Category Archives: Video

You’ll like this.

‘Villon Song’ by East London minimalist folksters Stick In The Wheel (Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter), animated by Daniel Hardiker and Neil Hetherington of ZEROH. 

A cant song, translated into London slang by W.E. Henley – a ‘straight tip to all cross coves’. To wit:

For all your efforts to get money it’ll only be your ruin: “Booze and the blowens cop the lot”.

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A nicely baked short by Matthew Salton – and all true for all you know. To wit:

In 1968 Patty was a flight attendant, who realised she could smuggle prime pot in from Jamaica with relative ease, given her line of work. She is 77 years old now, and this is her version of what happened.

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Recently graduated animator Alan Jennings introduces us to the everyday wonders of Mr Bill Jennings, aka ‘Captain Zero’ aka ‘Willie Lump Lump’ aka ‘Toots’ of Newbury, Vermont – a man of many mundane and fabulous talents. To wit:

“I once saw him twirl a couch on a single finger.” 

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A rather excellent video for Ilhan Ersahin’s “Hurri-Mitanni (Good News)i” directed and animated by Gökalp Gönen in which a series of digitally camouflaged dancers morph and sway their way through (and tower above) the streets of Istanbul.

You may be reminded of this.

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A highly acclaimed short by Spanish animator Khris Cembe in which a sardonic father son relationship plays out on the coast of Galicia in Western Spain – Europe’s main gateway for Colombian marching powder.

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A very impressive kid-friendly short by German animation graduate Christoph Sarow: the story of a summer in the country with Tom, his aggressive cousin Mattias, simmering envy, an ocean of chickens, a red dog and the Universe.

You’ll see.

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Suitably briefed by  research scientist Dr Kurt Schwenk, zefrank wraps his prehensile mind around the topic of snakes, lizards, worm-lizards and their impressive, useful, frequently alarming tongues.

Previously: True Facts About Hummingbirds