A short by Chinese digital artist Yi Le, inspired by a visit to Norway, featuring a sample from ‘You are a Miracle’ by Alan Watts and thereby telling the strange tale of a planet where mysterious experiments are being conducted to restore nature.
Full screen for the fine detail.
A short by Edinburgh based animator Dan Castro about not opening up, the pressures we self-impose and the importance of being kind to ourselves. To wit:
After a lifetime of feeling fat, a young man realises that maybe his issues with his body aren’t actually about his body at all.
A monochromatic 2D short by Marie Opron for French animation studio Miyu Productions that tells the claustrophobic tale of one man’s inability to escape city life.
A powerful short about perception and realisation by Sandralee Zinzen and Nicolas Nivesse of the PÔLE 3D School at Roubaix, northern France. To wit:
A teenage girl is staring at herself in a mirror. She doesn’t like what she sees; fat, skinny, ugly, she looks like a monster. Maybe she should just take a step back and realize she’s not that monstrous.
Actual and until now unreleased phone conversations between Canadian author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson, recorded in 2010 as Marynick researched his book ‘Charles Manson Now’, illustrated in suitably helter-skelterish psychedelic style by Leah Shore.
A film noir style CGI graduation short by students of Supinfocom Valenciennes in France. To wit:
After a heist that goes wrong, a frail robot who was the driver of a robot mafia ends up being in possession of some loot he shouldn’t have, a human heart. Tempted by the opportunity of being like his bosses, he grafts the heart to himself and discovers the feeling of being alive. But those brief instants of life have a price.
A hand-drawn short by Tim Rauch telling the day tale of two friends who fall asleep under a tree, after the burial of a pet frog, only to wake in a strange nightmarish world.
Quite brilliant and easily the maddest thing you’ll see today – the animated video for French black metal/breakcore artist Gautier ‘Igorr’ Serre’s ‘Very Noise’ created by art collective Meat Dept.
A short by Darcy Prendergast in response to the Australian bushfire crisis. To wit:
…a rallying cry for hope, in a country increasingly scarce of it.
Milo Targett’s themed short for Adult Swim’s surreal ‘Off The Air’ series. To wit:
After a botched attempt at backstreet eye surgery, a man begins noticing repulsive microscopic patterns on the people he meets.
