Keywords: allison schulnik, monday shorts
The small-scale world of insects, fungus and flowers is a fertile ground for metaphor. Its flora and fauna feel familiar enough that it’s rare to […]
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Keywords: Martina Scarpelli, martine frossard, salvation
This week’s additions to the Indie Animation Mixtape (our ongoing Vimeo channel) are mostly quite succinct. Almost half are under two minutes, and the second-longest […]
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Keywords: hugo de faucompret, monday short
If Automne only consisted of Hugo de Faucompret’s hand-painted backdrops it would still be mesmerizing. The rolling hills and rocky landscapes are magnificent, and the […]
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Keywords: edwin rostron, eli, folkion xenos, heatwave
We’ve been adding pretty consistently to our ongoing Vimeo channel, the Indie Animation Mixtape, but if you aren’t following us on Vimeo, you might not […]
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Keywords: monday short, the chaperone 3d
Animation is great at conjuring worlds that never existed, but that’s not all it’s good for. It’s also a perfect medium for showing true stories […]
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Keywords: monday short, ohayo, satoshi kon
It’s been 10 years to the day since the passing of Satoshi Kon, and his films still stand as some of the most perfectly composed, […]
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Keywords: monday short
With last year’s Mountains & Rivers, Beijing-based designer Particle (aka Gao Yang) started an exploration of generative art, using various noise algorithms to generate pulsating […]
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Keywords: early animation, emile cohl, fantasmagorie
On August 17, 1908, French animator Émile Cohl released Fantasmagorie, widely considered by film historians to be the first animated film. Although animation has a […]
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Keywords: dirk koy, flying lotus, lydia lee, marcos sánchez, monday short, music video, run the jewels, winston hacking, yello
Instead of focusing on one film, this week’s Monday Short post is looking at a trio of recent music videos from a set of vastly […]
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Keywords: birds, felipe de poi, joseph bennett, monday short
Released as part of the FXX series Cake, Joe Bennett’s short Birds is maybe the sweetest memento mori you’ll ever stumble across. It’s a quiet […]
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Keywords: monday short, nagmeh farzaneh, scent of geranium
Nagmeh Farzaneh’s 2016 student film, Scent of Geranium, is about the shock of confronting a foreign culture, and seeing your preconceptions challenged at every turn. […]
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Keywords: monday short, road trip, xaver xylophon
Last week’s short put us in the mood for naturalistic animation, and Xaver Böhm’s Roadtrip (released under his pseudonym Xaver Xylophon) strikes the right emotional […]
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Taking the day off? Looking for some Canadian shorts to watch? We’ve got you covered with a collection of films new and old that we’ve […]
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Keywords: lénaig le moigne, monday short
L’après-midi de Clémence (Clémence’s Afternoon) is as muted in tone as it is in its colour scheme. It’s a mood piece, set on a lazy […]
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Keywords: calarts, huntress janos, monday short, upside downtown
If I describe Huntress Janos’ 2018 CalArts film Upside Downtown as a proof of concept, it’s only because it sets up its world so fully […]
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In a sense, all animated movement is choreographed. Although it’s more often described in terms of acting or puppeteering, the conscious arrangement of movement within […]
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Keywords: monday short, quest of the battling gods, tokyo university of the arts, yosuke tani
Since it started its festival run in 2018, I’ve had a few chances to see Yosuke TANI’s Quest of the Battling Gods, and the same […]
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Keywords: daria dedok
I don’t know if Daria Dedok’s A Boy I Never Knew was created during the COVID-19 pandemic or if it’s just well timed, but it […]
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Keywords: esther cheung, in passing, monday short
Set in a towering apartment complex in 1970s Hong Kong, Esther Cheung’s In Passing is an unusual sort of documentary. A typhoon looms in the […]
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Keywords: monday short, sam lane, spell of the west
The precise tone of Sam Lane’s Spell of the West is tricky to pin down. The opening moments aren’t sinister, exactly, but the low-rumbling synth […]
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Keywords: erin kim, monday short
The sound of cracking joints is bad enough when even when it’s harmless, a sort of reverse ASMR that sends pure discomfort own the spine—and […]
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Keywords: canigou, hideki inaba, monday short, tape
If there’s a single word to distill Hideki Inaba’s animation style, it would be “intricate.” His 2015 video for Dutch producer Beatsofreen (commissioned by BC […]
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Keywords: maya erdelyi, monday short, phosphena, tv on the radio
Maya Erdelyi’s Phosphena is a story of a mating ritual gone wrong, loosely inspired by the intricate constructions of bowerbirds. Described in those terms, it […]
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Keywords: monday short, Páraic McGloughlin, weval
Last week’s short, Persistence of Vision, was an example of a replacement animation with a narrow concept—taking a single, static image and using the patterns […]
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Keywords: christopher eales, kirsten lepore, migration, william bishop-stephens
It’s Friday, April 3. In Calgary, there’s a fresh layer of snow falling that might be pretty if it was still February, but weeks into […]
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