Nominated for Best Short at the 2020 British Animation Awards, Samantha Moore’s fabric animated documentary, inspired by the sounds of industrial sewing machines, tells the story of Manchester lingerie factory Ella And Me.
Category Archives: Animation
An extraordinary motion design sequence created by Norwegian studio Rebel Design for filmmaker Tonje Hessen-Schei’s documentary iHuman.
Afraid of intimacy? Beset by anxiety? Searching for some kind of meaning? Self-isolate no more – the School Of Life knows how you feel. To wit:
“We are, a lot of us, a great deal sadder, more anxious, more incomplete and more restless than we really need to be because of something very large that is missing from our lives. What’s worse, we don’t even know what this thing is and how much we crave it, because we don’t have the right concepts, experience or encouragement to help us locate it. What we long for and are slowly dying without is: community.
Tough times ahead, so.
Previously: No One Cares
A surreal short by Peter Tomaszewicz and Christiana Perdiou in which everyday objects are rather less so.
A delicious CG short by Lukas Vojir of XK Studio with sound design by Resonate. To wit:
…the answer to an age old question. Do androids crave virtual food?
A crêpetacular short by Tom Wrigglesworth and Matt Robinson about a boy’s action packed voyage to the moon – in which pancakes (600 in total) are used as the medium of chNOMNOMNOMNOM.
A cute entomological short by Doug Alberts of Ringling College of Art And Design. To wit:
A newly explored place where bugs can be bugs.
An award-winning short by Australian animation director Mikey Hill. To wit:
In a world filled with beautiful music, Vernon always seems to strike the wrong note.
A Royal College Of Art, London graduation short by Natasza Cetner inspired by the true story of Nigel, the lonely gannet of Mana Island who fell hopelessly in love with a concrete statue.
His tragic tale of idealisation and delusion shows us a reflection of our own misconceptions in love.
Mmf.
A short – inspired by (and rendered on) Herman Melville’s classic tale by French animator Marie Paccou – with a twist. To wit:
For obvious budget restrictions, the Pequod has been turned into a kind of launch boat and you have to imagine all the crew hidden in the hold.