Category Archives: Animation

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Highly derivative of Pixar’s Wall-E but still very cute, this highly accomplished short by VFX graduate Shawn Wang (his Communication University of China graduation thesis film) tells the tale of two exploratory rovers sent to trial plant growth on a potentially inhabitable planet.

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A new animation from the PBS Blank On Blank series featuring an excerpt from a 1958 interview with the English novelist Aldous Huxley by Mike Wallace. To wit:

This is Aldous Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. Mr. Huxley wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that some day the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us. In this remarkable interview, Huxley foretells a future when telegenic presidential hopefuls use television to rise to power, technology takes over, drugs grab hold, and frightful dictatorships rule us all.

Prevously: Gene Wilder Talks Truth

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A new animation from artist Jake Fried who uses layers of ink, gouache, correction fluid and coffee to build up his animations – each layers covering the previous one, invariably resulting in a completed canvas several inches thick.

Previously: Night Vision

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An excerpt from a 2008 Atlantic interview with director David Lynch, designed and directed by Jackie Lay. To wit:

A lot of artists think that suffering is necessary. But in reality, any kind of suffering cramps the flow of creativity.

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