An award-winning 2017 stop motion short by Canadian animator Eva Cvijanović based on a children’s book of the same name by Serbian novelist Branko Ćopić.
Come for the charming needle-felt aesthetic (reminiscent of Wes Anderson’s ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’), stay for the classic storytelling.
There’s no place like home.
A fascinating film by Insider showing how Dr Marten boots are made at the Cobb’s Lane factory in Wollaston, Northamptonshire.
An arresting one-take short by Australian director Tom Noakes. To wit:
Why is a metalhead singing ‘Old MacDonald’ on the side of a rural highway?
Let’s rubberneck, shall we?
Pete Drake’s 1964 country blues hit ‘Forever’ – featuring the sonic stylings of the ‘talk box’ applied to a steel guitar long before Peter Frampton and Joe Walsh made their regular guitars ‘talk’ in the 1970s.
But long before any of that, there was the Sonovox.
A fascinating filmic short directed by Christian Stangl with score by Wolfgang Stangl combining thousands of images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft.
The sequences are digitally enhanced real-footage from the probe.
An adorable short by Emily Brundige in which a giant girl (voiced by Charlyne Yi) feels out of scale in her colourful little town, only to realise she takes up just the right amount of space.
Soon to be an animated series.
Behold: LEGO’s biggest (but not most complex) set to date – a 4,784 piece model of the Imperial Star Destroyer. 110cm long by 94cm wide with swiveling guns, tilting radar dish, and a scale model of the Rebels’ Tantive IV.
Available next month for €700.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWxi-9LMkoI
A grainy outtake from an unnamed Korean film.
Wait for it though.
A very pleasing performance on the sansula – a modern version of the traditional African mbira – by percussionist Conny Sommer.
An interesting video essay on the Quent’s deft use of music in the soundtracks of his films by Daniel Netzel of Film Radar.
