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| The goal is to promote experimental and underground culture in its audiovisuals languages: animation, art, comics, film, video |
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| Ryan (Oscar 2004) |
| 2008-07-02 16:03:01 |
Ryan is a story about Ryan Larkin, an innovative, talented and gifted Canadian artist, who, thirty years ago, at the National Film Board of Canada, produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. Some year before dying, Ryan lived on welfare and panhandles for spare change in downtown MontrealWhen people think of documentary filmmaking, generally, they assume that it’s an objective medium. But Chris Landreth integrates photography and live-action footage with animation (it go...
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| Stubble Trouble (2000) |
| 2008-06-30 14:55:01 |
Stubble Trouble was directed by Joseph E. Merideth, a former animator for Calabash and a teacher of animation for Columbia College Chicago.Stylistically, it comes across as a crude melange of the "B.C." comic strip and "The Flinstones". A caveman, finding himself rejected by the fairer sex because of his heavy beard, resorts to increasingly desperate measures to become clean shaven, but the beard always sprouts right back. Finally, he meets the perfect woman, who can accept him as he is.
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| The Birthday Boy (2004) |
| 2008-06-30 06:55:21 |
Both the story, and the animation style are refreshingly original and beautifully told.Korean War, 1951 Little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life. He wanders through streets of his Korean village and plays on his own. With an air of poignancy, we watch as he plays among the ruins of...
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| Grace |
| 2008-06-28 07:43:27 |
Massimo Dall'Oglio self issued the magazineARTrosi and the serie Donnell&Grace. Actually he published his comics with Humanoides Associates.
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| 2008-06-26 14:28:13 |
Inspired by the work of stop motion animation masters Jan Svankmeyer, The Brothers Quay and the Lauenstein Brothers, Shane Acker sought to immerse the audience in gritty textural world inhabited by creatures composed of fabric scraps and bits of broken machinery.The fantasy artwork of Zdzislaw Beksinski and photographs of European cities destroyed in World War II inspired the scenic design. The non-verbal narrative is loosely based on the old English Poem Beowulf, and relies heavily on pantomime...
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| Sisyphus (1974) |
| 2008-06-23 15:14:26 |
Sisyphus is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sysiphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken shot, consisting of a dynamic line drawing of Sysiphus, the stone, and the mountainside.This short is about political oppression. The futile efforts of trying to create personal works of art are reflected in Sisyphus's unending struggle, with a cold, oppressive force trying to prevent the hero from doing what he has to do.With ...
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| In The Zone |
| 2008-06-22 15:46:00 |
Rip's illustrations have appeared in Galleries and on CD's, Band Poster's, Newspapers and Magazines. Robert's style is whimsical, surreal, and his images tend to capture a specific moment or scene while keeping an underlying edge.
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| The Selfish Giant (1973) |
| 2008-06-21 14:36:00 |
The story's namesake giant erects a wall to keep children out of his garden, reaping the consequences of a continuous winter.The story is based on Oscar Wilde's novel.Peter Sander makes a well piece of animation.
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| Maestro (2005) |
| 2008-06-20 02:12:41 |
Five minutes before his big performance, the Maestro and his persistent mechanical assistant are in preparation mode. As the clock ticks, life at the top is not all it seems. The multi award-winning Maestro blends an operatic aria with CG animation.Géza M. Tóth put a great effort in the sound design: you'll notice how nothing has been left to chance.The "camera" roams 360 degrees around the little room so we see what's going on from all angles.
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| Deep Sea Tentacle |
| 2008-06-17 14:49:03 |
Deep Sea Tentacle is reminiscent of Norman McLaren’s early shorts.One major theme in Kojirō Shishido’s work is reflections. He shows us beautiful reflections not only in surfaces like water, mirrors, but also in moving tentacles. Shishido renders his realistic backdrops images slightly blurry, endowing them with the hazy quality of memories or dreams.Shishido clearly enjoys the possibilities of light and shade in his films. Not only does he experiment with intensity of light, but he also pl...
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| The Critic (Oscar 1963) |
| 2008-06-15 11:20:01 |
Mel Brooks is an old man watching abstract animations. Simple, abstract, geometric shapes move and morph on the screen to what sounds like harpsichord music.He doesn't understand them, so he heckles with strange commentary, to the annoyance of those around him.In the background we hear a man giving his ideas about what he sees, completely without a clue. The voice of an audience member, who claims to be 71, complains through out most the film despite being told repeatedly by other audience membe...
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| Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith |
| 2008-06-13 15:14:40 |
Matt Hirschfeld. Many of his pieces have been created on commission for writers, actors and even major motion picture studios. In 2006, he created a lithograph for the movie Crash that was distributed by Lionsgate Films to the actors and filmmakers of the movie after winning the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture.
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| The Dot and the Line (Oscar 1965) |
| 2008-06-12 16:01:00 |
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics is a book written and illustrated by Norton Juster, first published by Random House in 1963, which Chuck Jones and the MGM Animation/Visual Arts studio adapted into a 10-minute animated short film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, narrated by Robert Morley.Jones had fun with the form.A straight line is in love with a dot; however, the dot finds the line too plain, unimaginative, and rigid. She would rather spend her time with an undisciplined squiggle ...
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| Field In Rain |
| 2008-06-12 01:59:13 |
Christopher Harris is a photo-based artist whose work explores the American West. His landscapes and seascapes are meditations on transcendence, a quality Americans have associated with the West for two hundred years. The small “scratch” photos are snapshots from a daily journal. Currently he is beginning to photograph the remaining native tallgrass prairie that extends from Minnesota to Oklahoma.
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| En Marchant (1969) |
| 2008-06-10 15:03:51 |
Ryan Larkin employs a variety of techniques (line drawing, color wash, etc.) to catch and reproduce the motion of people afoot. The springing gait of youth, the mincing step of the high-heeled female, the doddering amble of the elderly: every event is registered with humor and individuality, to the accompaniment of special sound.A cinematic portrait of people walking in their individual ways! Excerpts from this film also appear in the Oscar-winning short about Larkin, Ryan.Walking made Larkin an...
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| Untitled |
| 2008-06-09 13:47:07 |
Steven Daily’s work is extremely stylized, and his paintings are emotionally evocative. He has shown in numerous galleries nationwide. He has created a sizeable body of work. Daily is extremely busy these days, working on several exciting new projects, so you can expect to see much more from him in the immediate future.
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| Pulcinella (1973) |
| 2008-06-08 13:47:51 |
Pulcinella is the principal character who dreams himself into a wild nightmare of a dream that leads us through an abstract world.Emanuele Luzzati designed the forms and art style, and Giulio Gianini animated and took care of the technical aspect.Pulcinella is an artistically imaginative and very inspiring short with a lot of free improvisation and a harmonious interaction between music and motion characterise. It was inspired by the Italian opera and the traditional folk theatre Commedia dell'A...
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| Bokka |
| 2008-06-06 16:56:01 |
Akab. He's editor and charter member of Shok Studio. He has collaborated with Marvel, Dark Horse and DC comics. His painting has been exhibited at L.57, Happening underground, Sovversivi, Milano's International Fumetto Triennale, Freeshout, No human no cry. His first film M A T T A T O I O has been selected for the Venice's Biennal. His movie Il corpo di Cristo has been selected at Bellaria Film Festival.
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| Twin Hearts |
| 2008-06-03 03:00:55 |
Adriana De Barros. Artist, writer and poet. You can watch his Flash Visual Poems on SCENE360.Her personal and commercial work has been recognized with numerous editorial and design awards and honors. She's also active in the design industry.
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| Umi Ga kikoeru (1993) |
| 2008-05-31 20:48:01 |
Unlike Ghibli Studio's more popular works, Ocean Waves is not a fantastic fairytale adventure or a metaphorical epic on man's relationship with nature.The story is set in the city of Kōchi, on the Japanese island of Shikoku. It concerns a love triangle that develops between two good friends and Rikako, a new girl who transferred from Tokyo.Taku travels to his hometown for his high school reunion. During the trip, he recalls the memories of the days in high school. Friendship, subtle love, a tri...
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| Au bout du monde (1999) |
| 2008-05-31 04:38:02 |
The adventures of a precariously-balanced house. Built on the top of a hill, it swings to and fro to the great displeasure of its inhabitants. Through various gesticulations and unintelligible verbal exchanges, these small characters are imbued with a lot of personality.The gags build seamlessly on each other as the house teeters on the tip of the mountain.The dialogue-free comedy transpires on both sides of a house perched on a peak so pointy the tiny structure see-saws whenever humans or anima...
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| Blue Monochrom |
| 2008-05-30 08:38:41 |
By Michel De Broin. Through a collection of objects and actions, his works seek to escape the constraining nature of modern utopian aspirations whilst attempting to reenact them in playful, jesting objects that glorify the referent on the one hand while upstaging it on the other.Drawing on his doubt in the capacity and value of ideas, his sculptural projects seek to put them to the test by literally confronting them with the necessities of reality in assemblage that often troubles the ideas it p...
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| Musicotherapie |
| 2008-05-30 02:26:00 |
Amaël Isnard, Manuel Javelle and Clément Picon directed this strange short, in which madness at the mental institution as the animals drive the monkey doctor crazy making music. Musicotherapie is a very well done short.
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| Doggy Bag |
| 2008-05-29 04:57:00 |
Doggy Bag is a 3d short by Guillaume Cassuto, Thomas Moine and Sylvain Perlot, three students from France’s Supinfocom school.At the same moment, in a bombed-out neighborhood, two starving tenants decide to eat the dog of the old woman who lives on the top floor of the building...It's a macabre tale of the comically surreal lengths two men will go just to get a decent meal. The animation is snappy and thelighting excellent.
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| Cashback (2004) |
| 2008-05-28 03:36:50 |
Sean Ellis narrates a sedate and surreal story of broken love and reborn.The protagonist is a reflective man, who works in a supermaket and struggles against the tyranny of time.Ben Willis is an art student who works the night shift several times a week at the Whitechapel Sainsbury's. Heart broken and tortured by insomnia Ben explains his view and experience of female beauty.The movie is about love, art and supermarket co-workers and shows an interesting view of time and time stopping. The most...
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| Africa (1997) |
| 2008-05-26 16:31:00 |
The idea of this film is based on the interest in african painting and masks about faces and human body. This is the story of a young man who, doing is boring duty in an office, dreams about a journey into the mythical continent.Francisco Lança realized a black and white crayons over acrilic painted backgrounds.
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| Cannes 2008 |
| 2008-05-26 04:39:30 |
Palme d'OrENTRE LES MURS by Laurent CantetGrand PrixGOMORRA by Matteo GarronePrize of the 61st Festival by Cannes ex-aequoCatherine Deneuve for UN CONTE by NOËL by Arnaud DESPLECHINClint Eastwood pour / for L’ÉCHANGE (The Exchange)Award for the Best DirectorÜÇ MAYMUN (Three Monkeys / Les Trois Singes) by Nuri Bilge CeylanJury PrizeIL DIVO by Paolo SorrentinoPrix d'interprétation masculineBenicio Del Toro for CHE by Steven SODERBERGHBest Performance for an ActressSandra Corveloni fo...
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| Éramos pocos (2005) |
| 2008-05-25 16:14:01 |
After his wife leaves him, Joaquín brings his mother-in-law back home to look after him and his son.Borja Cobeaga makes a simple, but neat short. There's a strange humour in Eramos poco you'll surely enjoy!
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| Sztuka spadania (2004) |
| 2008-05-24 06:56:00 |
In an old forgotten military base far from civilization, a group of deranged military officers nurture their insanity.A volunteer soldier plummets to his death. A photograph is taken and sent by courier to a huge man, who adds it to his macabre collection.The message behind ‘Fallen Art’ changed during production. At the beginning Tomek Baginski wanted to make just a funny film about the army, but many things happened in the world while the crew was fine-tuning the storyboards.Fallen Art is a...
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| Copy Shop (2001) |
| 2008-05-23 05:30:31 |
Copy Shop is an ingenious, visually stunning experimental film about a guy who works in a copy shop. During his morning test of the machine, he accidentally copies his hand; while he's looking at that copy, the machine starts churning out scenes from earlier that morning. Spooked by this, he closes up early and goes home. Soon, it seems, he's part of a society in which everyone looks like him and wears check vest. Can he get things back to normal?Virgil Widrich shot the film on digital video th...
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| NYC Mech pinup |
| 2008-05-23 02:11:00 |
Jim Rugg has worked with VH1, Harcourt, SLG, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Adhouse Books, Meathaus, Alternative, SPX, Top Shelf, and Sparkplug. He is the co-creator of Street Angell, Afrodisiac and the The Plain Janes.
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| J'attendrai le suivant... (2002) |
| 2008-05-22 14:14:02 |
Philippe Orreindy directed I'll Wait for the Next One, a short which sets itself up as a cute little comedy skit, and it delivers on that premise but also surprises you with an incredibly moving finale.Lasting only four minutes, the film takes place almost entirely on a metro train.On a subway train, a man announces that he's looking for someone who might be interested in him; the usual dating methods have not worked, though there's nothing wrong with him. He explains that any interested woman c...
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| We the Robots 4 |
| 2008-05-22 01:29:00 |
We The Robots is a comic strip by animator and former syndicated cartoonist, Chris Harding. It is about robots.
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| Helium (2005) |
| 2008-05-21 15:12:13 |
Adam Janeczeic directed one of the best animated videos I've ever watched.Helium is so elegant for its choreography. This short reminde of some sequences of dancing fairies in Fantasia. The animation is perfect for its graceful timing of these Casper - ghosts.
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| Empire (2005) |
| 2008-05-20 04:22:18 |
As we see the Statue of Liberty from the air, the voice of President George W. Bush speaks about a great people facing terror. Then there follows a montage of images of offices, homes, and back yards of the U.S. in the late 1950s and early 1960s: the colors of avocado green and harvest gold dominate. People, all of them white, are well dressed and well scrubbed; houses and offices well kept.Archives images compiled by Edouard Salier demonstrate the blissful consumers of the standard American fam...
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| We the Robots 1 |
| 2008-05-20 04:20:48 |
We The Robots is a comic strip by animator and former syndicated cartoonist, Chris Harding. It is about robots.
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| We the Robots 2 |
| 2008-05-20 04:20:24 |
We The Robots is a comic strip by animator and former syndicated cartoonist, Chris Harding. It is about robots.
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| We the Robots 3 |
| 2008-05-20 04:19:57 |
We The Robots is a comic strip by animator and former syndicated cartoonist, Chris Harding. It is about robots.
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| Kleingeld (1999) |
| 2008-05-19 04:30:25 |
Herr Hoffman parks his late-model car in a lot across from his corner office on the top floor. Each day, he puts a coin in the cup of a beggar who stands in front of the building. One day, Hoffman looks out his window and notices the beggar washing his car. That evening, when he gives the beggar a coin, Hoffmann tells him not the wash it. But the next day, it happens again...Kleingeld was inspired by The Philanthropist, a play which was performed in Berlin by a student theater group. In the play...
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| Giocattoli futuristi (2005) |
| 2008-05-18 04:41:11 |
Futurists Toys is a grotesque tale that sparks a sense of loss and amazement in the viewer via a dreamlike vision. It’s inspired by Depero’s paintings and his “Balli Plastici,” the “futuristic theatre of marionettes”.Claudio Castelli wants to wake sleepy consciences from their mechanicist torpor.The story also touches issues raised by classic novels such as Dante's “Divine Commedy” and Manzoni's “The Betrothed” and wants to provoke thinking for young people ruled by routine.
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