tagged w/ Stop-motion animation
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“To Die By Your Side” (Mourir Auprès de Toi) is a tragicomic stop-motion animated short film co-created by the celebrated filmmaker Spike Jonze and designer Olympia Le-Tan. After spending five years adapting Maurice Sendak’s “Where The Wild Things Are,” Jonze’s more recent short films include last year’s robot love story, “I’m Here,” and this year’s Arcade Fire collaboration, “Scenes From the Suburbs.” “To Die By Your Side” is his latest short film, which premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week.
A tale to pierce the heart, the star-crossed love story is set on the shelves of Paris’s storied Shakespeare and Co. bookstore. When night falls, an old Parisian bookseller closes the small shop, and a klutzy skeleton springs off the cover of “Macbeth” and falls for Mina, the flame-haired damsel from “Dracula.” Enlisting French filmmaker Simon Cahn to co-direct, the team wrote the script between Los Angeles and Paris over a six-month period of time, before working night and day animating the 3,000 pieces of felt that Le-Tan had cut by hand.
“To Die By Your Side” is a delightfully whimsical, humorous and poignant animated felt short film: Be sure to watch it to the end!
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the wonderful animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/spike-jonze-to-die-by-your-side/“To Die By Your Side” (Mourir Auprès de Toi) is a tragicomic... more
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“Flawed” is an impressive personal 12-min. stop-motion animated story told in gorgeous drawings done in black ink and watercolor by Canadian filmmaker Andrea Dorfman. The film has been acclaimed on the festival circuit for a couple of years, winning at the Palm Springs Film Festival, and playing at HotDocs and SilverDocs. It has been one of the jewels of the National Film Board‘s impressive animation catalog, but only now has become available on the web.
“Flawed” tells a story that is serious, heart-warming yet also heart-breaking, in which Dorfman examines the conflicted feelings that arise when she strikes up a romance with a plastic surgeon. Through an intensely confessional narrative, she discovers that the secret to getting the man to accept her is to learn how to accept herself. The drawings help to keep the story light and visually compelling, while presenting Dorfman’s philosophical take on self-esteem, growing-up, relationships, personal identity and even cosmetic surgery.
This piece includes colorful illustrations and the acclaimed animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/flawed-thats-what-makes-life-interesting/“Flawed” is an impressive personal 12-min. stop-motion animated story told... more
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“Zero” is a highly acclaimed Australian stop-motion animated short film, written and directed by Christopher Kezelos. “Zero” has screened at over 50 film festivals and won 11 awards, including Best Animation from LA Shorts Fest and the Rhode Island International Film Festival and has been nominated for an AFI Award.
The film follows life in a world of yarn puppets, where the main character is a zero. This is a world in which from birth your destiny is determined by a number boldly displayed on your chest, representing all that you are or can be. 9′s are the elites of this world, and the very lowest you can sink, the untouchables, are cursed as Zero.
The dark fairytale takes place in a world built upon a rigid foundation of social intolerance. In this land of numbered characters, the zeroes endure lives of constant heart-ache, never allowed to have romantic relationships, marry, have children or be parents. Faced with constant prejudice and persecution, one oppressed zero walks a lonely path of disappointment and abuse until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can become truly something.
This piece includes color photographs, as well as the much-awarded animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/zero-a-courageous-yarn-of-forbidden-love/“Zero” is a highly acclaimed Australian stop-motion animated short film,... more
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“Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change” is an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), which presents the first-ever retrospective examination of all aspects of artist Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering photography. Best known for his groundbreaking studies of animals and humans in motion, what a magnificent photographer Eadweard Muybridge was and what a brilliant eye he had is too often overlooked. In addition to his iconic studies of animals in motion, Muybridge (1830-1904) was also an innovative and successful landscape and survey photographer, documentary artist, inventor and war correspondent.
The works in this exhibition have been brought together from 38 different collections and include a number of Muybridge’s photographs of Yosemite Valley, images of Alaska and the Pacific coast, pictures from Panama and Guatemala and urban panoramas of San Francisco, most of which were published under the pseudonym “Helios.” The exhibition also includes examples from Muybridge’s experimental series of sequential stop-motion photographs, such as his masterpieces “The Horse in Motion” and “Animal Locomotion.”
This piece includes a number of vintage photographs from the exhibition, a photo-gallery, a music video and a stop-motion animation.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/helios-the-pioneering-photography-of-eadweard-muybridge/“Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change” is an exhibition at the... more
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“I Live in the Woods” is a gleefully bloody, high energy stop motion animated short film by Max Winston, which has picked up numerous awards and kudos as it burns through the animation festival circuit. The feast of colors and colorful characters is an absurdly warped little fairy tale about a woodsman’s frantic journey through the forest, driven by happiness, gory slaughter and an ultimate confrontation with much bigger prey. The purple-bearded woodsman maniacally runs and jumps throughout the woods, singing of his joys and freedom. His freedom just happens to consist of a lot of bloody butchering of hapless woodland critters; that is, until he sets his sights on…America’s God!
This piece includes a number of colorful pictures, as well as the wickedly funny animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/i-live-in-the-woods-a-warped-little-fairy-tale/“I Live in the Woods” is a gleefully bloody, high energy stop motion... more
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“Vicenta” is an awesome stop-motion animated short film directed by Sam Orti at the Spanish studio Conflictivos Productions. This plasticine/claymation movie turns out to be an epic little horror-film, with scenes of hot sex, bloody corpses and intense violence. The film tells the story of a woman in search of her husband’s lottery winnings, whose rich but miserly husband is having a steamy liaison with the scheming floozy who lives in the flat next door. If you’ve ever wondered what a hardcore claymation sex scene might look like, then you’ve absolutely got to check this one out!
This piece includes colorful pictures, as well as the beautifully animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/vicenta-a-spine-tingling-tale-of-lusty-betrayal-and-bloodthirsty-revenge/“Vicenta” is an awesome stop-motion animated short film directed by Sam... more
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“For Sock’s Sake” is a very funny five-minute animated short film by Carlo Vogele, in which some clothes are taken off a clothesline and subjected to a range of cruel and harsh tortures. First, a sock falls from the clothesline and makes a mad dash for the nearby nightclub, suffering the fate of all wasters, philanderers and dilettantes who abscond in search of the nightlife’s bright lights and sleaze. Whether it be to rescue the sock or to similarly indulge, the line disgorges the rest of its clothes and a journey to the darkness and evils of an underworld clubland ensues. The film features graphic scenes of torture and licentiousness: a sleazy raincoat exposes his lining to the rescue party; Trousers, the boss man of the group, is badly-treated by a steam iron; and the poor little sock ends up being hung in chains above a vat of boiling bleach. This definitely is not a movie for the squeamish launderer!
This piece includes colorful photographs, as well as the wickedly funny animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/for-socks-sake-a-sock-absconds-to-a-sleazy-nightclub/“For Sock’s Sake” is a very funny five-minute animated short film by... more
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“Coffee Time” is an amazing, tasty two-minute stop-motion animated short film by Ching-Wen Wu (aka Wan-Tzu). Does the taste of every cup of coffee change, each one containing its own soul that’s extracted from how you’re feeling when you make it? That’s how animator Wan-tzu feels and more, it seems. This animation shows the construction of a single cup of coffee, a veritable magic show that contains a number of different journeys bringing unending imagination and surprises along the way. With a sip of coffee, you not only taste your own story, but also change your perspective of the world!
This piece includes photographs, as well as the savory roasted animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/coffee-time-magical-cups-of-coffee/“Coffee Time” is an amazing, tasty two-minute stop-motion animated short... more
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“Joy of Destruction” is an absurdly funny, but at the same time very sad paper-collage stop-motion animated short film created by Xaver Xylophon, in collaboration with Laura Junger. The film highlights mankind’s propensity to destroy everything, ranging from from the humorous blowing up of balloons or bubble wrap, to the hard reality of terrorism, ecological disasters and bloody human massacres. It’s fairly true that no matter what humans happen to encounter, they will always try to kill it. No matter what it is.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/joy-of-destruction-the-human-drive-to-destroy/“Joy of Destruction” is an absurdly funny, but at the same time very sad... more
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“Kurzschluss” (Short Circuit) is a delightful, bittersweet 3D-animated short film by German animators Miriam Frank, Georg Utz, and Xaver Xylophon. The sad little animated short, which cleverly combines stop-motion and CGI, tells a very tragic robot love story.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution illustrations, as well as the darkly humorous animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/kurzschluss-a-very-tragic-robot-love-story/“Kurzschluss” (Short Circuit) is a delightful, bittersweet 3D-animated... more
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“Dot” is a new 90-second animated short film directed by Sumo Science (a.k.a. Will Studd and Ed Patterson) at Aardman Animations. Aardman (the creators of Wallace & Gromit) has done many amazing things in animation and earned dozens of awards, but none is likely to be quite as unusual as its new film “Dot” earning a spot in Guinness Book of Records for the smallest stop-motion animation character in a film. All the minuscule detail was shot using the new Nokia N8 smartphone, along with the CellScope technology.
The film features little Dot, a tiny 9mm girl who wakes up in a magical, magnified world and discovers that her surroundings are caving in all around her. She escapes the encroaching wave of destruction as her world unravels via a path made up of tiny, familiar objects, such as pins, pencil shavings, nuts and bolts, coins and a bumblebee, until she finally finds peace by knitting herself a blanket from the very stuff that pursues her.
This piece includes color photographs, as well as the amazing animated short film, “Dot.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/the-perils-of-dot-the-worlds-tiniest-stop-motion-animation-heroine/“Dot” is a new 90-second animated short film directed by Sumo Science... more
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“The Ugly Little Square” (Le Vilain Petit Carré) is an enchanting stop-motion animated short film, created by ToutCourt. In a totally square world, something just isn’t right. One kid is totally different from his peers, but in a moment of desperation someone comes along who understands him and everything changes for the better.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the delightful animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/the-ugly-little-square/“The Ugly Little Square” (Le Vilain Petit Carré) is an enchanting... more
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“Zombie Western” is an amazing, comical stop-motion puppet zombie Western short film directed by the Danish filmmaker Tor Fruergaard. The story line is fairly simple. In an old-timey little saloon in the middle of nowhere, a young boy is picked on by the cowboys, even by his own father, for being weak and useless. But when the first customer of the day ambles strangely into the saloon, the boy thinks that maybe this will be his chance to shine.
With the puppets in place at the saloon, what you end up getting when the Zombies attack is a load more gore and violence than you probably would see in a real live action film. There are swinging cleavers, belts loaded with dynamite and a steam-powered chainsaw that is both ridiculous and inspired. As the film hurtles toward its gruesome climax, it becomes a kind of insane Howdy Doody mixing it up with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Freddy Krueger. This turns out to be one of the funniest short horror films you’ll ever see.
This piece includes a number of color photographs, as well as the wickedly hysterical animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/the-bloody-zombie-western-a-zany-high-powered-puppet-zombie-western/“Zombie Western” is an amazing, comical stop-motion puppet zombie Western... more
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“Sweet Dreams” is a remarkably unexpected and absolutely hysterical stop-motion animated short film by Kirsten Lepore. The film tells the story of a stalwart cupcake yearning to find something beyond his world of sugar cube skyscrapers and frosting-covered friends.
The runaway cupcake’s adventures turn into an intense bout of hot and steamy food porn, as he travels to distant shores. The sweet stuff’s sugar-cube boat is battered by the stormy seas, and that’s just the start of this astounding (flour-sifting?) journey. At one life-changing point during his stay in a foreign land, there’s some very naughty stop-motion romantic action between the cupcake and his newly beloved sexy gourd.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the wickedly funny animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/sweet-dreams-the-sexy-adventures-of-a-renegade-cupcake/“Sweet Dreams” is a remarkably unexpected and absolutely hysterical... more
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“Something Left, Something Taken” is a very humorous animated dark comedy created by the husband/wife team Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata. The animated short film is about a case of rampant paranoia in San Francisco’s Bay Area, as it follows the misadventures of a vacationing couple’s encounter with a man they firmly believe to be the infamous Zodiac Killer.
Max and Ru worked on the film for nearly two-and-a-half years, using stop-motion, pixilation, drawn animation on paper, After Effects, Flash and live-action puppets. The film mixes blends all of these elements in a seamless manner to create a whimsical hand-crafted world featuring lots of felt, fabric, rope and cardboard.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the very funny animated short.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/the-zodiac-killer-something-left-something-taken-2/“Something Left, Something Taken” is a very humorous animated dark comedy... more
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“Gig” is a masterful stop-motion animation created by the inspiring filmmaker Tobias Stretch, produced for the first solo album by the now pleasantly low-key musician Brian Goss. Goss began his musical career in 1987, forming bands that produced music noted for innovative combinations of noise, metal and acid rock. “Gig” is a song featured on “The Firing Line”, Goss’s first solo album that he describes as a work about heartbreak, perseverance and conciliation.
Tobias Stretch’s stop-motion animation films and bizarre, dreamlike puppet-characters are visually striking and magical. The narrative in this particular animation is of an old man’s reminiscences about a young girl from his youth (Gig), of holding her hand, drinking in the bar and talking about cars. Near the end of the film, there is a visual moment of beauty, a fusion of sharp colored flowers, which seems to signify the potential warmth of our memories.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the animated music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/gig-in-search-of-lost-time/“Gig” is a masterful stop-motion animation created by the inspiring... more
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“Western Spaghetti” is a classic, a tasty two-minute short film, with animation by PES and Javan Ivey. The film won awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, the 2009 Annecy Animation Festival and was named #2 Viral Video of the Year by Time Magazine. Everyday objects become delicious ingredients as we learn how to cook spaghetti through stop-motion photography. It’s funny how truly mouth watering this film is, you can almost smell the fabric!
Includes color photographs and the acclaimed stop-motion animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/heres-another-helping-of-delicious-western-spaghetti/“Western Spaghetti” is a classic, a tasty two-minute short film, with... more
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“Bric à Brac” is an engaging 4-minute animated short film by the French filmmakers Emeline Degand and Maud Bourotte, who are two students at the EESA (now École Georges Méliès). The cardboard, stop-motion animation tells the bittersweet story of two little robot-like thingees, who are made out of spare parts (as is everything around them). The rhythms and poppy facial expression changes are awesome, and the two scrap-metal automatons really seem to enjoy experimenting with the musical capabilities of their bodies. But very sadly, one ends up turning into an ecstatic Whirling Dervish, tragically getting much too carried away!
This piece includes a number of colorful, high-resolution illustrations from the film, as well as the animated tragicomedy short, “Bric à Brac.”
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http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/bric-a-brac-a-tragicomedy-of-two-raggedy-scrap-iron-automatons/“Bric à Brac” is an engaging 4-minute animated short film by the... more
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