December 23, 2011 | New Film | by Contributions |

The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks ’hacktivist’, but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscious and a crisis-of-gender-identity. Using Adrian Lamo’s chat logs of instant messenger conversations he had with Bradley, the film explores issues of personal and political secrets, digital identity and alienation. The film was made for Animate Projects Digitalis Commissions, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

November 29, 2011 | Video | by Gerry Mak |

Here’s a clever, feel-good little animation made largely with Google Street View. It tells the story of a lonely desk toy who finds escape via a luminous desktop computer.

November 3, 2011 | Video | by Contributions |

Word Salad is a mixture of hand-drawn animation and mysterious, ominous music by Micah Buzan. I don’t know what else to say, except that it’s an astonishingly beautiful piece of artwork.

August 16, 2011 | New Film | by Wes McClain |

Monster Road gives a look into the life and work of, underground animator, Bruce Bickford. I have a weak spot for stop-motion animation so I may be a bit biased, but Bickford’s obsession with the medium is inspiring.

August 15, 2011 | New Film | by Contributions |

Enjoy this animated homage to the pop culture phenomenon. The films are all hand-drawn cell animation with highlighters used for color.

July 13, 2011 | New Film | by Contributions |

Mind Map Man is a series of very short animated movies created by Majel van der Meulen, an illustrator and designer, living and working in Amsterdam.

June 18, 2011 | Video | by Contributions |

The Penguin Prophecy is the sequel to Patient 28. This short shifts focus to Aden Moss, the doctor treating Patient 28, and reveals a possible link between the two that traces back to Aden’s childhood [watch Patient 28 here]

May 13, 2011 | New Film | by Contributions |

In this latest short film from Jonathan Monaghan, a lion loses both his crown and his head. Confused? That’s ok. Just don’t be afraid.

May 12, 2011 | Video | by Contributions |

Have you ever wished you could go back the last few minutes of your life? To say something different, to do something you should have done? Travis found a way.

April 26, 2011 | Video | by Contributions |

Toondra animation studio is one of the better known animation studios in Russia creating animated music videos and commercial animation. This is the video for the song My Name Is Shnur by the legendary rock band, Leningrad.

April 2, 2011 | Video | by Contributions |

Breeder, a motion graphics and animation studio in Brisbane, have created a short animation called Rising, which they hope will act as a powerful reminder for people to donate to the Red Cross Japan disaster appeal.

November 24, 2010 | Video | by Contributions |

Joanna Gniady, an illustrator from Poland, in a co-operation with the Karuzela Film Group has animated the collage artwork she created to Mademoiselle Karen’s album, Attention.

October 28, 2010 | New Film | by Contributions |

Life is transparent, warm and swirls randomly like a soft light. And it constantly changes in this beautiful animation by Daihei Shibata.

September 29, 2010 | Video | by Contributions |

This animated graduation movie made by three students at Georges Méliés School delicately and ingeniously tells the tale of a child who lives a nightmarish first day at kindergarten.

July 24, 2010 | Video | by Francis Andrews |

This award-winning animation from young UK director Tim Travers Hawkins is pivoted on recorded phone conversations he had with detained asylum seekers in British ‘removal centres’. It is visually dark and absorbing. The recordings provide a chilling narrative and a window into the hidden world of these ‘invisible’ peoples whom the British government, it seems, chooses to forget.