn-based music producer teamed up with Michael Lawrence, who put aside his wandering ways – even shooting all the main interior apartment scenes in his own bedroom – to direct Old-Fashioned Girl; the tale of Fat Jew The Hunk’s dance-off challenge with the [...]
Northern Bells: Animal Kingdom
Filmmaker Eric Power, he of the mad paper animation skills, turns his talents to the service of Northern Bells for the tragic (or is it?) tale of three strange creatures and their interweaved fates in Animal Kingdom.
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