You’ve probably seen one or two YouTube videos of people dancing in front of their camera’s. Now this uber-viral appeared on YouTube and we can safely say it tops all of them. Boasting a staggering 5,116,410 views (at the time of writing), this videos features some bloke called Matt who’s filmed himself (or is filmed) … Continued
Intelligent Eye Candy The progressive British DVD label C0C0S0L1DC1TY operates in the vanguard of the audiovisual arts. Pronounced Coco-Solid-City I guess, this label is not about eye candy alone. It’s about fostering high brow collaborative projects between visual artists – animators, designers, filmmakers and the like – and (electronic) musicians that actually have something to … Continued
Chris Ware, best-known for a series of comics called the Acme Novelty Library and Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, has produced another amazing piece of work. Brimming with geometric comic charm, this short story is narrated by the “husband and wife” and serves as an animated opening for This American Life, a 15-year-old, … Continued
The new Arthur Jones short (the genius of Post-It Note Stories fame) is called ‘I Like Jessica’. It’s an animation of a phone conversation between author Rodney Rothman and the first girl he ever kissed, way back in Junior High. You simply must check out the cheeky conversation. ‘I Still Like Jessica’ was commissioned by … Continued
A big shout-out to Run Wrake! He completed a new short and what a nice one it is. Just like his Rabbit, that extraordinary little gem about two kids that slice up a rabbit and won’t live long to tell it, The Control Master is an animation that consists entirely of vintage images. The children’s … Continued
We have a new Chunk for you all. It’s pretty clear cut. It’s an animation, it’s distorted and it’s cool. However, some questions remain. Questions such as; Are we being visually abused or is Nils Muhlenbruch abusing the visual images? Maybe the images are about abuse? What ever the case, one cannot argue that the … Continued
“Golf is like sex, it’s sticks and balls…” Straight8 is a one of a kind film festival that “takes you back to the original medium of cinema … and makes you think visually,” according to Alice Lowe. Together with Jacqueline Wright, Lowe directed ‘Sticks and Balls’ – their campy, tongue-in-cheek parody of golf culture was … Continued
Although the short time-lapse film about the making of his paper-cuts is quit boring, Javan Ivey’s stop-motion film My Paper Mind is absolutely beautiful. In this experimental animation Javan explores the possibilities of the Stratastencil-technique which he invented himself. The result is amazing, we especially like the flowmotion of the swing.
Sometimes old News is good news. This little fire cracker of a film, by the Amsterdam design collective News was first screened in 2005. If you’re a serious sneaker fetishist you might not want to see this. It could be difficult to watch! The pair of sneaks featured are the collectors item Air Jordans IV … Continued
For all of you concerned citizens out there, this is a public service announcement about climate change and what YOU can do about it. Okay, we know you’re not used to this from SubmarineChannel, but believe me, this is worth it. A Beginners Guide to Giving A Damn… About Climate Change was animated and directed … Continued
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