En Marchant (1969)

Ryan Larkin employs a variety of techniques (line drawing, color wash, etc.) to catch and reproduce the motion of people afoot. The springing gait of youth, the mincing step of the high-heeled female, the doddering amble of the elderly: every event is registered with humor and individuality, to the accompaniment of special sound.
A cinematic portrait of people walking in their individual ways!



Excerpts from this film also appear in the Oscar-winning short about Larkin, Ryan.
Walking made Larkin an animation celebrity, catapulting him into the international spotlight.

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Steven Daily’s work is extremely stylized, and his paintings are emotionally evocative. He has shown in numerous galleries nationwide. He has created a sizeable body of work. Daily is extremely busy these days, working on several exciting new projects, so you can expect to see much more from him in the immediate future.

Pulcinella (1973)

Pulcinella is the principal character who dreams himself into a wild nightmare of a dream that leads us through an abstract world.
Emanuele Luzzati designed the forms and art style, and Giulio Gianini animated and took care of the technical aspect.



Pulcinella is an artistically imaginative and very inspiring short with a lot of free improvisation and a harmonious interaction between music and motion characterise. It was inspired by the Italian opera and the traditional folk theatre Commedia dell'Arte.

Bokka

Akab. He's editor and charter member of Shok Studio. He has collaborated with Marvel, Dark Horse and DC comics. His painting has been exhibited at L.57, Happening underground, Sovversivi, Milano's International Fumetto Triennale, Freeshout, No human no cry. His first film M A T T A T O I O has been selected for the Venice's Biennal. His movie Il corpo di Cristo has been selected at Bellaria Film Festival.

Jazz

By Ryan Terry.

Dark Angel

By Mielenero

Twin Hearts

Adriana De Barros. Artist, writer and poet. You can watch his Flash Visual Poems on SCENE360.

Her personal and commercial work has been recognized with numerous editorial and design awards and honors. She's also active in the design industry.

Umi Ga kikoeru (1993)

Unlike Ghibli Studio's more popular works, Ocean Waves is not a fantastic fairytale adventure or a metaphorical epic on man's relationship with nature.
The story is set in the city of Kōchi, on the Japanese island of Shikoku. It concerns a love triangle that develops between two good friends and Rikako, a new girl who transferred from Tokyo.
Taku travels to his hometown for his high school reunion. During the trip, he recalls the memories of the days in high school. Friendship, subtle love, a trip to Tokyo and so on all came back to him as the film evolves.



Ocean Waves simply focuses on the main characters and tells their story honestly. The dramatic conflicts are real and interesting.
It was directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and was based on the novel of the same title by Saeko Himuro.

Au bout du monde (1999)

The adventures of a precariously-balanced house. Built on the top of a hill, it swings to and fro to the great displeasure of its inhabitants. Through various gesticulations and unintelligible verbal exchanges, these small characters are imbued with a lot of personality.
The gags build seamlessly on each other as the house teeters on the tip of the mountain.



The dialogue-free comedy transpires on both sides of a house perched on a peak so pointy the tiny structure see-saws whenever humans or animals make a move. Konstantin Bronzit's sense of comic timing couldn't be better and his cartoony drawing style is very appealing.
Its humor is quite understated, with gags based on timing, perspective, and sound, all used sparingly.

Blue Monochrom

By Michel De Broin. Through a collection of objects and actions, his works seek to escape the constraining nature of modern utopian aspirations whilst attempting to reenact them in playful, jesting objects that glorify the referent on the one hand while upstaging it on the other.
Drawing on his doubt in the capacity and value of ideas, his sculptural projects seek to put them to the test by literally confronting them with the necessities of reality in assemblage that often troubles the ideas it purports to speak for.

Musicotherapie

Amaël Isnard, Manuel Javelle and Clément Picon directed this strange short, in which madness at the mental institution as the animals drive the monkey doctor crazy making music.



Musicotherapie is a very well done short.

Doggy Bag

Doggy Bag is a 3d short by Guillaume Cassuto, Thomas Moine and Sylvain Perlot, three students from France’s Supinfocom school.
At the same moment, in a bombed-out neighborhood, two starving tenants decide to eat the dog of the old woman who lives on the top floor of the building...



It's a macabre tale of the comically surreal lengths two men will go just to get a decent meal. The animation is snappy and thelighting excellent.

Alphabet blocks

By Lauren Nassef.

Cashback (2004)

Sean Ellis narrates a sedate and surreal story of broken love and reborn.
The protagonist is a reflective man, who works in a supermaket and struggles against the tyranny of time.
Ben Willis is an art student who works the night shift several times a week at the Whitechapel Sainsbury's. Heart broken and tortured by insomnia Ben explains his view and experience of female beauty.



The movie is about love, art and supermarket co-workers and shows an interesting view of time and time stopping. The most obvious artistic quality in the movie might be that of drawing, capturing beauty, but the red thread in the story is the path between one lost relation and the passionate flames of new love and the feelings it conquers.
Cashback was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. It was expanded into a full-length feature of the same name which was released by Gaumont in late 2006. It had its North American premiere on September 10, 2006, at the Toronto International Film Festival and has been screened at a number of other international festivals.
You can buy Cashback.

I Took the Wheel

By Gea.

Africa (1997)

The idea of this film is based on the interest in african painting and masks about faces and human body. This is the story of a young man who, doing is boring duty in an office, dreams about a journey into the mythical continent.

Francisco Lança realized a black and white crayons over acrilic painted backgrounds.

Cannes 2008

Palme d'Or
ENTRE LES MURS by Laurent Cantet

Grand Prix
GOMORRA by Matteo Garrone

Prize of the 61st Festival by Cannes ex-aequo
Catherine Deneuve for UN CONTE by NOËL by Arnaud DESPLECHIN
Clint Eastwood pour / for L’ÉCHANGE (The Exchange)

Award for the Best Director
ÜÇ MAYMUN (Three Monkeys / Les Trois Singes) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jury Prize
IL DIVO by Paolo Sorrentino

Prix d'interprétation masculine
Benicio Del Toro for CHE by Steven SODERBERGH

Best Performance for an Actress
Sandra Corveloni for LINHA by PASSE by Walter SALLES, Daniela THOMAS

Award for the Best Screenplay
LE SILENCE by LORNA by Jean-Pierre et Luc DARDENNE


IN COMPETTION - SHORT FILMS

Palme d'Or
MEGATRON by Marian Crisan

Jury Prize
JERRYCAN by Julius Avery


CAMERA D'OR

HUNGER by Steve McQueen (Un Certain Regard)

Mention Spéciale Caméra d'Or
VSE UMRUT A JA OSTANUS (Ils mourront tous sauf moi) by Valeria Gaï GUERMANIKA (Semaine Internationale by la Critique)


UN CERTAIN REGARD

Un Certain Regard Prize
TULPAN by Sergey Dvortsevoy

Jury Prize
TOKYO SONATA by Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Heart Throb Jury Prize
WOLKE 9 by Andreas Drese

The Knockout of Un Certain Regard
TYSON by James Toback

Prize of Hope
JOHNNY MAD DOG by Jean-Stéphane SAUVAIRE

CINEFONDATION

First Cinéfondation Prize
HIMNON (Hymne) by Elad Keidan (The Sam Spiegel Film and TV School, Israël)

Second Cinéfondation Prize
FORBACH by Claire Burger (La fémis, France)

Third Cinéfondation Prize
STOP by Park Jae-ok (The Korean Academy of Film Arts, Corée du Sud)
KESTOMERKITSIJÄT (Signalisation des routes) by Juho Kuosmanen (University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finlande)

Éramos pocos (2005)

After his wife leaves him, Joaquín brings his mother-in-law back home to look after him and his son.



Borja Cobeaga makes a simple, but neat short. There's a strange humour in Eramos poco you'll surely enjoy!

Sztuka spadania (2004)

In an old forgotten military base far from civilization, a group of deranged military officers nurture their insanity.
A volunteer soldier plummets to his death. A photograph is taken and sent by courier to a huge man, who adds it to his macabre collection.
The message behind ‘Fallen Art’ changed during production. At the beginning Tomek Baginski wanted to make just a funny film about the army, but many things happened in the world while the crew was fine-tuning the storyboards.



Fallen Art is an exploration of animation itself, as it is done in very caricaturist CG but has the second level of being something of a stop-motion animation.
The main assumption of the technique used in the film was the combining of the modern language of computer animation with the classical hand painting so that the picture would gain the feeling of an actual painting.

NYC Mech pinup

Jim Rugg has worked with VH1, Harcourt, SLG, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Adhouse Books, Meathaus, Alternative, SPX, Top Shelf, and Sparkplug. He is the co-creator of Street Angell, Afrodisiac and the The Plain Janes.

J'attendrai le suivant... (2002)

Philippe Orreindy directed I'll Wait for the Next One, a short which sets itself up as a cute little comedy skit, and it delivers on that premise but also surprises you with an incredibly moving finale.



Lasting only four minutes, the film takes place almost entirely on a metro train.
On a subway train, a man announces that he's looking for someone who might be interested in him; the usual dating methods have not worked, though there's nothing wrong with him. He explains that any interested woman can just get off at the next stop. One woman looks interested...

We the Robots 4

We The Robots is a comic strip by animator and former syndicated cartoonist, Chris Harding. It is about robots.

Helium (2005)

Adam Janeczeic directed one of the best animated videos I've ever watched.

Helium is so elegant for its choreography. This short reminde of some sequences of dancing fairies in Fantasia. The animation is perfect for its graceful timing of these Casper - ghosts.

Alter

By Michael Englert.

Copy Shop (2001)

Copy Shop is an ingenious, visually stunning experimental film about a guy who works in a copy shop. During his morning test of the machine, he accidentally copies his hand; while he's looking at that copy, the machine starts churning out scenes from earlier that morning. Spooked by this, he closes up early and goes home. Soon, it seems, he's part of a society in which everyone looks like him and wears check vest. Can he get things back to normal?


Virgil Widrich shot the film on digital video then took the footage into a computer and edited all the fancy effects. The result is truly unique.

We the Robots 3

We The Robots is a comic strip by animator and former syndicated cartoonist, Chris Harding. It is about robots.

Empire (2005)

As we see the Statue of Liberty from the air, the voice of President George W. Bush speaks about a great people facing terror. Then there follows a montage of images of offices, homes, and back yards of the U.S. in the late 1950s and early 1960s: the colors of avocado green and harvest gold dominate. People, all of them white, are well dressed and well scrubbed; houses and offices well kept.



Archives images compiled by Edouard Salier demonstrate the blissful consumers of the standard American family, which become deformed by their transparent backdrops. Each image is criss-crossed by optical effects that magnify or obscure, and that invite sharper observation. Empire is remarkable for its integration of form, technique and content, deploying digital technologies with glacial precision in its exploration of the pervasive, unsettling realities of our times. Empire is a graphic illustration of the American way of life, and its warlike tendencies.

0055

By Momo.

Kleingeld (1999)

Herr Hoffman parks his late-model car in a lot across from his corner office on the top floor. Each day, he puts a coin in the cup of a beggar who stands in front of the building. One day, Hoffman looks out his window and notices the beggar washing his car. That evening, when he gives the beggar a coin, Hoffmann tells him not the wash it. But the next day, it happens again...

Kleingeld was inspired by The Philanthropist, a play which was performed in Berlin by a student theater group. In the play a character tells a story about something that happened to him, but in the film, it's a different character, it's a different setting.
Marc-Andreas Bochert makes a short which is exceptionally well thought through, visually.
The cinematic space that articulates this story is made up of a series of repetitions, this space is shown with many variations.
Marc-Andreas Bochert also worked very carefully with the music. These are the dynamics from which Kleingeld can profit.

We the Robots 2

We The Robots is a comic strip by animator and former syndicated cartoonist, Chris Harding. It is about robots.

Giocattoli futuristi (2005)

Futurists Toys is a grotesque tale that sparks a sense of loss and amazement in the viewer via a dreamlike vision. It’s inspired by Depero’s paintings and his “Balli Plastici,” the “futuristic theatre of marionettes”.



Claudio Castelli wants to wake sleepy consciences from their mechanicist torpor.
The story also touches issues raised by classic novels such as Dante's “Divine Commedy” and Manzoni's “The Betrothed” and wants to provoke thinking for young people ruled by routine.

Tokimeki

By Yuka Yamaguchi.

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2007 independent artist grant - saskatchewan arts board

Ballad of Mary Slade (Slamdance 2007)

Robin Fuller narrate a tale of passion, adultery and murder. The body of a young woman is slowly consumed by insects.



This is a gothic tragedy, told from an unusual point of view. The tragic story of her life and eventual demise slowly unfolds as the insects that consume her decaying body become actors in the fateful retelling of her downfall.

We the Robots 1

We The Robots is a comic strip by animator and former syndicated cartoonist, Chris Harding. It is about robots.

City Paradise (Ottawa 2005)

At first, Gaelle Denis depicts the metropolis as an intimidating presence.
When Tomoko, a young Japanese girl who comes to London to learn English, leaves her house, we discover a mysterious, secret underground city below London, a place that's colorful and friendly.



City Paradise was commissioned by Channel 4 as part of the MOMI Artist in Residence (AIR) animation scheme.
This animation is so richness for its color choice and its music. And there is also humor in the mockery of British life.
When animation is art ...

Reflection

This photo is part of a series shot at Nicholas Dattner's factory in Melbourne which produces furniture from recycled timbers. James McArdle was using a large format camera and tilting the focus plane to draw the viewer's attention here to the point of contact between the stacked chairs, giving the illusion of a mirrored surface, and the worker's eyeline.

One Weekend, A Month (Sundance 2005)

Meg's Monday morning routine is turned upside down when the phone rings. The caller delivers some news that turns her life, and lives of her children, upside down.
This is a tale of sacrifice, loss of faith, and redemption set in the land of diminishing returns



Eric Escobar choose to film the scene in basically the same area, the kitchen. The raw emotions portrayed by Renee O'Connor sensed her character's desperation but felt it as well.

Elmer

The trailer of comicbook Elmer.



Visit Jerry Alanguilan's website.

The Deadline (The Presentators 2004)

Three animators struggle to make a film as the deadline rapidly approaches.
If you ever lived through the creative crisis at the end of any group project will easily identify with the humour in The Deadline.



Stefan Marjoram designed this short to show how Aardman's stop motion heritage was not lost in the newly developed CG department. It is predominantly a lip-sync piece, it's funny and produces a laugh of recognition.
The Presentators are a series of one-minute, 3D, computer-animated shorts made for Nickelodeon.

Mind Trip

By Naoto Hattori.

This Is for Betsy Hall (Sundance 2000)

A daughter's personal story recounting her mother's lifelong battle with Bulimia.

An impressionistic montage of stills, projected video, underwater footage and an intimate phone conversation, this deeply personal film was crafted as a gift for the Hope Hall's mother.

Geek And Poke

by Oliver Widder. You can read other Geek and Poke stories on their website.

Agricultural Report (2004)

A new strain of a disease that could be dangerous to livestock herds is being discussed on the radio. A cow listening to the show naturally gets a bit worried about the topic.
This is why cows shouldn't listen to the radio. What's a cow to do? Why, freak out, of course.




Barley Films was founded in Ireland in 2002 to produce entertaining animated films. This is its second short and it has gone on to win ten international awards and has screened in over one hundred festivals.
Melina Sydney Padua makes a great work!

Beef

Ed Piskor has collaborated with Harvey Pekar on American Splendor. He and Mr. Pekar are currently wrapping up a graphic novel called "MACEDONIA" for Random House.