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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Keywords: ismael sanz-pena, monday short, persistence of vision
Last week’s short was an example of how animation can expand a single moment into something bigger. Ismael Sanz-Pena’s Persistence of Vision series does something […]
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Keywords: 00:08, monday short, yutaro kubo
In The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli lays out in a wonderfully poetic way how time isn’t real, at least not in the rigid, ordered […]
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Keywords: Alice Saey, monday short
A few years ago, Alice Saey’s video for the song Happy by Mark Lotterman took the film festival circuit by storm. Expect the video for […]
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Keywords: monday short
There’s a fine line between the terrestrial and the cosmic in Anastasia Melikhova’s short film, Eternity. The shimmering figures that open the film could be […]
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Keywords: Amy Kravitz, Ana Pérez López, Anna Budanova, Anna Ginsburg, Caitlyn McCarthy, Celine Devaux, Elenor Kopka, emily downe, Gina Kamentsky, h kristen campbell, jennifer zheng, Jenny Jokela, Jessica Ashman, Jonni Phillips, laura goncalves, Laura Jayne, Laura Spark, Lénaïg La Moigne, mai nguyen, Martina Scarpelli
Hard to believe it’s been two years since we last shared a thread of animators for International Women’s Day. Well, here are 20 films that […]
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A lot of films are inspired by stories, but fewer are inspired specifically by books. The films in this list are a few of our […]
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Keywords: Michelle Brand, monday short, multiverse
Michelle Brand’s Synchronicity starts simply enough, with a progression of rough, gestural drawings of people in public. Their poses are casual if a little impatient–people […]
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Keywords: acid rain, monday short, tomek popakul
At this point it’s definitely silly to be frustrated by the Academy Awards’ treatment of animation, but nonetheless: in yesterday’s Oscar broadcast, the presenter of […]
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Keywords: monday short, simon feat
The typical portrait of time is rigid and relentless: the gears of a stopwatch turning in mechanistic precision, or an hourglass and its slow, inevitable […]
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Keywords: monday short, Nate Milton
Nate Milton has an absolutely uncanny ability to distill complex emotions into singular images. As a viewer, that makes his films incredibly pleasant to watch. […]
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Keywords: animals
The best animated shorts have a unique way of balancing absurdity with emotional honesty. Chez Moi finds plenty of humour in introducing a sharp-dressed birdman into […]
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Keywords: monday short
I’m a little shocked that I haven’t featured any of Emily Downe’s films in this blog before. Films like Spinning Record and The Redness of […]
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