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Yankee Gal

Mike Daly — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:38:21 +0000

A visually stunning short 3D-animated film directed by Antoine Perez, Celine Desrumaux, Francois Pons and Gary Levesque. Yankee Gal took a year to complete and was produced at the always formidable French computer graphics school, Supinfocom.

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Yankee Gal

Mike Daly — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:06:15 +0000

A visually stunning short 3D-animated film directed by Antoine Perez, Celine Desrumaux, Francois Pons and Gary Levesque, Yankee Gal took a year to complete and was produced at the always formidable French computer graphics school, Supinfocom.

Firekites’ Chalk animation

Mike Daly — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:03:17 +0000

This beautiful clip for the Australian band Firekites consists of 1910 individual chalk drawings. It took co-directors Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg six-months to complete the project from start to finish. Every day, after shooting, their bodies and laptops were covered in chalk dust. Looking at the end result, though, I’m sure it was all worth it.

A Take-Away Show of Sigur Rós

Mike Daly — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:47:35 +0000

The Take-Away Shows is a series of improvised video sessions with musicians, set in unexpected locations and broadcast freely on la Blogothèque. The project is founded by producer Chryde and filmmaker Vincent Moon, who in the first year, managed to make over a hundred films. Each one is beautifully filmed and professionally sound recorded, creating an important archive of an era in music. This one is a recording of Við Spilum Endalaust by Sigur Rós in November of last year in Paris.

PSST! Pass it on

Mike Daly — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:13:27 +0000

The concept of PSST! is quite simple: a growing collection of films, each comprised of three sections produced by three different teams. It’s a technique derived from the Dadaist game of Exquisite Corpse and the children’s game of Chinese whispers. Six new films have just been released in the last week under the banner of PSST!3. This one, called Alter Ego Dark Destiny The End, is directed by Takeo Hatai, Bryan Lee and Thomas Schmid.

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21-19 In Motion

Mike Daly — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:45:27 +0000

It’s quite rare to see nice motion graphics that aren’t trying to make you buy something. Here’s a little film about the physics of ping pong called In Motion, by Melbourne design studio 21-19.

Hillman Curtis meets Lawrence Weiner

Mike Daly — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:02:56 +0000

Hillman Curtis is one of those people who can at times be a little hard to pin down: he’s been at different stages of his career a designer, musician, author and film-maker. I find his independent, online, D.I.Y approach to film-making a refreshing contrast to the stock standard methods found in the film industry. His series of short documentaries on artists, named the Artist Series, can have a tendency to romanticise successful veteran artists and designers by presenting them as wise and all-knowing — but that’s because the films focus on thoughtful individuals who discuss matters that steer well clear of banality. I particularly like this one about conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, which was made in collaboration with Debbie Millman.

David O’Reilly’s Please Say Something animation

Mike Daly — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:19:45 +0000

The imaginative films of Irish animator David O’Reilly play between so many extremes: sentimental and apathetic, beauty and ugliness, high and low art, technological and human, juvenile and mature. His latest ‘vectorpunk’ endeavour, Please Say Something, has just won the Golden Bear for best short film at the Berlinale.