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http://vimeo.com/69580352
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Max Cooper / Tom Hodge: Fragments of Self
4 MarNick Cobby illustrated this piano & glitch composition with beautiful greyscale forms generated by Trapcode After Effects plugins.
Ferenc Cakó: Ashes (1996)
25 Feb
Gloomy visions from the Hungarian sand animation master.
Quote from Cakó:
I try to reach a little deeper, down to more social aspects in a rather strong, almost political way, just like in Ash, which was darkened by my mother’s death.
He also has an interesting claim:
It is also remarkable that Eastern Europe brings much more exciting films than the Swiss or the Swedish. Because what excitement can there be in welfare and tranquility? On the other hand, the Russians and the Czechs make very good films which are exciting in form, for example, Svankmayer, who I love.
Stephen Arthur: Transfigured (1998)
11 Feb
Stephen X. Arthur took 3 years to make this from 80 paintings by Jack Shadbolt.
Kathy Rose: Mirror People (1974)
4 Feb
Kathy Rose did all the drawings upside down and went from the first drawing to the last without key poses and inbetweens.
In the 1980s and 1990s Rose created projection performance pieces (excerpt from Oriental Interplay):
Jeff Scher: Lost and Found (2007)
28 Jan
Warning: epilepsy triggers.
Jeff calls the color variation style in this film “psychadelichrome”. Originally published in an NY Times blog.
The Presets: Promises
21 JanA retro-aesthetic melange working nicely with the music for evoking a strange nostalgia for things you never experienced.
Whitney Alexander: Western Sunrise
14 JanVery smart and efficient way of using painterly filters. The intentionally rough 3D models are brought to life by the teeming brushstrokes.
Whitney has also directed this quite remarkable alternate reality romp:
http://vimeo.com/67556622
Tame Impala: Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
7 JanArduously prepared plasticine delights (not strata-cut).
Making of pics here: http://beckyandjoes.com/tame-impala/
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