Watching this sardonic exposé of the many perils of a career in the motion arts, I assumed the director was a grizzled industry veteran. Alas no, “Motion Makes a Masochist” is Dev Joshi’s graduation film. [Watch]
Amsterdam directing duo BLND (aka Fran Marquez and Daniela Uribe) offer both esoteric and practical advice to fellow creatives on how to re-discover inspiration when all seems lost. [Watch]
British concert pianist, memoirist, and iconoclast James Rhodes takes us under the covers in his room at a psychiatric hospital to reveal a very personal musical memory in this animated film directed by Bungalow in Barcelona. [Watch]
If there’s such a thing as minimalist maximalism, this entrancing and intricate infinite zoom created by German director/animator Henning Max Lederer for OMD’s new single “Isotype” is probably it. [Watch]
Rotating sets are certainly not new (Royal Wedding, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poltergeist, etc.) but this deployment from director Show Yanagisawa for Sony’s Gravity Rush 2 game updates the technique with a secret weapon: the ginger kitten. [Watch]
Italian animation innovator and provocateur Donato Sansone (aka milkyeyes) suppresses his natural tendency toward the NSFW and grotesque to hand-craft a snappy don’t-text-and-drive message for Ford Italy. [Watch]
