Keywords: adam, evelyn jane ross
For a story about the beginning of life, the Christian creation myth is strangely antiseptic. There’s no real embodiment to it, no sense of the […]
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Keywords: Jenny Jokela
CW: This film is an exploration of PTSD using intense visual metaphors including depictions of graphic violence to convey feelings of shame and disembodiment. There […]
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Keywords: nova high
Here it is, the second half of our recent additions to the ongoing Indie Animation Mixtape Vimeo channel. Although as usual, by the time we […]
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Apoptosis is a process of death built into life itself. A pre-programmed end point hard-wired into cells, complex multicellular life as we know it wouldn’t […]
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Keywords: a family that steals dogs, appease the peas please, arius ziaee, catherine manesse, forming game, infinite water, island, jennifer levonian, john c kelley, la boum du gardon, lichtspiel opus 1, lizard ladder, malcolm sutherland, max mortl, mercury's retrograde, onohana, railment, robert lobel, shunsaku hayashi, such a good place to die, sunny liang, ted wiggin, walter ruttmann, xylophone, zohar dvir
We may be behind on the summaries, but rest assured, we’ve been steadily adding to the Indie Animation Mixtape since our last update over a […]
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Keywords: Chromafilm, Leslie Bell, monday short
Leslie Bell’s artistic practice is impossible to pin down, incorporating installation art, painting, performance, and video manipulation, among others. We tend to have a soft […]
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The world of Amanda Strong’s Flood is a multi-layered one. There’s the realm of the Spider Woman and Thunderbird, a world of connection, creation and storytelling. […]
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Keywords: agua mole, alexandra ramires, drop by drop, monday shorts
The relationship between documentary films and the Truth (with a capital T) has never been especially clear. That’s doubly true when it comes to animated […]
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Keywords: nfb, the danish poet, torill kove
Judging by the name alone, you might guess that The Danish Poet is a fairy tale, or maybe a philosophical thought experiment, like the Chinese […]
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Lisa Jackson’s The Visit isn’t a radically unusual UFO story. Based on a real interview with Barry and Kimowan Ahenakew, it tells the story of […]
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Keywords: mirai mizue, onohama
Usually in writing about abstract animation, there’s at least some statement from the director, some contextual writing, something outside the visuals to use as a […]
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Keywords: pirmin bieri, whatevertree
Just in time for the long weekend, we’re back with another batch of animated shorts. These films depict impossible journeys, pleasant memories, unconscious imagery and […]
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Keywords: Andrea Dorfman, How to Be at Home, Tanya Davis
Tanya Davis wrote the poem “How to Be Alone” in 2010, back when solitude was seen as something of a fallen state by a society […]
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Keywords: monday short, the stroke, vincent de boer
Vincent de Boer’s six-minute short The Stroke is something of a love letter to the texture of a brush stroke. Opening on a simple horizontal […]
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Keywords: merlin fluge, rules of play
It’s been too long since we’ve updated you on our ongoing Indie Animation Mixtape! This month’s entries tackle epic struggles, eerie playground games, the passage […]
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Keywords: charlotte arene, la mer a boire, monday short
For all its endless variety of tools and techniques, at its heart, animation is about understanding movement. Listen to how much thought a professional animator […]
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Keywords: geraldine charpentier-basille, monday short
A little over halfway through Récit de soi, a personal documentary about the small realizations that led to the filmmaker’s understanding of their gender identity, […]
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Like a feudal Japanese take on The Wind in the Willows, Yon Hui Lee’s CalArts graduate film tells a tale of fantasy and mob justice […]
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Keywords: camille guillot, fanny hagdahl sorebo
It’s been pretty widely noted that 2020 broke our relationship with time. Hours drag on while months pass in a blur; a year’s worth of […]
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Keywords: cassie shao, hunted dreams, the lost sound, usc school of cinematic arts, vojtech domlatil
Our latest “side” to the ongoing mixtape is a bit of a journey. Starting with reflections on the attention economy and a bleak vision of […]
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The extended family Sunday dinner is one of many traditions that have been waylaid by the ongoing global pandemic. With Easter weekend coming up, folks […]
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Despite the snowfall warnings for this afternoon in Quickdraw’s back yard, it’s officially spring. To be fair, it might rain, or it might snow, which […]
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Keywords: 2, kim anderson, monday short
It’s been much too long since we spotlighted a Quickdraw short in our Monday Shorts series. The whole point of these writeups is to share […]
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Keywords: Amy Kravitz, monday shorts
In the Greek underworld, Lethe is the river of forgetfulness. Flowing around the cave of the god Hypnos, brother of Thanatos and personification of sleep, […]
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Keywords: maddie brewer, pilar garcia-fernandezsesma, yujie xu
This is the fourth year where we’ve shared a selection of animated shorts for International Women’s Day, and it still feels like we’re barely dipping […]
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