[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/114350322"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]I'm always trying to debunk how certain looks and effects are achieved, and this is a fascinating BTS watch to understand how Directors Ben Smith and Bryce Wymer at The Mill+ tackled this award winning title sequence while trying to stay true to the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/83733883"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Harvie Krumpet is a 22 minute claymation dramedy Directed by Adam Elliot, an Australian stop-motion animation Writer, Director, and Producer. The look and expressions of the characters and the chunky charm of the sets Elliot creates, along with the perfect VO - Geoffrey Rush...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/425216489"][vc_column_text]I love videos that leave you with feelings, impressions, and ideas, as opposed to always taking you down the linear path of a story. I have a lot of respect for the writers and directors (often the same person) of these pieces, taking such...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/310781983"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]This feels like a soundscape-y version of what Jackson Pollack might have made if his tools were maybe aftereffects and a wacomm instead of paint and canvas. I don't really know WHAT this is, but i really like it. I like the balance, the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/196755403"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Extremely simple premise, executed brilliantly. I watched this fortuitously as i happened to be grappling with a big decision, my mind split into its two hemispheres, the right answer slapping back and forth , turning and swirling and stuck in the tar. Vincenzo "Cento"...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/237401787"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]I don't think i could really describe this, and i find that many times when it comes to the films that really leave an impression on me (and others, clearly) that is a common theme. They're quite unique and hard to describe. I'll borrow...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/phsmG-mn8Q4"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The Burden (in Swedish: Min börda) is a 14 minute swedish independent short film, directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr. The plot admittedly, is a little out there… “A dark musical enacted in a modern market place, situated next to a large freeway. The...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/z0PGK7a2IFo"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]This 3:15 short film was created by Alex Bodovsky, a Russian born Director (photographer, poet & musician) who made this film – about the Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos, who bravely took over London - in Macromedia Director (typically a tool for business...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCOWE0EiCyo"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Its hard to think of claymation without thinking about Aardman, a Bristol-based company helmed by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, visionaries since the late 70s in the field of animation. If anyone reading this remembers Peter Gabriel's incredible music video "Sledgehammer," if you've ever...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rIBbhymIzw"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]There is so much good work coming from the National Film Board of Canada, i admire it so. This is one of my favorite shorts ever. I love everything about it, its two quirky Alberta-loving Directors, I love the look of it achieved by...