Today's film is called The Cat Piano. Its' made by The People's Republic of Animation, directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibbson, produced by Jessica Brentnal and narrated by Nick Cave. Be warned, this one is a tad dark, disturbing and morbid, but the animation is gorgeous and the narration is beautifully done.
As a historical side note, there are a few literary references to a bizarre instrument called the Cat organ or Cat piano that used tortured cats to make music. Fortunately, we have no official records of the nasty thing actually being built.
Are you in need of some visual sugar this morning? If so, you're in luck. Today's film is pure, comma inducing cuteness. It's an AniBOOM film called Birds of a Feather by Kelli Davis. AniBoom, as it turns out, is an online animation studio, rather than a physical building, that is made up of animators from all over the globe. (Ah, the things you can learn from Wikipedia.)
Happy Friday and welcome to Spring! (Although it's kind of felt like spring all winter.) Today's film is Evergreen directed by Yoann Lemione seems appropriate in light of the changing season. It has a fairly straight forward environmentalist message, but actually I have a fondness for that sort of thing. I wouldn't describe myself as an extremest, but looking after the natural world is something that's always been important to me.
It' Friday, you know the drill. Actually, I'm slightly impressed with myself for being this consistent. Yeah, me! Anyway, onward to the film.
Le lac gele is another short film from Goeblins, the studio that made last weeks film. This one isn't based on anything I know of, but it's still really pretty in a slightly surreal, thoughtful kind of way. I like that much of the background behind the story is unknown; the viewer can fill in the details for themselves.
Happy Friday once again! Jon and I will be leaving for Virginia soon. We're celebrating my Grandpa's 90th Birthday and my Grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary!! It shall be fun times for sure!!!
Before I continue packing and pretravel prep, I wanted to post Friday's film, Fenrir. Created by the Gobelins School of Image, this film references the mythological Norse wolf Fenrir, who was destined to escape his bondage and destroy the chef god Odin during the catastrophic, world ending event Ragnarok. During this same event, Fenrir's son Skoll (or in some versions, Fenrir himself) will swallow the sun. (You didn't know you were getting a mini lesson in Norse mythology today, did you? ^_^)
Happy Friday everyone! So the last two films I posted were the mellow, artsy type. This one has more action/adventure to it, although the animation style is still super fun. It's called Codehunters by Ben Hibon who, according to Wikipedia, has worked an a few video games as well as help direct the short film The Tale of the Three Brothers from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1.
There, how that for an epic start to your weekend!
Happy belated Friday! Yes, I know I didn't post a video yesterday. I apologize and to atone for my laziness, I offer you this short film. It's titled The Third and the Seventh by Alex Roman and you will probably either think its the most beautiful thing you've ever seen, or you'll be bored out of you mind. There, you've been properly warned.
As you might guess, I happen to think this film is gorgeous. It's comprised entirely of computer generated scenery. No action, not dialogue, just scenery. That's why it could be considered boring. However, the scenery is so, so, so lovely and so incredibly therapeutic when you're brain dead and just want to stare at pretty stuff. The other impressive thing about this film is that everything on it was entirely created on a computer. That, in and of itself, makes it worthy to be watched.
It's Friday once again and I have a new short film to share with you. This one is called Hammock: Breathturn and I must confess, I don't really know much about who made it.
Part of what I love about this film are the paper cranes. Paper cranes have had special significance for me ever since my senior year of college. In preparation for my senior show, I wanted to doing a performance art piece that would encompass the whole student body. So, I ended up sending each student a paper crane through the campus mail. This ment folding 3,000+ paper cranes, which was a huge undertaking, but I did mange to achieve it, with plenty of help from family and friends. The project was, I believe, successful, although I'm not sure how many people "got" it or if it had any lasting impact. However, that is kind of the nature of performance art.
You'd think that after folding a bajillion paper cranes by hand that I would be sick of them, but surprisingly enough, I'm not. In fact, I hung some from my kitchen ceiling to add a bit of color. Also, I very much want to recreate the scene were the boy hangs all the cranes in the ally way. So beautiful.
Happy Friday everyone!!! Now that I've figured out how to post videos on my blog (it took me waaaaay too long, I know), I've been thinking it would be fun to share some of my favorite short internet films! Sound fun? Good! Please note, I didn't make any of these movies; I just found them and wanted to share.
To kick off this (hopefully) weekly event; I have one of my all time short film series: There She Is!! It originally debuted on SamBakZu, a South Korean website. This one has everything; love, racism, a whimsical art style, humor, drama, cats with scarves; the works. I will warn you, the story gets a bit sad during part 4 and I always end up crying. Don't worry though, the ending is happy. Enjoy!
