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BLU – Muto

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”).

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Ethav – Sleep

Sleep is a single by London based singer and songwriter Ethav.

The music video is the work of Domestic Infelicity, that is Sarolta Szabo and Tibor Banoczki.

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Tool – Sober

You might well go crazy looking for something you can’t get, but the madness always comes from inside.

Sober is a song by American progressive metal band Tool. The song, written by Maynard James Keenan, was released as the second single from their debut album, Undertow.

The stop animated music video was directed by Fred Stuhr. Special effects: Adam Jones.

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The Summerlad – City of Noise

“Referencing Magritte, Alice in Wonderland and surrealism in general,” the video follows “a man as he competes against different realities of himself for a magic treasure chest.”

City of Noise, by Canadian band The Summerlad, is originally a 40 minute, mostly instrumental, piece, composed in 2005 and released with this shorter single version in 2007.

The video, starring Trevor Campbell, has been directed and edited by Mitch Barany.

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Of Montreal – An Eluardian Instance

An Eluardian Instance is a single from Skeletal Lamping, the ninth studio album by Of Montreal, released for Polyvinyl on October 2008.

The music video has been directed and animated by Jesse Ewles.

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KRISTOF LUYCKX – The Gulls

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.

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Fuel TV Signature Series #21: Clayton Brothers

HD Video available in the underneath links.

“The Pasadena-based Rob and Christian Clayton, otherwise known as the Clayton Brothers, are known for producing dynamic, extemporaneous, yet purposeful paintings. The Clayton Brother’s work is inspired by the ethereal sublime, and searching for that moment of calmness.”
The Clayton Brothers’ Signature Series ID was produced for Fuel TV by [...]

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TAKASHI TANIGUCHI – Mr. Ando of the Woods

Humans are the cancer of the Earth.

“Mr. Bear, Mr. Bee and the old Mr. Turtle suspect Mr. Ando the penguin of being a human in disguise. Until the day Ando becomes their savior…”
A grotesque tale of the forest, directed by Takashi Taniguchi, a student of the Kyushu University. In fact there ain’t much animation going [...]

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ANTONIO VICENTINI – El Robot

HD Video available in the underneath links.

Well, the plot of the film… “Plot? It doesn’t have a plot. It’s just a robot meeting many planets with different art styles.”
Graduation work by Antonio Vicentini to conclude his degree in Design “once and for all”.
Beh, la trama del film… “Trama? Non c’è alcuna trama! Solo un robot [...]

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RAY TINTORI – Jettison your Loved Ones

It’s a scientific fact that 97% of all humansfeel trapped and paralyzed by their lives.

Sam (Max Goldblatt), a man addicted to faking his own death, strives for glory while his abandoned son Paul (Jeff Delauter), a boxer who thinks he’s from the future, falls in love with his half-sister Elizabeth (Elizabeth Behl), the world’s greatest [...]

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Mannen som til Stadighet Slar Mei i Hodet med en Paraply

Well, the last post (and this one too) obviously inspired me to search in my “to-post” queue for clips that share resemblances with other works.
Let’s start with this animated short movie by Cathinka Tandberg, a student of Norwegian school Volda Animation, featuring music by Helene Ingeberg and Janne Korneliussen.
The film’s based upon the short [...]

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NINE INCH NAILS – Closer

I wanna fuck you like an animal…

Oh, here’s the music video for one of the cheesiest romantic ballads ever written. Eheheh… Obviously the video is totally not suitable for work.
The song is featured in NIN’s 1994 concept album, The Downward Spiral, and in the single Closer to God from the same year.
The director is Mark [...]

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