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Café

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

dir: Marta Mackova, 5min—Café is a stylish short revealing the imaginative interplay in a bar where a lone girl sips her drink and eyes up the talent. She has her gaze and aspirations set on the quiet guy diligently reading his book. Meanwhile the (buxom) bar girl tidies up the tables much to the delight […]

Fifty Percent Grey

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

dir: Ruairi Robinson, 3min—Now is a good time to catch up on some of the greats that we may have missed. For example, the Oscar-nominated animation, Fifty Percent Grey. This dark comedy explores the age-old question of what happens after death. A recently deceased soldier finds himself in a serene grey paradise with nothing but […]

Geraldine

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Arthur De Pins, 9min—When viewing the work of Arthur De Pins one is in familiar territory of the born cartoonist. He is a natural artist able to turn out comic caricatures seemingly at will. I could have selected any of three films to feature though his 2001 Géraldine was his first film and launched him […]

En Tus Brazos

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

dir: François-Xavier Goby, Matthieu Landour and Edouard Jouret, 5 min—The one thing that surveying films in all their vast variety on the internet teaches you is that great work can spring up from anywhere. A kid working away on a laptop in his bedroom is just as likely to blow you away with creativity and […]

Muto

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

by Blu, 7min—Often an old story makes a splash when it’s told in a new way, given new context, or played out on a larger scale. Muto does all of these. Here, the familiar morph animation takes on a new face where characters animate across the real-life streets and buildings of Buenos Aires.

Blu, a street […]

Dad’s Clock

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

dir: Dik Jarman, 7min—With a background in puppet animation and a thriving commercial practice as an architect, Dik Jarman celebrated the life of his late father in a very special autobiographical account of a complex relationship. Fearing at first that animating the story might be too clichéd, Dik was persuaded by friends and family that […]

Tales of Mere Existence: How To Break Up

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Lev Yilmaz, 2:57—With his sharp, dry humor, Lev’s Tales of Mere Existence, cuts deep into life’s small yet painful truths.
Birthed from the real-life situations and obsessions of Lev himself, Tales captures Lev’s strange series of encounters including A Typical Conversation With My Mom, Procrastination, and I’m Not Going to Think About Her. As an introduction […]

Une Histoire Vertebrale

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Jérémy Clapin, 9:10—In the eternal race to find love and happiness, some unfortunate souls start with a handicap. It is the case of the man we join as we start jump into Une Histoire Vertebrale (A Backbone Tale), a short animated movie by Jérémy Clapin, produced by Strapontin.
A malformation of his backbone forces our hero […]

A Journey Across Grandmother

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Meghana Bisineer, 5:21—Having purchased a new iPod recently I recognise there is beauty to be found in economy and abridgement. Meghana Bisineer’s six minute movie, A Journey Across Grandmother, delivers just these qualities. Its story is a touching one, the relationship of an infant girl with her revered, dying grandmother. Events unfold over the summer […]

The Pearce Sisters

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

dir: Luis Cook, 9:15—In the words of its makers, The Pearce Sisters—a short film based on the story by Mick Jackson and produced by Aardman Animations—is “a bleak hearted tale of love, loneliness, guts, gore, nudity, violence, smoking and cups of tea.” And you know how well tea parties and loneliness mix. Enter the sisters, […]