An award-winning Royal College Of Art graduation short by Zohar Dvir about a young millennial and how her over-reliance on a magic 8-ball causes her to delve into her subconscious mind.
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1993
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A new instalment of The Hood Internet’s ongoing series of pop mashups: 60 songs from 1993, artfully squished into 210 seconds.
Previously: 1990
The Symptoms
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Hot Wheels
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Behold: the 1957 Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing – the enduring masterpiece that resulted when Mercedes Benz took the chassis and 3.0l inline six engine from a W194 race car, added a weepingly beautiful shell and gave the world the ultimate grand tourer.
This fine example, originally sold in the US, has been completely disassembled, rebuilt and restored over 10 months by vintage Merc restoration specialists, Hjeltness.
Yours (with 55 pages of documentation and two photo albums detailing same restoration) for around €850,000.
Arguably best in silver (of which this beauty is the ultimate expression) but also nice in Paul Newman blue or liquid black.
An impressive graduation short from six students of the French animation school Gobelins in which Lou goes looking for the precious rollerskates that his mother accidentally sold to a stranger at a swap meet. Of their innovative mix of styles, the team tells SOTW:
We are following Lou’s journey through his eyes and we wanted for the graphic approach to reflect that…The fact is that we mostly used graphic codes that belong to illustration and comics rather than cinema, so that each shot is a different concept that quickly translates the emotion of the scene. All of this allows us to be closer to Lou and to feel what he feels…
They Exist
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A pair of defiant motorbike couriers speed though a near-future world of self-driving vehicles and state surveillance in a light-on-narrative but darkly atmospheric proof of concept showcase for a larger project by Joe Sill and Matisse Tolin. Sill sez of if:
We’ve had the story outline and bible for a long-format version of this project for some time now, and early in the pandemic we dusted it off and began to wonder what a short film excerpt of it would look like…
A pleasingly groovy cover of “You’re The One That I Want’ from Grease by vocalists Antwaun Stanley, Therese Curatolo and collaborative funksters Scary Pockets.