Technique
I was heading to junior high school one day when my maternal instincts suddenly kicked in. After being held hostage to those urges for a decade, I started to wonder if this feeling was really about motherliness. Virgin birth, genes, pregnancy… I journey through 10 years in search of the maternal.
Lorraine Lordan talks from Ireland on her international career in animation. She explains how she has been able to balance making a short film with lead roles on features, and shares what she has learnt along the way.
Accompanied by a familiar melody, the Argentinian video clip draws us into the vortex of a world whose animation is based on the magic of the zoopraxinoscope. Combined with other animation techniques, the result is an unusual work using not only a fascination with primordial animation devices, but also hand-drawn or stop-motion animation.
People should be happy. Even this Egyptian goose, who tries to cast a spell on us with a seductive dance. Its gracious and clumsy movements captivate us. But it’s not the only one to master the dance.
A town on the borderlands of Texas. A place out of time. A desert where strange lights dance in the night sky.
In the music video we visit a bizarre shop in the middle of nowhere. Our guide is a shady man in a bowler hat, who may not be as friendly as he seems. The shop offers a variety of bizarre items including portals to other worlds.
Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son Max. Though blinded in one eye, he remains the King of Tervuren. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters.
The hypnotizing pendulum sets a particular mechanism in motion. A body, space and variety of objects form a rhythmic system of interdependence. The sound interwaves with the image, creating the music of repetitive events. What is the cause and what is the effect? A stop motion animation made with threads on the glass plates coated with vaseline
Manivald is a fox in his early 30s. He is still living at home with his mother. One day a young hot wolf called Toomas comes to fix the washing machine. A love triangle develops between the three of them. Things get out of hand and Manivald realizes that it is time to move out.
The woman remembers her former boyfriends in images of animals.
A boy returns home to care for his sick mother and introduce his girlfriend to the family — but the dear mama is less than pleased with the unexpected guest.
Mamie lives in Gaspésie in a house that faces away from the sea. When the old woman receives an expropriation notice, her cloistered world crumbles. Her granddaughter witnesses this uprooting and starts to question the lack of real ties between them.
Flora Anna Buda, the director of 27, the multi-award-winning film, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film. 27 won many awards including the Palme d’Or for a short film at the Festival de Cannes and the Cristal for best animated short at the Annecy Film Festival.
Make-up pt. 2
A couple of lovers in a passionate embrace. Camera panning back, discloses a third person, a policeman, who gets himself involved in the action.
In a city of drawn characters, we witness the arrival of an entity of unknown materiality. With a mysterious presence and its exotic allegories, it starts to enchant people, awakening their most insane senses.
He said: “Krak!” The other replied: “Krrtch!”
This is an animated horror music video for the Magic Mosquitoz band.
Music video for duo Madvlllain.
This film tells about how women idealise and romanticise love affairs, and all they do and tolerate to be loved.