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
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
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.
South African artist collective The Black Heart Gang have created an epic hand-drawn animation on an audiobed of kabuki-inspired operatic warbling. The Tale of How has a Biblical/Apocalyptic feel to it, as intricate visuals depict the story of Otto, a tyrannical octopus who shamelessly munches on the innocent Dodos living atop his head – before … Continued
We loved Four H‘s 3D animated Lego fashion film for Jean-Charles de Castelbajac so much (see our top 5 favorite online fashion films), we just had to add it to our collection of Chunks. We had an email chat with Four H’s charming creative director, Nicolas Cornet, to see if we could get to the … Continued
An online premiere at SubmarineChannel: The short films of Sietske Tjallingii (that’s Miss T to you – you’re welcome) celebrate home-made glue-and-sticky tape special effects, combining a sharp wit with subversive commentary on everything from religious fundamentalism to military supremacy to female stereotyping (in a vampy catsuit, no less). Since graduating from the audiovisual department … Continued
This 13-and-a-half minutes animated labor of love by Norwegian-Italian cross-media artist Niko Stumpo, is a sinister yet spell-binding voyage laced with death, failure, and monsters… It’s a hoot, honestly! We had a little chat with Mr. Stumpo (a.k.a Abnormal Behaviour Child) to see if his mind is as twisted as this masterpiece would have you … Continued
Why torture yourself by sitting through feature-length 1980s action movies, when you could just watch the super-compact versions re-worked by Brit rappers Mouthmaster Murf and DJ Mayhem? Their two meticulously crafted Youtube clips sum up Robocop and Predator in just a few minutes, mixing the original film and dialogue with cleverly cut beats and rhymes.
The boys who bought us melting chocolate bunny carnage in Chocolade Haas have teamed up again for MTV’s new OOOH! series of hipster-wooing shorts. This time around, Amsterdam-based duo Sander Plug & Lernert Engelberts, have re-created an 18th century glass harp in MTV-friendly technicolors for their short Make a big effort to sound like ‘M’.
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