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Director Don Hertzfeldt joins moderator Miguel Penabella (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of his films ME and It’s Such a Beautiful Day. They discuss his time as a UCSB student and his early interest in animation, as well as the development of his new film. Hertzfeldt also shares insights into his influences from silent cinema, and his thematic interests in deep time and memory across his work.
This is an animated story about the time Steve, my pet ferret, had to get a splenectomy. I hope that by the end of this video you will love him as much as I do.
AnimatekaPRO is the Animateka festival platform for animation professionals and students. It was conceived as a place where one can learn about the latest trends, be updated on the latest developments, and meet exciting film professionals while exploring the fantastic world of animated film. As a part of AnimatekaPRO, for the fourth consecutive year, the AnimatekaPRO Pitch competition for projects in development will give an insight into the state of animation in ex-Yugoslav countries.
A mysterious box arriving at the door disturbs Salini’s peaceful routine leaving her paralysed and obsessed with discovering the contents of the box. I poured so much of myself into this project and have fallen in love with stop motion as well as the weird and wonderful world that Salini lives in during this process. The patience and care needed to create it has taught me a lot about the gentleness and love that we owe to ourselves and each other.
Painted animation film about woman and man having a vital fight about the empty pack of milk.
The topic of this lecture is to provoke the audience into being more sensitive to their everyday surroundings and to take note of precious material for their work (in any form) in small, rarely noticed phenomena, situations, objects, and movements. Ideas are not far from us. We often just need to change the angle from which we are looking at apparently mundane things. In addition, I will suggest a few games that could become ways of turning the slow and sometimes overwhelming process of animation (frame by frame by frame after one more frame…) into something more playful, even adventurous.
A story of a man with a very dense eyes who sees all the surrounding reality only after seven years. The consequence of the eye defect translates into the mental immaturity of the man, lack of understanding of the present and belated reflections on long-gone facts. The man is never mature enough for his age and constantly lingers on the past.
Buster Moon and his friends must persuade reclusive rock star Clay Calloway to join them for the opening of a new show.
An X-actress stars in the Devil’s cannibalistic snuff movies in exchange for a beautiful bombshell skin. As she lures a runaway-bride to the studio to devour on camera, she develops feelings that will disrupts the Devil’s scenario.
One of two commercials I made for Ski Yoghurt.
Film Sierra premiered at Clermont-Ferrand. Here’s a little compilation of what was going on.
Behind the scenes of short film SIERRA.
Director interview with Shoko Hara. Film referenced in this interview: Shoko Hara – Just A Guy (2020).
Millie and June have been best friends for ever and get on each other’s nerves. But old friends are irreplaceable. If they still like you even though they know you, that can’t be bad.
Q&A with Gints Zilbalodis, director of FLOW, at Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
The music video for Brand New Me is an animated, retro cartoon‑style narrative where Saint Etienne and Confidence Man appear as rival pop groups competing in a stylized musical contest reminiscent of classic Hanna‑Barbera cartoons.
Rosamund Pike, the voice for Moominmamma, and Taron Egerton, the voice for Moomintroll, tell Moomin.com what it’s like to give a voice to a character with such a strong, loving fanbase, and why they think so many people love the Moomin stories and the philosophy behind them.
Single: Make Luv.
ROBOT DREAMS director/screenwriter/producer Pablo Berger discusses the film at the AMC Century City 15 in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 3, 2024. Video shot live on location, organized, assembled, written (via editing), & edited by TheMovieReport.com
If you HAD to kill your ex, how would you do it? “R.I.P.”, a digital show created and directed by Lena Greene and Lorraine Nicholson, asks real humans that question and they elicit some pretty creative responses. The interviews are then brought to life by Nicholson and Greene, who creatively illustrate the narration in any way they see fit.