A multi-award winning short (and playable app) drawn by Michael Frei, coded by Mario von Rickenbach and pleasing to behold if you like your animations episodic and your identical characters tiny.
Category Archives: Animation
The sleep-deprived dusk till dawn experience of a new mother captured in a semi-autobiographical short by Neta Cohen. to wit:
The intense sensations, both physical and mental, of becoming a mother for the first time, coupled with extreme sleep deprivation, made me feel hazy yet overly susceptible, tired yet extremely tense. I was so tuned into the slightest, most subtle movements and sounds, that I could literally feel my home surroundings waking to life around me.
Endgame
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An uncharacteristically existential animation from German educational design studio Kurzgesagt that asks “how do you know what to do with your life?’
Whoa.
To wit:
It’s so easy to get lost in your daily life: there are so many “urgent” and “annoying” things that you forget that actually every day is special, sort of. And even more so the days we have with friends and family. I know watching a video like this can hit pretty hard. But at least for me, the message it tries to convey does make me actually change my behavior. Reprioritize things. You know. Hope it had a similar effect for some of you.
Levitations
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Sila Sveta’s original award-winning art/dance piece and its even more ambitious sequel, showing the progression from small projection-mapped set to extensive digital stage.
Stick around for behind the scenes footage at the end.
Hello.
A graduation short by Yannay Matarasso & Anat Efrati – easily the most uneasy chat show you’ll see today.
a memorable black and white short by Donato Sansone featuring the nightmarish cyclical tale of one man’s encounter with a disembodied head and a disembowelled cat.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt turns to a sobering truth of astrophysics: the fact that 94% of the observable Universe is so far from us that we will never go there, even if we achieve light-speed travel. To wit:
…there is a cosmological horizon around us. Everything beyond it, is traveling faster, relative to us, than the speed of light. So everything that passes the horizon, is irretrievably out of reach forever and we will never be able to interact with it again. In a sense it’s like a black hole’s event horizon, but all around us. 94% of the galaxies we can see today have already passed it and are lost to us forever.
And if that twists your melon, consider this: by the time you’ve watched the video, 22 million more stars will have drifted off beyond our reach.
A short by Joseph Bennett in which a banal conversation between two birdwatchers (voiced by comedian and co-writer Joe Pera) turns into an existential discussion about humanity’s place in the Universe.
