From Nerdo studio in Turin, Italy: “Achieving perfection requires discipline, strength, focus, and persistence. This is why every sport is a challenge, both physical and mental, with ourselves. [Watch]
Not-for-profit production company SALT and illustrator Elena Skoreyko Wagner add a sense of meandering whimsy to American poet Marie Howe’s “Singularity (after Stephen Hawking)” in this short for the virtual version of the 2020 Universe in Verse event. [Watch]
New London studio Optical Arts just leaped onto the Stash radar with the submission of “Utopia”, their intriguing architectural exploration of “an imaginary mausoleum in Chandigarh, Le Corbusier’s modernist city in Northern India.” [Watch]
Director/animator Anna Ginsburg in London: “I recorded a woman singing ‘Just the Two of Us’ on the bus a couple of months ago. She sang it non-stop for 30 mins and I entered a dreamy trance.” [Watch]
The second in a series of four films coming from Japanese flower artist Azuma Makoto, “Story of Flowers 2” finds illustrator Katie Scott and animator James Paulley continuing the detailed execution and calm pacing they introduced in the first film. [Watch]
Prepare to follow Shanghai director/motion artist Axl Le and London audio house Box of Toys into a dark and disorienting CG fever-dream set in a lurid near-future Hong Kong and focused on an enigmatic character named Vincent. [Watch]
