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Alberi (Trees) is a poetic documentary about trees, made by 22 Italian pupils (9 years old) during Art and Music classes.

The short film has been directed and edited by their teacher, Raffaella Traniello, using only free software: Cinelerra CV running under the Edubuntu operative system.

Imagine to listen to the audio from a scene of a movie, without watching the images. Then, try and make a short animation to replace the actual video.

The short film by Kristof Luyckx plays this game with some lines of dialogue from Hitchcock’s The Birds.

“Is your inner peace an utopian state until you have finally escaped the grip of the society and its rules? Or is affirmation a faster way to your personal luck? And what are you supposed to do, if you have to answer this question at the age of 12?”

The Forest is a short animated movie by David Scharf.

Invisible Wars is a motion piece by James Bartley and Jake Graydon, their final project at VFS in the Digital Design program.

You expect me to believe that?!?

Some dude (Simon Carroll Jones) is late and misses the bus for his girlfriend’s house. Trying to arrive in time will bring him in a breathtaking adventure.
Sorry I’m Late is a stop animated short film directed by Tomas Mankovsky. Director of photography: Trevor Forrest.
Executive producer: James Studholme at Blink. Sound [...]

The plot is as simple as: “a man leaves his wife and kids and buries himself.” But the film just begins where the plot ends.
I’d Like To Be is a short animated film, a stop frame mess by David Firth of Fat Pie fame.
Music by Loom.
La storia è semplice: “un uomo lascia moglie e figli [...]

La fuente de la vida

“A troubled man journeys to the fountain of youth, only to discover that the price for drinking from its waters is far greater than he imagined.”
Hemlock is a short animated film made by Tyson Ibele for the CGSociety Steampunk Challenge.
The aim was “to adapt an ancient myth to steampunk stylings”. The [...]

Something is coming…

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If you’re not coming under water with me, the water will come to you to getcha. There is no escape, except maybe to “stop global warming before it stops us”…
They Will Come to Town is a beautiful short film SLASH public service announcement, directed by Thilo Ewers.
Produced by Franziska Specht at the Institute [...]

Cnidaria (pronounced with a silent c) is a phylum containing
over 9,000 species of animals found exclusively in aquatic,
mostly marine, environments.

You won’t have any skin eruption watching this clip, swear! Images: Julien Nantiec; sound design: Hecq.
UPDATE: Fixed audio issues!
Niente eruzioni cutanee guardando questo video, giuro! Immagini: Julien Nantiec; progetto del suono: Hecq.
UPDATE: risolto problema audio!

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They were strangers who had met in a chance encounter.They had known each other before life began.

Looking thru a microscope could really make your omnipotence mania grow larger. Tho’ it might also prove you’re not omniscient.
God of Small Things is beautiful short film, the work of Chris Abbas and Sumit Seru of the elo | [...]

They’re coming!

I guess the image above suffices as a preview and that preparing more images would be a waste of time…
Chainsaw Maid is the story of a woman that would go any distance to give satisfaction to her employers. She won’t be stopped by a bunch of brain eating zombies.
The short film is a claymation [...]

A film about solitude, as an universal feeling.
A long journey in solitude searching for hope.
That is life.
Directed by Robin Risser.

Without an element of cruelty at the root ofevery spectacle, the theatre is not possible.

Credits: ENG – ITA

Come and go mad!
Demence is a short movie ideated and directed by Alice Bramucci and inspired to the concept of Theatre of Cruelty by Antonin Artaud.
The animations are made using actual paint, spread on photocopies of photos [...]

Seven colours for the rainbow, seven scents for the flip books, seven choices for the sinner…
The olfaloscope is a device that joins sight, touch and smell: a new solution to showcase a perfume, illustrating in picture what the perfumer creates.
The fragrance is sprayed on a flipbook which creates the necessary ventilation required in order to [...]

Sausages!

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It’s time for dinner and our doggy pal is not willing for another round of those kibbles.
The Dog and the Butcher is a short film produced at Ringling College of Art and Design for Jonathan Holt’s senior thesis.
Ora di cene: il nostro amico a quattro zampe non si accontenterà di altri croccantini…
The Dog and [...]