Short of the Week

Adventure

Adventure about Other Worlds in Stop-Motion
Tom Jenkins / 3 min / UK / 2011

When everyone leaves for the night, the objects in the office take over the computers to experience the outside world in this stop-motion animation powered by Google Street View.

Adventure about Other Worlds in Flash Animation
Mike Roberts / 6 min / Canada / 2011

A man takes a ride through the afterlife with four rockabilly musicians in this rich animation featuring music by The Sadies.

Adventure about Love in Stop-Motion

When the bookstore closes, the characters on the book covers come alive in this collaboration between designer Olympia Le-Tan and filmmaker Spike Jonze.

Adventure about Growth in Animation
Delphine Dussoubs / 5 min / France / 2011

A young monkey, initiated by his master, will pass his transition to adulthood. He will have to fight fire, metaphor for his fear of growing up, by taming the sound of the sacred djembe, symbol of independence.

Adventure about Human Nature in Animation
Dylan White / 3 min / UK / 2011

A son recounts the legend of his father, an avid hunter whose collection lacked only one mythical beast…

Adventure about Art in Animation
Léo Verrier / 8 min / France / 2011

A man can take on elements of fine art that he eats, in this deliciously well-designed French animation.

Adventure about Nature in 3D Animation
Chris Perry / 11 min / USA / 2011

In the dry desert the only water supply is under siege by an unlikely crew of saboteurs.

Adventure about Conspiracy in Collage Animation
Andrew S Allen / 10 min / USA / 2011

Professor White is close to cracking the notorious, unsolved Thomas Beale Cipher, purported to hide the location of a fortune in gold in this animation by site founder Andrew S Allen.

Adventure about Friendship in Animation
Pendleton Ward / 8 min / USA / 2010

Cartoon pilot for all ages that blends sharp writing with stylistic characters into perhaps the coolest cartoon series in recent years.

Adventure about Childhood in 3D Animation

This ethereal animation from Gobelins tells a familiar story of losing one’s innocence

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Adventure about Other Worlds in 3D Animation
Shane Acker / 10 min / USA / 2009

The most acclaimed student work of the decade is this post-apocalyptic CG action short out of UCLA, which won the director the right to adapt it to the big screen.

Adventure about Nature in Animation
Erick Oh / 8 min / South Korea / 2009

A dung beetle sets out to roll his prized find back along the long road home.

Adventure about Perseverence in Stop-Motion
Tomas Mankovsky / 3 min / UK / 2009

A fun, simple story of a man’s adventure getting home all animated in life-size, stop-motion with real people and bizarre objects.

Adventure about Loss in 3D Animation
Marc Craste / 13 min / UK / 2009

Love traverses all obstacles in this award-winning animation about a circus performer and a lone admirer who hopes to free her.

Adventure about Identity in Stop-Motion
Kirsten Lepore / 10 min / USA / 2009

A cupcake escapes a city of sweets and is marooned on an island of vegetables where he learns to reform his destructive ways in this tasty stop-motion from the talented Kirsten Lepore.

Adventure about Life & Society in Live-Action
Scott Ingalls, Ford Austin / 5 min / USA / 2008

Rollicking period-spoof tells the untold tales of the Wright Brothers—airplane inventors and adventurers extraordinaire! First ep of a series.

Adventure about Redemption in Live-Action
Ray Tintori / 6 min / USA / 2008

A man serially obsessed with faking his own death, sires a son who destroys most of the world, but this son, along with his wife, (the greatest swordsperson in the world), rise up against the totalitarian regime that’s emerges from the wreckage. It sounds like a mess, but its good!

Adventure about Growth in Animation
Meghana Bisineer / 5 min / UK / 2008

Simple ink animation of a child’s imaginative journey across the surreal landscape of her grandmother.

Adventure about Conquest in Anime
Hayao Miyazaki / 7 min / Japan / 2007

The brilliant Miyazaki brings to life a beautiful story of two small heroes and their pursuit to free a young angelic girl.

Adventure about Growth in Anime
Cedric Herole / 3 min / Japan / 2007

A dream to fly turns dangerous as our young heroine is dragged into a new world only to be saved by a kindly witch. Sound familiar?

Adventure about Other Worlds in 3D Animation
Gaëlle Denis / 6 min / UK / 2007

A Japanese transplant finds herself in the cold heart of a gloomy and uninviting London. But there’s more that lies beyond the surface…

Adventure about Friendship in Anime
Jonathan Kim / 2 min / USA / 2007

A lo-fi animation by CalArts student Jonathan Kim that proves a film doesn’t need a big budget and production polish to entertain.