A new animation by artist Jake Fried who blends ink, gouache, white-out and coffee to build up his animations in layers, each one covering the previous one, invariably resulting in a completed canvas several inches thick.
Previously by Jake Fried: Head Space
A short film directed by Jack Cunningham for the California Inspires Me Project, a collaboration between The California Sunday Magazine & Google Play.
A personal recollection by actress and comic book author Rashida Jones of the fleeting ‘post 60s, pre-paparazzi’ era of Los Angeles.
An experimental collaboration between thirty artists from London based animation studio Blue Zoo, none of whom knew what the others were doing.
An impressive, multi award-winning graduation film by Alexandra Hetmerov in which single mother Medusa struggles to find a boyfriend that her son Minotaur approves of.
Animator Alessandra Novelli’s take on of the parable ‘Before the Law’ from Franz Kafka’s The Trial. To wit:
Peasant and Guardian are the same character, the peasant, like each one of us, in front of his own fear; the guardian, something shapeless, that surrounds and controls him – the Door/Gate the possibilities we encounter during our life.
Anatomic by Henning M Lederer and Max Cooper – part of an audio-visual live performance by Max Cooper. To wit:
A continuous journey into the human machine
An award winning 2014 graduation film by Sophie Koko Gate. To wit:
We are all born as wet as a banana, around 75% water. By the time we reach adulthood that amount goes down to 54% water. Gus bumps into Tiny Eyes at dusk, on the eve of his 25th birthday.
An award-winning short by Kobi Vogman. To wit:
A wool puppet and a wooden bench are the characters in a huge foggy world. The puppet wants to leave but find it harder then expected.
