Animation Category

Animation, Asides, Music Video

Caravan Palace: Miracle

A conquistador encounters a hidden female civilization where men are but a functional cog in their hyper evolved plans in Double Ninja's 'Miracle'.

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Animation

The Animation Workshop: Film Round-up 2019

The latest batch of Animation Workshop grad films are now all available to watch online - feat. an eclectic mix of styles and subjects, watch all 6 here.

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Animation

How Antiquated Health Advice led Filmmaker Arjan Brentjes to Create Abstract Animation ‘Sand’

From Saul Bass to outdated Government advice, Arjan Brentjes joins us to discuss his surreal animated short film 'Sand'.

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Animation, Awards, Film Festival, Live Action, Music Video

And the Shiny Awards 2019 Winners Are…

DN headed to the bright lights of London to see which eight new and emerging filmmakers would walk away with the coveted Shiny Awards.

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Animation, Asides

The Mano: The Burning of Wooden Engraved Plates

Adolpho Avril’s 'The Mano: The Burning of Wooden Engraved Plates' provides a discordant expression of the outsider artist’s obsessive universe.

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Animation

How Millions of Years of Evolution Inspired Martinus Klemet to Create Animated Poem ‘Angel’s Trumpet’

Award-winning Estonian animator Martinus Klemet returns to Directors Notes to discuss his animated poem 'Angel's Trumpet'.

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Animation, Asides

Le Cerf-Voliste

ASA students Lucie Andouche & Cécile Despretz present this succinct, sombre & colourful short about the relationship between a boy, a girl & their kites.

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Animation, Asides

Food Play

Director Alon Isocianu and Toronto Studio Reactiv bring together the worlds of food and sports in their playfully inventive short 'Food Play'.

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Animation, Live Action

We Are The Weirdos: The Final Girls Present A Selection of the Best Horror Shorts in Recent Years

DN converses with the We Are The Weirdos filmmakers about the methods and inspiration behind their exciting, inventive horror films.

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Animation, Asides

The Second Coming

Eoin Duffy flexes his geometric animation skills in this interpretation of Irish poet William Butler Yeats’s 'The Second Coming', created for TED Ed.

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Animation, Asides

Nocturne

A strange group of creatures gather to gamble, putting their souls at stake in Anne Breymann’s darkly surreal stop motion short 'Nocturne' (Nachtstück).

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Mitski : A Pearl

Saad Moosajee, Danaé Gosset and Art Camp’s 1,480 frames of animation for Mitski's 'A Pearl' is a perspective shifting bona fide work of art!

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