Found on Youtube, this found footage short was realised by Jose Luzano while he was a student at U.T.
Made with a dozen 16mm films he bought and edited to accompany the narration of a suicide letter. The voice deals with memories fabrication, time impressions..
Music by Aphex Twin
Music matters is a series of animated shorts about musicians. While it’s at first an operation to promote legal ways of distributing music on the internet it also allows animators to design what’s basically a love letter to their favorite artists.
This episode, directed by Sarah Cox & Emma Lazenby, both members of the animation collective Arthur Cox), focuses on Nick Cave. (set to Red Right Hand from his album Let Love In )
There are already many more great videos on the website (about Kate Bush, The Jam, Sigur Ros…) and more to come.
Another one of Tezuka‘s lesser known gems, this little ode to daydreaming takes a surprising turn in the middle…
Made with found footage and a particularly striking type of editing, part cut-up and part free association, this was the first short film of Canadian experimental filmmaker Arthur Lipsett.
It started as a soundtrack he assembled from various sources and the images only came when some of his friends suggested he added picture to the sound. This kind of reverse engineering gives the short most of its edge.
Kubrick, who described the short as “one of the most imaginative and brilliant uses of the movie screen and soundtrack that I have ever seen” asked Lipsett to edit the trailer for Dr. Strangelove. Pablo Ferro ended up doing it when he refused but his influence can still be felt in the final result.
An introduction to the hand-drawn sounds of Norman McLaren, one of the most famous names in experimental cinema. In this 1951 short, he explains his technique of drawing directly onto the optical track to produce “musical images”, the perfect balance between sound and picture, which was the basis for most of his work…
Georges Schwizgebel, swiss animator, directed a few short films in the style of animated paintings
Here’s one of his most unusual outings from the 70′s, Le vol d’Icare, at times almost like pixel art.
In 1984 Yoshifumi Kondo (Whisper Of The Heart), who was destined to be Hayao Myazaki‘s successor before he died in 1998, directed a short test in 70mm for a proposed adaptation of Winsor Mc Cay‘s Little Nemo in Slumberland.
Unfortunately, the production company didn’t like the result and fired Kondo. It was already a troubled production with drafts written by Ray Bradbury and Moebius. The final feature, started from scratch with a different animation team was finally released five years later and ended up being flawed but cult nonetheless.
These few minutes are all that’s left of what could have been one of Ghibli‘s masterpieces.
While waiting for Tim Burton‘s version, here are some highlights from the first known film adaptation of Lewis Caroll‘s story, recently restored by the British Film Institute.
Directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time (12 minutes, 8 of which survive today)
(the entire short – 8 minutes, can be seen here)
Short film directed by Noel Black. Won the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film and the technical grand prize at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.
Known as the first film about skateboarding.
Soundtrack : Skaterdater rock peformed by Davie Allan and the arrows.
(this is just the beginning of the short. If you wish to see the rest of it, you can see it here but the quality is pretty bad)
from Sundance 2010, written and directed by Rodney Ascher.
Using clips from old movies (Häxan and Halloween III among others), this “documentary” tells the story of the old Screen Gems logo which apparently traumatized an entire generation of american kids.
Written and directed by Aurélia Morali. (2006) // With Clémence Poésy & Adrien De Van // Soundtrack: Au Revoir Simone // In the middle of a wheatfield, a girl throws a paper plane in the air. It falls at a boy's feets...//
