Category Archives: Animation

A really rather excellent darkly comic stop-motion short by Irish director Vincent Gallagher featuring the rivalry between the world’s two oldest men – Frederick and Herman Butterfield – twins born a mere minute apart.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BFQdVCord0

A typography-filled 2014 adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘Peter And The Wolf’ by Gordon (Thierry Guernet), Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet, and Corentin Leconte of Camera Lucida for Radio France, featuring the National Orchestra of France, conducted by the maestro Daniele Gatti.

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A timely feature from The School Of Life. To wit:

Emotional maturity isn’t just something we can achieve in the good times. It’s a quality that can accompany us through the deepest crises.  A key idea to keep in mind is that it isn’t chiefly what happens to us that affects our lives, it’s how we learn to think about what has happened – and that, fortunately, is very much within our control.

Previously: All Together Now

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An award winning 2016 short by Russian animator and director Dina Velikovskaya in which a determinedly ambitious mother bird, obsessed with reaching the sun, finds herself distracted at the arrival of her similarly attired, newly hatched chick.

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