A short film from The School Of Life about the importance of speaking up when the time is right. To wit:
It can seem as though we all need to learn to be less angry – and that no one has any problem raising their voice and getting their opinions across. The truth is more nuanced. A sizeable number of us suffer from shyness about expressing our real needs and our true aspirations – and thereby do ourselves and others a disservice.
Previously: Listen Up
A post-societal world imagined by the digital artists of Universal Everything, who obviously had time on their hands during the lockdown.
A short by Parisian designer Benoit Leva illustrating why boxing up your emotions is never good for your mental heath.
A short directed by Dane Winn inspired by the true story of Ada Blackjack who was stranded for two years on the Arctic island of Wrangel in the 1920s. To wit:
Stranded on an arctic island with a dying man in 1921, an Alaskan seamstress must overcome her fears of the wilderness and find the strength to survive if she ever hopes to return home to her son.
Another fascinating video essay by The School Of Life. Are you listening? Anyone? Hello? To wit:
Though we all long to have our feelings and needs acknowledged, it seems that nothing is more common than for these to be neglected by people around us. We take so little time to listen to one another and to show that we have absorbed what people have told us. As a result, everyone gets increasingly angry and – deep inside – sad. The answer is to make the art of listening a global priority.
Previously: I Am Not My Body
Got a problem? Don’t worry, there’s a pill for that!
And that’s the problem. A short by Chris O’Hara.
When young musician Sam Seeger received an ominous phone call from his (presumably evangelistic) brother warning him to abandon his hellish muso ways, he recorded it, illustrated it and so the Internet got another theme tune.
Paper artist Blackhand applies his X-Acto knife to a ream of 1,400 stills of this dancer doing his thing.
The animated affect, which starts at 2.47, is worth the wait.
A animated cacophony of musical anecdotes animated by Miloš Tomic inspired by a conversation overheard on a bus where a young musician admitted facing her cello into traffic when crossing the road, in the hope that, if she was hit, the instrument would be smashed up first.
Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ updated version of his prescient 1970 lament to environmental destruction, set to an animated video by Chris Hopewell filmed on sets made with recycled materials, including trash from the ocean.
