A nicely baked short by Matthew Salton – and all true for all you know. To wit:
In 1968 Patty was a flight attendant, who realised she could smuggle prime pot in from Jamaica with relative ease, given her line of work. She is 77 years old now, and this is her version of what happened.
Recently graduated animator Alan Jennings introduces us to the everyday wonders of Mr Bill Jennings, aka ‘Captain Zero’ aka ‘Willie Lump Lump’ aka ‘Toots’ of Newbury, Vermont – a man of many mundane and fabulous talents. To wit:
“I once saw him twirl a couch on a single finger.”
A rather excellent video for Ilhan Ersahin’s “Hurri-Mitanni (Good News)i” directed and animated by Gökalp Gönen in which a series of digitally camouflaged dancers morph and sway their way through (and tower above) the streets of Istanbul.
You may be reminded of this.
A highly acclaimed short by Spanish animator Khris Cembe in which a sardonic father son relationship plays out on the coast of Galicia in Western Spain – Europe’s main gateway for Colombian marching powder.
A very impressive kid-friendly short by German animation graduate Christoph Sarow: the story of a summer in the country with Tom, his aggressive cousin Mattias, simmering envy, an ocean of chickens, a red dog and the Universe.
You’ll see.
A dialogue-free ink-on-paper short by east London based animator Elizabeth Hobbs, based on the Grimm Brothers’ ‘The Fisherman And His Wife’.
As in the original fairytale, an enchanted flounder offers to improve a fisherman’s life in exchange for sparing his own but – again and again – both are thwarted by the outrageous, spiralling demands of the fisherman’s wife.
Of course, it’s all a metaphor, and if you watch closely in the final minute, you’ll see what for.
A rather adorable short directed by Catherine Prowse for Childline about the anxieties of growing up and the futility of bottling them inside.
And if you liked that, you may care for the equally cute ‘making of’ feature.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt explains how the life of cells hinges on motion – like breathing – and another, rather less controllable regulator of life: size.
Previously: Brave New World
A National Film Board Of Canada funded collaboration between director Andrea Dorfman and poet Tanya Davis with gentle but useful advice about staying connected and sane while isolated.
We thought about going there but decided it would have been a cheap shot.
A melodic short about two kleptomaniac stoner removal men by Alexandre Nart of Parisian animation studio Passion Pictures.
Not a series. But if it was, we’d watch that series.
