Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
With the help of London’s Moth Studio and Saatchi & Saatchi, UK charity Marie Curie (who specialize in caring for people with a terminal illness) are on a mission to raise our comfort level with conversations about death. [Watch]
Following the success of their first animated mini-doc “The Only Gay in Nigeria” (included in Stash 131), writer/directors Andre Tomonari and Gui Boucault at Royal in São Paulo return with a twisted tale of maraschinos and marijuana in Brooklyn. [Watch]
In 2015, Hungry Man director Wayne McClammy changed the scale and intensity of ad parody forever with this magnum opus, and now for Super Bowl LIV he and The Mill VFX crew conjure a new level of sci-fi cameo-fest for Walmart. [Watch]
In 2017, Toronto animator/filmmaker Noam Sussman decamped to the Estonian Academy of Arts to pursue his master’s degree in animation. The result was “Dream Cream”, a comedic look at dark themes including boredom, greed, and addiction. [Watch]
For the first time since their TV debut in 2013, Adult Swim’s star misfits Rick and Morty will dimension-hop to the Super Bowl in 2020 by way of this note-perfect work produced in-house by the network thru the Grey Group for Pringles. [Watch]
The creative liaison of CG artists/directors Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir, which started when they both worked at ManvsMachine in London, is now an official studio called XK with several new standout motion pieces. [Watch]
The timeless theme of a stranger adapting to a strange land receives an ironic yet compassionate update in this animated short by six graduate students from the class of 2018 at Supinfocom RUBIKA in France. [Watch]
London design and media practice InferStudio envision a not-too-distant-future where cities have become giant fulfillment centers built around catering to our smallest desires in an “Instant”. [Watch]
Good People director (and former agency creative director) Maged Nassar’s newest work features Egyptian rap artists Abyusif and Marwan Pablo in a kinetic high-contrast spot/music video full of gritty motion and post work. [Watch]
Just when you thought it was safe to smoke weed again, Little Minx director Romain Laurent and French motion designer Clément Morin unleash the hard and hallucinatory truth in this video for the first single off the TOKiMONSTA’s album Oasis Nocturno. [Watch]
Amsterdam prodco The Panics (formerly PostPanic) celebrate their 21st anniversary with a special edition of their bi-annual Panic Room motion meet-up complete with these haunting CG opening titles from House of Panic director Kim Taylor. [Watch]
Wednesday Studio in London translates a rollicking exchange between jazz greats Kamasi Washington and Herbie Hancock into a vibrant short film about the importance of creative collaboration and the power of music to transcend differences. [Watch]
Shanghai digital artist and director Axl Le constructs a riveting philosophical odyssey through a surreal world in this CG short film powered by the insights of British writer/lecturer Alan Watts. [Watch]
UK director/animator Dan Castro, whose standout student films “Herman Brown is Feeling Down” and “Big Finds A Trumpet” planted him firmly on the Stash radar, is back with a monologue-driven and deeply personal work. [Watch]
