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MICHAEL ROBINSON – Girl by Firelight

“Color study made entirely with light, entirely in camera. All motion of color elements were created solely with hand movements.”
Another experimental short by Michael Robinson, featuring music by Bish.
“Uno studio sul colore fatto interamente di luce, tutto ottenuto in camera. Tutte le immagini sono create solo con movimenti delle mani.”
Un altro corto sperimentale di Michael [...]

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MICHAEL ROBINSON – Hand Painted Film Leader #2

A film leader is a length of film attached to the head or tail of a film to assist in threading a projector or telecine. (Source: Wikipedia)
The short by Michael Robinson, was “made in the tradition of direct animation (animation without the use of a camera). It was created during a Stan Brakhage Film Festival [...]

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CANDAS SISMAN – edicisuM

Falling down. Into your organicity, alone against the mechanicity of the world. Or vice versa. I don’t know. And is mechanicity a word?
Edicisum is a short film by Candas Sisman. His Vimeo channel abounds of great work and links to follow.
The song (?) is Musicide, by Isambard Khroustaliov, that is the solo alias of Sam [...]

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MICHAEL ROBINSON – Sea of Breath, Cloud of Ground

Four animated vignettes SLASH movements combine to relate an abstract narrative.
One year in the making, the short film is the work of Michael Robinson.
Unlike his previously featured works (Xologola and Candela Latitudes) some elements are clearly distinguishable (the drowning man, the boat) but you can freely rearrange them to create your favourite creepy story.
Music: Caleb [...]

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Boléro

Stylized dancers transform into abstract figures until they melt into the whirling background.
Classical music video for Pierre Boulez‘ recording of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro done with Computer graphics and motion capture in 1994.
Devised and directed by Mario Cavalli and produced at Pizazz Pictures for Deutsch Grammophon.
Design: Ashley Potter. Choreography: Jane Turner. Animation: Natalie Zita.
Ballerini stilizzati [...]

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VINCENT HOUZE – Unfolding Systems

A machine evolves to the sound of the music.
This was a school project by Vincent Houzé‘ (Master M2: Arts et Technologies de l’image), and is the follow up to a Maya audio plugin.
The author says: “Excepted for the camera, all animations are procedural, driven by the audio (which I made), mathematical expressions, or [...]

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Peripetics

The complete title is “Peripetics or The installation of an irreversible axis on a dynamic timeline.”The short “entails six imaginations of disoriented systems that take a catastrophic turn”.
Peripetics is a piece in six acts made by Zeitguised for the opening exhibition at the Zirkel Gallery. Sound design by Zeitguised with Michael Fakesch.
Il titolo completo [...]

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MICHAEL ROBINSON – Xologola

Higher quality video available in the underneath links! (highly recommended)

Yes, that’s what I said, very soon.
Xologola seems different every time you watch it: kind of like the images are trying to suggest you something but you’re not able to get it. Or maybe it’s the opposite: you try desperately to give things a familiar shape, [...]

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MICHAEL ROBINSON – Candela Latitudes

Candela Latitudes is the latest movie from Michael Robinson, in fact this should be the first time it appears online. We’ll feature more from him very soon.
Michael says: “The ribbons and line work in it were created by shooting lasers against different pieces of glass and recording the distortion with a DV camera.”
“The globules [...]

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Animal Collective – Water Curses

I want to be like waterand never need a doctorand carve the earth without my tools.
HD Video available in the underneath links.

A fan music video directed by Charles Huettner for the song by the Animal Collective. It’s about what you see but about what you feel.
“This video is 3 minutes and 22 seconds long, that [...]

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Arte en Construccion: Titles

The “opening title sequence for Arte en Construccion, an arts program examining the creative process of leading visual artists in Mexico.”
Directed by Adrian Lawrence and produced by Debbie Cooke and Stephanie Pennington at Crush. Executive producer: Jo-ann Cook.
Computer graphics: Aylwin Fernando, Jacques Dell, Chris Minos. Flame: Kaelem Cahill. Music: Adam Palmer.
Creative Directors: Natasha Rand, [...]

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PIERRE-ABRAHAM ROCHAT – Bricks

Freeze!

“A pursuit between two invisible people.” Kind of simple. The simply genius kind of simple.
A minimalist beauty made by Pierre Abraham Rochat while studing at the French school ECAL. Made with Blender and rendered with Yafray.
“Inseguimento fra due persone invisibili.” Semplice. Nel senso di semplicemente geniale.
Bellezza minimalista realizzata da Pierre Abraham Rochat durante gli studi [...]

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Stereolab – Neon Beanbag

An abstract pot-pourri which somewhat reminds me of the work of Larry Jordan.
Stereolab are an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, by Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier.
Neon Beanbag is the first single off their new album, entitled Chemical Chords and released for 4AD on August 2008.
The video was directed by Julian House.
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Time to Fly: Moondust

“A luminous, dreamlike commercial with an artistic interpretation of flying in United’s new” business class.
“Ishu Patel, Indian born and Canadian based animator, used his world renowned back-lit technique in which a thin layer of plastic modeling clay is applied to a glass plate that has a 1000 watt light positioned beneath it and an [...]

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Smilefaucet Undo: Hadi

Good timing, uh?

Here’s another short movie made for another Smilefaucet DVD (previously: Air)
“Hadi is a project that was inspired by a BBC news podcast detailing the hardships of an Iraqi cab driver.”
The short has been designed, animated, composited and directed by Keith Ehrlich at Big Star for the Undo DVD.
Altro cortometraggio realizzato per un DVD [...]

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