An impressive multi award-winning short by Russian animator Anna Budanova based on the ancient folk tale wherein the souls of the drowned are transformed into shape shifting seals, or selkies.
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The short and brutal tale of a bungled heist directed by the Megacomputeur collective at Supinfocom Arles for Passion Animation Studios.
Join Astronaut Commander Shepard Headstrong on his adventures across the galaxy in the year 372,054 at the helm of a ship fashioned from his own DNA.
An unhinged original short by Canadian writer/director team, Chris Prynoski and Michael Moloney.
Just go with it.
Ever felt that life was a tedious, never-ending cycle of futility?
Only every moment of the waking day sez you.
A looping animated GIF has an existential crisis in this festival-pleasing short by Scottish animator Will Anderson.
An animated promo for the book of the same name by Carlo Rovelli, animated by Justin Botcherby. Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.
Presented with the sober brief of ‘animal dressage’ by his tutors at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, student animator David Stumpf imagined a tale of drunken oafishness in an old Western town, complete with all the clichés of the genre, admitting:
Most of the ideas were based on my notebook, full of drunken cowboys, naked women, bandits, and hens…
An evocative and rather gorgeous short by London based animator Izzy Burton wherein one man’s journey through life is charted by way of a series of universal experiences.
See the ‘making-of’ featurette here.
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Ever feel trapped in your job? If so, prepare to connect with the protagonist of Anete Melece’s graduation short. To wit:
For years now, the kiosk has been Olga‘s little home simply because her sweet tooth and monotonous life has made her bigger than the exit. To distract herself, she reads travel magazines and dreams of being far away. An absurd incident starts the beginning of her journey.
Enter the icy fictional space of a mysterious research facility in the Arctic ‘suspected of running unholy experiments on human consciousness’ in a haunting short by ‘fractal filmmaker’ Julius Horsthuis.
MUSIC: Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) by Irma Thomas (stretched 500%)