Category Archives: Animation

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Raymond C Lai’s surreal tale of two brothers taking a stand against gangs and customers reusing tiny roses in glass tubes as crack pipes at their cartoon corner shop.

StarringĀ  Randall Park (he of Veep) and Dwayne Perkins of Late Night With Conan O’Brien.

It’s 22 minutes long and best approached as the pilot for some class of a mad sitcom.

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An animated parable produced by Brazilian animation studio Vetor Zero for the Global Commission on Drug Policy that uses a fairytale setting to highlight the disastrous failure of the war on drugs.

The dragon is the war. No wait, the king is drugs and the dragon is the people and the…man, is anyone else hungry?

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An atmospheric stop motion short by John Eyre and Robin Heap in which a dark and foreboding world is crumbling. Trapped on an upper floor of a dilapidated office building, a boy must escape.

The Palace

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Adam Buxton channels Bowie recording the ‘rivetingly depressing’ Warszawa (1977) with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti in this nifty animation by the mighty Brothers McLeod.

Because he can.

Previously: 365

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(H/T: Dylan)

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London-based animator Steve Cutts‘ superb reflection on the indignity of life after fame for former toon celebrities, gruffly narrated by a bloated, world-weary Jessica Rabbit.

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(H/T: Ivan Moran)