Category Archives: Animation

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Finnish animator Jenni Rahkonen’s 2012 graduation film from Turku Arts Academy.

The time-honoured tale of the merry-go-round. To wit:

The world won’t stop turning, even when one stops turning with it.

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A  nightmarish deMickeyfication by Korean artist Kim Byungkwan who sez of his ouevre:

What I would like to express through my work is very simple. I am trying to bring out strangeness from familiarity.

Nailed It.

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A 2015 Oscars long-listed metaphor for the encroaching hegemony of giant multiples over local shops, UK animator Robert Grieves’ short is the tale of a turf war between two market vendors and the competitive trader who muscles in on their square.

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