Keywords: calgary stampede, independent animation, monday short, yycart
Here’s one from the QAS vaults, and you really couldn’t ask for a better time capsule of Calgary in the 1990s. Its grunge-funk soundtrack wouldn’t […]
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Keywords: animation, monday short, short film
Anna Mantzaris and Eirik Grønmo Bjørnsen’s 2012 film But Milk Is Important can be very cute, but that doesn’t mean it’s simplistic. It’s a film […]
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Keywords: land, masanobu hiraoka, monday short, psychedelic, sound design
The first thing you notice about Masanobu Hiraoka’s animation is its incredible fluidity. Nothing in his films is constant; everything is in a state of […]
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Keywords: animated short, animation, hug, monday short
Everything you need to know about Saki Iyori’s 2013 student film is right there in the title. Hug is simple and blissfull, a warm embrace that […]
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Keywords: animation, experimental animation, johan rijpma, monday short, short film
A quick short this week, but one that packs a lot into its two-minute run-time. In his notes for his most recent film, Extrapolate, Johan […]
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Keywords: alice dunseath, animation, monday short, short film, you could sunbathe in this storm
As idiosyncratic as animation can be, it’s rare to find a film that truly shows you something you’ve never seen before. Alice Dunseath’s You Could […]
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Keywords: animation, birds, monday short, zeitguised
Berlin design house Zeitguised is mostly known for their stunning fashion videos, using bold colours and impossible physics to create “0% organic” fabrics in films […]
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Keywords: animation lockdown, les autres, monday short
Like every May long weekend, it’s Quickdraw’s Animation Lockdown, a four-day challenge where local animators spend sleepless nights and caffeinated days trying out new ideas […]
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Keywords: cosmic, dr d foothead, form of space, monday short, pastel
A funny thing about watching hundreds of festival submissions every year is seeing films come in waves. Some years, you’ll see a few dozen films […]
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Keywords: animation, indie animation, monday short, nick cross, yellow cake
Although it isn’t nearly as dark as his follow-up, 2011’s The Pig Farmer (NSFW), Nick Cross’ Yellow Cake is still pretty bleak. In his words, […]
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Keywords: brandon blommaert, e:e:e:e:e, monday short
Brandon Blommaert’s 2015 film e:e:e:e:e: might just be the most successful exploration of synesthesia I’ve seen. The clattering sound and pulsing visuals of the first […]
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Keywords: animation, belly, indie animation, julia pott, monday short
About a minute into Julia Pott’s Belly, there’s a moment where Oscar, the main character, dismounts his friend/steed/monster by pushing through him, splitting him in two. […]
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Keywords: half wet, indie animation, monday short, sophie koko gate
Sophie Koko Gate’s Half Wet strikes a tone that is really difficult to describe—somewhere between a poem and a parody, and it’s pitched at a level […]
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Keywords: independent animation, monday short, nicolas menard, wednesday with goddard
Watching the Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival at ACAD last Friday reminded me how much I love Nicolas Ménard’s Wednesdays with Goddard. I’m […]
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Keywords: animation, monday short, risd, sub!
Ten seconds into Jesse Schmal Strauss’ Sub!, I was already 100% sold on it. The style is immediately striking, crude but still completely charming. Nine […]
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For International Women’s Day, here is just the tiniest sampling of some of our favourite films from rad female animators, in no particular order. There’s […]
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Keywords: helen hill, indie animation, monday short
(Helen Hill’s Vimeo account doesn’t allow embedding—click the image above to see the film) Despite only being 31 when she filmed Madame Winger Makes a Film, […]
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Keywords: joanna priestley, monday short
Joanna Priestley has been animating for more than three decades at this point, and over that span, she’s gone in far too many directions to summarize […]
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Keywords: independent animation, monday short, stefan gruber
Stefan Gruber is a pretty fascinating character. When we invited him to Quickdraw in 2014, it wasn’t just to show his films. He’s a performance […]
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Keywords: monday short
Most of Marcie LaCerte’s films are short bursts of inspired silliness. Sometimes they’re absurd, abstract, or downright morbid, but they always feel playful and loose in […]
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Keywords: animated short, choir tour, indie animation, monday short
Edmonds Jansons’ film Choir Tour gets by on one key insight: a group of children may seem like a set of solid objects, but it […]
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Keywords: animated short, animation, dr. breakfast, indie animation, monday short
A lot of the films we try to highlight at Quickdraw fall on the more experimental side of animation, but sometimes you just want some […]
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Keywords: animation, david oreilly, everything, indie animation, monday short
Much has been made (in some incredibly niche circles of animation and game fandom, at least) of the fact that the gameplay trailer for David […]
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Keywords: animation, jonathan djob nkondo, monday short, short film
(Note: Dark Day is a series of six micro-shorts that add up to about five minutes, total. Watch them all here to get the full […]
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Keywords: animation, monday short, short film
For the new year, a short about new beginnings—sort of. Watch enough independent animation and you’ll see a whole genre of films about the crushing […]
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