Toronto-based boutique film studio the Purchase Brothers, have created a short film inspired by the sci-fi first-person shooter game Half-Life 2. On a budget of just $500, the resourceful indie duo filmed the first two episodes with no crew, no script and very little time, as security patrols tried to hunt them down. Intended as … Continued
Time for a slow, high-art treat after yesterday’s machinima/live action hybrid snack. Animate Projects (one of our fav 10 curated video platforms) just released online a new film by the acclaimed visual artists duo Jane and Louise Wilson. ‘Unfolding the Aryan Papers‘ tells the story of Stanley Kubrick‘s abandoned film project about the Holocaust ‘Aryan … Continued
Got the Valentines Schmalentines blues? This little stop motion should put a smile on your face. Watch as household objects frot themselves into a lusty frenzy over an emotive, piano-heavy soundtrack. While cheese and chorizo find love in the privacy of their fridge, chocolate bonbons openly conduct an orgy on the kitchen table. Dry, raspy … Continued
He won the hallowed peace prize. Some professed outrage, others popped open the Veuve. And yet others painstakingly plotted individual pixels to create a frenzy of Obama animated Gifs! We heart Gifologist Mark Portillo, and guess what: he’s making animated Gif portraits of the entire SubmarineChannel editorial team next. Watch this space!
Anita Fontaine, the electro-craft mistress who brought us Second Life’s celebrated Harlequin Lodge, has modified the violent Unreal Tournament video game to poppy, pink-hued new ends. A retro-futuristic cyber visual overload takes the player on a mission to join the kawaii-influenced religious cult of CuteXdoom, where the worship of fluffy material objects and obsessive consumption … Continued
The web is the perfect digital shoebox for archiving obsolete, ephemeral web phenomena like the Preloader. In pre-broadband days, the preloader replaced the boring old progress bar for something more original, creative and funny. Its function was of course to keep our eyes focused firmly on our screens, while we waited for those flash-heavy websites … Continued
Veteran Danish artist collective Superflex (Anno 1993) have a knack of making socio-political commentary without being all waggy-fingered and worthy. Flooded McDonald’s is a 20-minute film in which a life-size interior replica of everyone’s favorite ethically catastrophic diner, slowly gets flooded with water (recycled, naturellement). As the water continues to rise, the familiar-looking golden-arch-heavy fast … Continued
Who knew paper craft could be so chichi? Following up from his award-winning Procrastination piece, Johnny Kelly’s first major project since joining Nexus follows the life-cycle of an apple seed. In an interview with Creative Review, Kelly sheds light on the painstaking animation process, saying, “everything was hand folded and glued. Myself and Elin Svensson, … Continued
For the first time in the history of humanity, there are more people living in cities than in the countryside. Fact! And of those many billions of city-dwellers, every 1 in 3 is living in a slum. The Places We Live is an immersive online documentary produced by the celebrated agency Magnum Photos, which introduces … Continued
OneDotZero alum Richard Fenwick’s site is worth going back to. The classic Safety Procedures alone is worth the visit. Coining a “cute gore” animation genre, his pure animation work features an unsettling blend of soothing instructional voices (occasionally peppered with muted screams) and gruesome cartoony visuals, that make for an irresistibly chilling ensemble.
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