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A rather pleasing paint-on-glass animation written and directed by Carol Freeman, comprised of 4,300 paintings created by a team of mainly female artists at Paper Panther Productions in Dublin. To wit:
…the story of a young whale, struggling to find its voice, who finds a caged bird that is the sole survivor of a shipwreck
And here’s how they made it.
A new stop motion short by the excellent Kirsten Lapore, proving that if you wait long enough, you (or your kind) will end up as an exhibit in someone else’s natural history museum.
Previously: Move Mountain
A minimalist short by Blue Zoo Animation visualises the common frustrations inherent in brainstorming by committee.
Ever get the feeling that things are not as they should be?
Here’s German educational design studio Kurzgesagt with the cure. To wit:
In this video we want to talk about one of the strongest predictors of how happy people are, how easily they make friends and how good they are at dealing with hardship. An antidote against dissatisfaction so to speak: Gratitude.
Previously: Space Catapult
An outstanding short animated in minimalist pen and ink by Randall Christopher telling the story of the chase and final capture in 1960 of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann by the Mossad agent Zvi Aharoni.
The (dramatically) dry reality of a dogged manhunt turned into a spy thriller.
Another wonderfully bizarre, richly soundscaped morphing shenanigans by Guldies Konst – six months and 2,500 images in the making.
Previously: Distortion
Phil Edwards from the Vox Almanac series explores the origins of the oldest form of filmed animation – favoured by Aardman, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson but first popularised over a century ago by insect collector Wladyslaw Starewicz . To wit:
His 1912 film, The Cameraman’s Revenge, was the most significant of those early experiments. By that time, he’d been discovered as a precocious museum director in a Lithuanian Natural History Museum, and that enabled him to make movies. The Cameraman’s Revenge was his boldest experiment yet, depicting a tryst between star-crossed (bug) lovers.
A time-limited chance to see Tomek Popakul’s Oscar long-listed semi-autobiographical short: the story of Young and Skinny, whose chance encounter on a bridge leads to a disturbing, mushroom-fuelled trip.
