Civilization- Marco Brambilla

I've been slightly lazy with this blog due to my exams. I have two more weeks of crazy time in front of me and after that I'be more involved in this blog, I promise. Till then, here is a video a friend showed me yesterday. I really liked the idea of video collage. I don't have time to explore more about it right now, but I'll do it at some point. Enjoy!

WENDY TILBY- Strings

This animated film paints a vivid portrait of two strangers intimately linked by the shared ceilings, floors and plumbing of their apartments. When an unexpected problem arises, these comfortable connections are compromised. Wendy Tilby uses a painstaking animation process involving painting on glass and stop-action filming. Strings is a film as beautiful as it is haunting. Without words.
Strings was nominated for an Academy Award. It was Wendy's second major film, her first Table of Contents has also been featured here and possesses a not dissimilar theme. Wendy graduated from the University of Victoria before attending the Emily Carr Institute of Art. She has taught at Concordia University in Montreal and more recently at Harvard University. Her When the Day Breaks (also featured here) with Amanda Forbis was also Oscar nominated in 1999.

KRAAK& SMAAK- Squeeze me

Cause it's very, very, very nice work!


Kraak & Smaak - Squeeze Me from Kraak & Smaak on Vimeo.

MORPH- Blancmange

I am not really if Morph should be included in History of Animation or not, but I find he's adorable, so I decided to share :)

FEET OF SONG- Erika Russell

GET OUT- Jean- Baptiste LE COCQ

Get Out from Jean-Baptiste LE COCQ on Vimeo.

THE TALE OF HOW- The Blackheart Gang

Nine months of part time work gave birth to The Blackheart Gang’s acclaimed short film called, The Tale of How. The Tale of How is the second part of a trilogy of works called the Dodo Trilogy. It is to later be flanked by The Tale of Then and The Tale of When. The Dodo Trilogy, in turn, fits into a much greater work called, The Household.In the The Tale of How we meet a giant octopus with a tree growing in his head, the terror of the Indian ocean , OTTO THE MONSTER! His lonley past time is to devour the innocent dodo’s who lived on his head. We then see the dodo’s unite and with the help of a little white mouse, we saw them escape the clutches of the terrible be-tentacled tyrant and sail off into the sunset on their mother the tree.

The Tale of How consists out of a series of 13 prints and a short animated film.