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One at a Time is a short animated movie produced at the CSC, written and directed by Gabriele Barrocu, Alessia Cordini, Valeria Ghignone and Valentina Ventimiglia.

Compositing and Color Correction: Andrea Maguolo. Production Manager: Gabriele Barrocu. Original Music: Umberto Smerilli. Audio Editing: Francesco Tumminello and Nicola Sobieski.

“Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy.”

The amazing short film has been directed by Arev Manoukian, who also was editor, director of photography as well as producer with Stephanie Swedlove.

Actors: Michael Coughlan and Megan Lindley. Visual effects: Marc-André Gray. Music: Samuel Bisson.

Here is a “short film about a young boy in India chasing after his dream.” The lesson learned here: once you learned the lesson then go and put it into practice.

The short film has been directed and animated by Nicolas Athané, Méryl Franck, Alexis Liddell, Andres Salaff and Maïlys Vallade. Produced at Les Gobelins in Paris as an opening film for the Annecy Film Festival 2008.

A little girl gets bored on her own and asks for permission to her mother to meet Charly. The mother refuses but the little girl disobeys.

A short animated film by four students of the ESMA: Julien Duval, Loïc Quesada, Rémy Terreaux, Magda Wydrzynska.

Muto is an animated film by Blu produced at Mercurio Film. Assistant: Sibe. Music: Andrea Martignoni.

The title plays on the Italian word muto which means both mute and mutate (as in “I mutate”).

Do you know when you feel tired on monday morning, your arms dangling, the head titled to one side, you walk by little steps without a clear idea of where you’re going. Like a zombie. Then imagine how it feels for a zombie!

A nice animation created with an overhead projector by David King. The music is a version of Varshaver Freylekhs performed by The Klatsh.

The man was bored, so he made the machine. The man made the machine to be bigger, stronger and faster. When he was finished, he sent the machine out into the world.

The Machine is a short animated film has been written and directed by Rob Shaw (of Bent). Narration by Andrea Schuch. Animation: Rob Shaw and Sarah Hulin.

Suzette is not just a birthday present for Alain (Sam Soliday). She’s the love of his life. So you might realize how saddened he was when Suzette gets stolen by Bob (Mike Klaport), the world’s most renowned maglia nera who thinks that it’s not him, it’s the bike’s fault.

Manquer is a short film made for the 48 Hour Film Project in 2007 by Milk, the joint venture of filmmakers Matt Daniels (now at Thinklab) and Sean Pecknold (now at Grandchildren).

The short movie – the work of Florian Belmonte, Chloé Bonnet, Cyrille Chauvin, Gaëlle Diot and Eleonora Marinoni, students of LISAA – offers an improbable as well as picturesque explanation for the moai monoliths, the giant stone heads to be found on Easter Island.

I’m about to read about the rise and fall of the Rapa Nui society in Jared Diamond’s Collapse (great book, so far) but it’s nice to see the story from a different point of view.

In this short animated film, an unexpected visitor named Fred (voiced by Fred Tatasciore) comes to the window of Sandy (voiced by Evelyn Hwang), asking for her help to get home. Oh, by the way, Fred is a lion…

Her Lion’s Jump is a short movie by Régis Camargo, thesis work for his Master of Fine Arts at the UCLA Animation Workshop.

The musical score has been composed by: Marcel Camargo and Richie Kohan and performed by a eight piece ensemble.

Mister Heavy would like to reach for his friends on Happy Island, but he don’t know how to cross the sea. Mister Sun will come and shine some wisdom on the poor fellas.

Happy Land is a 2D animated kids show. Quite creepy, if you ask me, in the way I feel Teletubbies are creepy.

Featured here is the pilot episode created and animated in 2007 by Mike Scott at Bru & Boegie. Voices by Toko Moeketsi and story and music by David Scott.

Basel, 19 April 1943. Dr Albert Hofmann, a chemist, is cycling home after a day’s work in the laboratory. This episode has passed into legend, associated with the discovery of the effects on the human psyche of LSD.

A Bicycle Trip is the amazing short film by Lorenzo Veracini, Nandini Nambiar and Marco Avoletta, three students of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

Sound Design: Thomas Giorgi. Music: O’zittre nicht mein lieber sohn from W.A.Mozart’s The Magic Flute, re-elaborated by Roberto Boarini.

As I said, I oughta be lucky guy, since I never cared about my hair, short or long that it was. But if you do, then you might easily empathize with the guy in this short film.

Wild Wind is a Flash movie, directed by Leonardo Campasso, who is part of the Vurup collective which brought us Insert Coin.

The music comes from Mario Bros and Pac-Land. Additional music by Queshi and Eddsworldtom, from Newgorunds.

The short film has been directed by Ryan Rothermel at Decoy and Sean Pecknold at Grandchildren for the F5 Festival. Director of photography: Michael Ragen. Stop motion: Britta Johnson. Music: Robin Pecknold. Sound Design: David Kamp.

The name, Sans Gallagher the Younger, actually came from the comedian Gallagher and the painter Frans Francken the Younger.

Some abstract claymation from Kirsten Lepore. Makes me want to try myself at it too. One day, maybe.