Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
Istanbul creative new media agency Ouchhh keeps hammering at the edges of art, design, and technology with their newest commissioned work, a striking six-projector installation in Paris called AVA V2 inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller. [Watch]
Nexus director Jack Cunningham mixes classic stop motion and 3D animation with 3D printing to create “a unique insight into how the craft of making has evolved whilst still retaining traditional values and skills” for London men’s clothing label Tripl Stitched. [Watch]
Ever since Fritz Lang introduced Maria in his 1927 expressionist sci-fi classic “Metropolis,” audiences have been fascinated by robots both benevolent and nasty – see if you can name all the pop-culture bots featured in this snappy timeline tribute from Brainbot Studios in Madrid. [Watch]
The Aardman Nathan Love crew blow right past their regular 3D character animation parking space to join director Kris Merc in the pop-culture passing lane with this seizure-inducing torrent of multimedia disguised as the music video for Kool Keith X MF Doom ”Super Hero.” [Watch]
Julian Ticona Cuba, one half of the German creative team known as Noise (with Daniel Bartels) weaves sombre and mysterious visuals with the hypnotic poetry of UK wordsmith Johnny BANG Reilly in this director’s cut of “Nightfall” for Universal Music. [Watch]
Check this frenetic animated blast of dark humor called “Mr. Anxiety Goes on a Date,” an over-caffeinated interior monologue completed in one day by 4inaroom, aka Alyona Ciobanu, Anna Florea, The Sandul, and Serban Ilicevici. [Watch]
Paris director/animator Hugo Ramirez unleashes a visceral roto-nightmare he calls “black ink animation insanity” for Yann Kornowicz’s track “The Chase in the Ghost Train” thru Paris prodco Eddy. [Watch]
US designer/director Matt Smithson warms up the revolutionary (and somewhat scary) breakthroughs in mind reading technology with eccentric, light-hearted visuals for the Future of Storytelling speaker Marvin Chun, the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology at Yale. [Watch]
Zombie Studio in São Paulo, Brazil make a brazen grab for your heartstrings in this promo for the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (NYC, October 17-24) with a mix of utopian and tragic imagery powered by the drama of the Les Misérables track “I Dreamed a Dream.” [Watch]
Join Pixar animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj for a look into how they challenged current expectations of animation with their CG short film “Borrowed Time,” an emotional sledgehammer with music by Gustavo Santaolalla (“Brokeback Mountain,” “Babel”) and awarded Best in Show at SIGGRAPH 2016. [Watch]
Check the STYLE FRAMES speakers, check their presentations and panels, then use code SFSTASH to save 10% on your tickets. [Watch]
The French word poilus (hairy one) is a term of endearment for a French WWI infantryman and provides the title for this emotional, atmospheric and ambitious graduation film created by seven students at ISART DIGITAL, the Paris-based video game and 3D animation school. [Watch]
Animade animator Stew Harvey – the talent behind this warm and cozy Valentine Day film – returns with a quick blast of existential fun. [Watch]
Young SoCal animator/director Victoria Vincent follows up “Find true Love,” her one-minute animated ode to the pitfalls of online dating with “Fluffy’s Third Eye,” an equally off-balance allegory on the perqs and perils of getting what you wish for. [Watch]
