Peckish?
A short by directing duo Burcu & Geoffrey. To wit:
A little journey through a forest full of creatures looking for a snack.
Category Archives: Animation
A short by Michael Marczewski. To wit:
…a group of little autonomous robots performing a range of repetitive functions, driven by mechanical devices. But as the mechanisms mercilessly start getting faster and faster, things take a turn for the worse for the helpless robots.
The relationship between a young girl and her dad reflected as they spend time together in a car driving along an endless road – an impressive graduation film by Lee Dror and Yali Herbet of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner’s short for Adult Swim’s Toonami in which a pair of explorers become stranded on a distant planet inhabited by a variety of bizarre lifeforms.
Animated reaction/diffusion patterns by French visual effects artist Maxime Causeret, set to a track from the album Emergence by Max Cooper. To wit:
…simple chemical feedback mechanisms can yield complex flowing bands of colour — these forms of system were originally thought up by Alan Turing, and were part of the early seeds of the field of systems biology, which seeks to simulate life with computers, in order to better understand the systems producing the complexity we see in the living world.
Headphones, full screen and whatever you’re having yourself recommended for full immersion.
A refreshing slap in the face from Harvard animation student Renee Zhan. To wit:
A suicidal pigeon contemplates his existence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72WQQMH6LZE
A distinctive, dialogue-free flat colour short by Luke Saunders. To wit:
The Fisherman is set in a neo-tokyo cityscape where electricity is a source of life for a diverse eco-system of mollusc like creatures. A late devoted scientist of these life forms has passed his life’s work on to his daughter, along with one part of his most prized catch. The other part, a mystical electric fish, has eluded him his entire life. An opportune discovery of this rare creature by a human inhabitant instigates an unusual mating ceremony, spawning a surge of life that traverses the gap between this life and the next.
Now for yeh.
An ongoing December-long project wherein Edinburgh based director Andrei Staruiala illustrates one Scottish saying a day.
Keep the heid.
Patrick Buhr’s weird and whispery, award-winning trip into the idle, absurd overthinkings of a flâneur.
