A short by students Jakob Fløtre Eiring and Konrad Hjeml of Volda University College in Norway, inspired by Eiring’s “loud and obnoxious” yawning session at breakfast one morning.
You may struggle to suppress the urge to yawn (but in a good way)
And learn a useful new word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-tEOejLd-c
A haunting pre-lockdown short by Geoffrey De Crécy.
An ode to the solitude of machines.
Mmf.
A computer generated paean to the legendary Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing by João Elias, performed on, and above, a virtual Bonneville salt flats.
A Blender Animation short directed by Hjalti Hjalmarsson in which the background scenery of what appears to be a side scrolling game turns out to be recollections of the tragic past life of the protagonist as she sprints through the ‘stages’, turbo-boosted by shots of caffeine
A vintage style monochrome stop-motion short by Belgian director Soetkin Verstegen who describes it as a “miniature cinema inside an ice cube”, inspired by the true story of a century-old box of negatives found preserved in the ice of Antarctica.
You’ll see.
An impressive animated video by Oskar Alvarado for a new tune by techno duo MachineCode (Dean Rodell and Current Value) – a science fiction future world loosely inspired by the ancient Mesoamerican myth of the serpent deity, Kukulkan.
A very pleasing hand-drawn short by Ho Tsz Wing set to ‘Catgot’ by UK-based electronica duo ISAN.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt answers the single most salient question of our time:
Could the moon be destroyed, showering the earth in a rain of meteoric death?
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An unsettling, surreal, award-winning 2019 short by Hungarian Royal College Of Art graduate Luca Toth. She sez of it:
I wanted to make a surrealistic movie about how someone falls in love
An atmospheric 2016 short by Gabrielle Lissot. To wit:
A young woman follows a trail of coloured threads that leads deep into a thick dark forest, untangling them as she goes, hoping to find the answers to her lingering fears.
