Cope and Robbers – a graduation short by Florian Maubach dealing with the uncertainties of adolescence. To wit:
While playing Cops and Robbers with his friends, Daniel begins to realise that between catching and being caught there is something more going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouiGBdiGPU0
The role of the telephone in cinematic horror over the decades explored in a well-researched visual essay by Film Qualia.
A blistering, hypnotic montage of aerial imagery from around the globe, from which a multiplicity of pattern and commonality emerges.
If the approach of Sligo based director and animator Kevin McGloughlin seems familiar, you may have seen the work of his twin brother and collaborator, Páraic.
Previously: Arena & Sligodelic
A short by Parisian motion designer and animator Raphaël Bluzet in which an astronaut (voiced by Gary Dourdan) discusses the challenges of life in space.
A surreal stop motion claymation by Guldies Konst which uses sound effects to satisfying effect – imbuing the constantly morphing forms with solidity and weight.
A really rather excellent mashup of The Blues Brothers and Men In Black (with cameos from Critters, The Thing, Aliens, Guardians Of The Galaxy, E.T. and more) by master video mashup artist and filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu.
More of his work here.
A charming little ditty by dapper musician Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq, performed last November at Boyds of Bedford.
All together now…
A short film by Fritz Schumann about the ascetic Yamabushi mountain hermits of Japan who practice a once forbidden religion. To wit:
While their tradition is at risk of disappearing, it offers a way for those seeking a different path in Japan’s society.Walking barefoot through rivers, meditating under waterfalls and spending the nights on mountaintops — that is the way of the Yamabushi.
A short by Chinese animation student Enge Xue in which a Rubik’s Cube-headed man in a Rubik’s Cube-headed world attempts to maintain connection when the colours of his face become mixed up. Also, he’s in his tights-whiteys.
