If you missed our “New Psychedelica in Music Videos” screenings at the Lowlands Festival or MU gallery, you are cordially invited to tune in, turn on, and drop out with the selected videos using these two 2Pause “New Psychedelica” playlists. Groovy! Read more about our “New Psychedelica in Music Videos” program.
Doudouboy is a French illustrator and animator whose mysterious short Magic Lantern Deluxe (here on Vimeo) was featured on the Best of Submarine Channel DVD. FFWD> to 2011. 2Pause features Doudouboy’s latest music video, “made together with my girlfriend John Deneuve,” Doudouboy writes in an email. (John is not a boy. We checked). “She’s an … Continued
No, this is not an Edvard Munch painting, or an undiscovered Van Gogh (from his “Potato Eaters” period). Blown Minded is a seriously mind-blowing (pun!), as well as turbulently expressive music video done by a painter-photographer by the name of Carine Khalifé. Khalifé uses painting combined with stop-motion animation. The poetically meandering analogue brush strokes … Continued
French Fridays on Watch the Titles features the opening credits for Roman Polanski’s first color feature, The Fearless Vampire Killers. The lovely hand-drawn credits were designed by one of the most important French creators of the last decades, André François – one of the first title designers who played with the logo of a major … Continued
The first post in a special program on French title design 1950’s -1980’s, co-curated by Hervé Tissot and Laure Chapalain. Graphic designer/cartoonist cum celebrated crime novelist Tito Topin‘s end credit sequence for Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful is a provocative piece of vintage 1970’s pop art. Topin combines socio-political criticism with his … Continued
We get too few Asian title sequences on Watch the Titles. Why? Because it’s not a norm for local (Asian) filmmakers to invest in creative title sequences. Says Josef Lee, founder of the leading Singaporean design studio Mojo, who is making a serious effort to bring the creative title sequence into focus in Asia. We … Continued
The kids spy movie Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore left most critics unimpressed, which could explain why the uncompromisingly stylish James Bond-inspired title sequence by Imaginary Forces (IF) slipped past everyone’s radar. Well, almost… Using the original storyboards, IF’s creative director Michelle Dougherty takes us through the process of creating the title … Continued
We couldn’t help but notice: Dutch talent is out in full force right about now! Director Henk Loorbach (of hand-drawn mustache fame) made this splendid lo-fi hand-job for Noisia, following the exploits of a solitary (but agile!) metacarpus beating Thing from The Addams Family at his own handy game… And if it’s Blade Runny, rotoscoped … Continued
Title designer Paul Donnellon of VooDooDog talks about the process of creating the stop-motion end credit sequence for Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. In little over 10 weeks, Donnellon and his team delivered a fabulous happy-go-lucky sequence, all the while dealing with a director who was unfamiliar with the animation workflow. A story about … Continued
Well if this isn’t cause for celebration, our name’s Aunt Fanny! Our very first MiniMovies, a spectacular documentary shot entirely in the virtual universe about a missing Californian male called Molotov Alva who shows up in Second Life, has been selected for The Animation Show of Shows by Acme Filmworks as one of – and … Continued
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