Tuesday, April 30, 2019

SIBLINGS by Diamondback Bicycles



For all you Brothers and Sisters out there... this ones for you. Our stories are all different, yet the same, and the names are endless: Adventure buddy, co-pilot, copy-cat, tag-along, queen, king... The list is long, but what it boils down to is simply brother or sister, or as I like to put it, best friend, worst enemy. Childhood was like one giant experiment and, being the younger sibling, my fate as human guinea pig was sealed from the get-go. But like Dad always said, "Every scar is one part story, and one part wisdom," and by the age of 10 us kids could have opened our own library. Over the years, we gained a lot of “wisdom” together, trying to best each other and take on the world. Through it all, bikes have fueled our adventures, sparked our imaginations, led us through a few battles, and continually reminded us of what’s most important: we’re all family. Presented By: Diamondback Bikes Written and Directed By:  Scott Carlson Mike Hopkins Produced By: Juicy Studios Mike Hopkins Cinematography: Derek Frankowski Editing/VFX: Scott Carlson Sound Design: Keith White Narration: Graham Tracey Cast in Order of Appearance:  Aven and Skyler Hopkins Rory, Reed, and Ryland Johannson Katien Simpson Jamie and Hugo Ansede Lola and Westin Carlson Josie and Daylen Clayden  Cole and Grayson McCauley Simon and Toby Hillis Ollie, Tatum, and Heath Clement Samara and Bodie Kuhn Chase and Ryder Eagleton Max Anhel Ben Kroeker Logan and Kian Merringer Trevor McCauley  Kari Kuznecov Gavin Gauvin Joe and Mike Hopkins Cal Dueck  Norm Hopkins A huge heartfelt "Thanks!!" to the amazing community of Rossland, All the Parents and kids involved, and, RSS and Patrick Kinghorn for letting us skid around the School. Thank you!

KOKOSMOS by Anna Radchenko



Next Flight Home by Jake Wegesin



A short film about discovering the things that make life worth living. A pigeon meets a dove and faces the decision on whether or not to leave the life he has built for himself in favor of following his heart.

Monday, April 29, 2019

65daysofstatic | KMF by 65daysofstatic



New single from 65daysofstatic. Released 010519. Taken from the Kazimir E.P, the first collection of material from their year-long Unreleased/Unreleasable Vol.4 project. Go here to subscribe: http://bit.ly/2XKapCk... Go here for everything else: http://bit.ly/MGFHhc

No, I Don't Want to Dance! by Andrea Vinciguerra



These are dark times. The growing amount of political, social and environmental issues fill the agendas of millions of concerned people around the world. You may think that in our modern and thorough times, every potential hazard has been identified. You would be wrong. There is a critical issue that, as yet, nobody has taken into consideration: how dangerous dance can be. We’re living in a world where dance is everywhere and, believe it or not, your kids will one day be asked to dance. Blindly following other people’s “movements” may lead to catastrophic consequences. This short film aims to raise awareness of how deadly dangerous dance can be. So hopefully, one day, when someone asks you, you will be able to reply: "No, I don't want to dance!” Featured on: - http://bit.ly/2IPUNJk - http://bit.ly/2ItKIT0 - http://bit.ly/2ILvVCk - http://bit.ly/2GzEnTQ A little behind the scene from our campaign shot in 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to8LlMuQMKI&t=5s Written and directed by: Andrea Vinciguerra Producer: Georgie Beattie Andrea Vinciguerra Executive Producer: Sandrine Servent Andrea Vinciguerra Associate Producer: Kimberley Le Blanc Animator: Tim Allen Will Hodge Puppet Maker: Adeena Grubb Model Maker: Kat Simpson Costume Maker: Isabelle Riley Set Builder: Phil Shaw Dop: Jamie Kennerley Thomas Wootton Will Hodge Model Maker Assistant: Meg Dupont Julia Lopez Martinez Props Maker Assistant: Nada Moussa VFX: Alberto Falcone Mark Miko Extra VFX: Ferenc Miko Sound Design: Father Music Composer: Pietro Ventimiglia Grade: Joseph Bicknell at Company3 (NYC) Storyboard: Victoria Budgett Animatic Sound: Francesco Corsello Equipment: Mark Swaffield Special Thanks to: Paola Lizza, Claudio Giambrusso, Poitr Tomasikiewicz, Christian Schofield - Panalux, Gary Welch, Bloc Space, Crowdfunding campaign thanks for the contribution to: Laure-Helene Prevost, Marcello Vinciguerra, Pavel Kingurov Kat Wood Jacopo Genovese Jesus Loniego

SISTERHOOD ALBUM | "Action" | GIRLS WHO CODE by Amirah Tajdin



Girls Who Code is proud to present SISTERHOOD, a digital visual album celebrating sisterhood and empowering girls. A group of teenage girls get stuck on a cruise ship, as they wait for dawn to break they play a game - where each one of them projects what they see themselves having done to change the world in sixteen years from now, when they’re 32, by reflecting on the change that want to see in the world in SISTERHOOD's "Action". The full album, titled SISTERHOOD, features appearances from Little Miss Flint, Cecile Richards, Aparna Nancherla, Sasheer Zamata, Girls Who Code alumni, and more! Girls Who Code is a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a programmer looks like and does. http://bit.ly/1qW2bSF Writer / Director: Amirah Tajdin Producer: Wafa Tajdin Cast: Shukriya Awil Mohamed Zaineb Hasoon Engy Mahdy El Shorgaby Asma Al Aloosi Maria Lountmila Pagoni Statska Afra ‘Kazaya’ Jamal Salem Othman Al Zaabi Cinematographer: Daniel Vignal Editor: Neda Ahmed Editor: Vladimir Zelenskiy Sound Designer: Brian Mullany

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Tide by Panoply



Through hypnotically crafted anthesis, Tide is an ever-evolving composition that challenges us to visually retain the present moment, while simultaneously creating anticipation for the next. As an accompaniment to the film we have released a collection of Live Wallpapers for iOS which can be downloaded (via an iOS device) from the link on the project page - http://bit.ly/2UVuQ2h CREDITS Concept, Design & Direction Panoply Audio Human Robot Soul

Courtney Barnett - Everybody Here Hates You (Official Video) by Danny Cohen



DIRECTOR Danny Cohen PRODUCER Giordi Caputo for Exit Films EDITOR Ben Hall CINEMATOGRAPHER Sherwin Akbarzadeh ART DIRECTOR Marni Kornhauser EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Leah Churchill-Brown DIRECTOR’S ASSISTANT Hayden Somerville 1AD Robbie McEwan 1AC Pietro Cusimano ADDITIONAL 1st AC Roderick Th'ng 2AC Mezz O'Brien GAFFER Adam Hunter ADDITIONAL GAFFER Candice Day BEST PERSON Nathan Klooger BEST PERSON Jayan D'oliviera BEST PERSON Ryan Bell BEST PERSON Noah Snell STEADICAM OPERATOR Brett Harrison GRIP Steve Robinson SET DRESSER Quinn Delaney Velduis ART DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT Liam Linley CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANT Adam Ziff ART DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT Melinda Cluer ART DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT Scarlett Moloney ART DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT Amy Hill ART DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT Ulla Britten-Westergren ART DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT Ned Donohue SIGNAGE DESIGNER Callum Preston CONSTRUCTION Supa Dupa Industries RUNNER Chris Pender FORUM LIGHTING TECHNICIAN Madeline Allan VISUAL EFFECTS Dave Abbott VISUAL EFFECTS THANKS Benjamin Portas COLOURIST Simon Bourne, Framestore COLOURIST PRODUCER Chris Anthony, Framestore DMX CONTROLLER David Fairfell LED DESIGN Colourblind Production Lighting SPECIAL THANKS Nick O'Byrne and Ellen Kirk at Look Out Kid, Bruce at Paris End Studios, Dawn and Mario Caputo, Nicole Manning at The Forum, Luke Stone at Stone Grip, Two Suns Lighting, Jacquie Riley, Alexandra George, Leah Churchill-Brown and Declan Cahill at EXIT Films, Sue Garnsey and Greg Lloyd at Panavision, Tom Savige at Lighthouse Rentals, Hugh Turrell, Lynden Gare at Colourblind Production Lighting, Grant Campbell, Anne Hubbell and Bob Mastronardi at Kodak, John Nicolard and Jackie Mata at Fotokem, Melissa Grisanich, Steve Cohen at Too Far Gone Screenprinting, Tom Campbell, Josh Cohen, Nellie Jackson, Jack Faine, Doug Durant, Dustin Lane, Benjamin Portas, Derry Sheehan, Dave Ellis, Alex Lashlie, Mac & Kiera.

Saturday, April 27, 2019

The Secret History of Muslims in America by Joshua Seftel



Did you know that the Statue of Liberty has a Muslim connection? Muslims have been in the U.S. since the time of the earliest explorers and have left their mark on everything from the White House to the Marine Corps sword. Watch this film and explore the many ways Muslim history is tightly woven into American life. From: Director Joshua Seftel, filmmaker and creator of the Emmy-nominated series The Secret Life of Muslims Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art Featuring: Hussein Rashid, adjunct faculty member in the department of religion at Barnard College Negin Farsad, Iranian-American writer and comedian Executive Producers: Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art Hussein Rashid Joshua Seftel Adam B. Ellick Producers: Anna Bick Rowe Lindsay Blatt Erika Frankel Animation By: Animadocs Maria Stanisheva, Animation Producer Dmitry Yagodin, Animator

L'Ogre / The Ogre by Papy3D Productions



Court métrage d'animation écrit et réalisé par Laurène Braibant Short animation film written and directed by Laurène Braibant Produit par / Produced by Papy3D

Friday, April 26, 2019

Lifehack by Will Dennis



The Online Speech Wars by The Atlantic



In theory, individuals should have the same rights online as they do in the physical world. But in practice, this is uncharted legal territory. Perhaps the most contentious area is free-speech law. “Your First Amendment rights exist in a digital space, just as much as they exist in the real world,” says Lata Nott, the executive director of the First Amendment Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, in a new animated video. Nott goes on to explain how a group of Twitter users who were blocked by President Donald Trump’s official Twitter account took this idea to the courts—and won. This video is part of The Speech Wars, a project of The Atlantic, and is supported by the Charles Koch Foundation, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, and the Fetzer Institute.

Elastic Recurrence by johan rijpma



From all directions gravity pulls on the shards of a breaking dinner plate. While the pieces of the plate expand into space, elastic strings try to draw them back together. A self-replicating cycle of falling and retracting follows from the dead center position of each piece. Even though this expansion of matter appears to be never ending, the new connections seem to unify all the fragments into a recollection of the initial form. More info: http://bit.ly/2PoTgel

Clock Face (N. Ryss) by Animos Animation Studio



Thursday, April 25, 2019

SOUL FLYERS : THE FIRST SECOND by MAXIME MOULIN



Fred Frugen and Vince Reffet, the two faces of a super-famous team, achieve exploits in flight that defy the imagination. In this interview with both of them, they firstly explain the extreme aspect of base jumping, before revealing two quite different personalities. But as soon as they talk about their relationship, we discover a sense of total fusion: synchronicity, trust, commitment, fun and danger... In the Soul Flyers duo, everything brings them together. Réalisation : Maxime Moulin Agence : Apache Conseil Concepteur : Jerome Llado Musique : Mist - Drums Versions by Ian Post - There Is Always A Reason by Bortex - Artlist. Sound Design : Thomas Roche - Mix&Mouse Sound Recording : Julien Chabbert Images : Maxime Moulin - Hensli Sage - Alex Blaise - Fred Fugen - Vince Reffet - Supersize Films - David Arnaud - Red Bull. shot on Red Gemini Red Epic, Dji Inspire, Dji Phantom. video officielle : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukWypquWVLo&t=79s www.maximemoulin.com #brandcontent #commercial #pub #docu #sport #mountain #france #annecy #alpes #montagne #outdoor

Baloji - ZOMBIES (Official Short film) by BALOJI



Baloji - ZOMBIES (Official Short film) The film "Zombie" is a journey between hope and dystopia in a hallucinated Kinhsasa, from the culture of the hair salon to futuristic solitary clubbing, from the urban parade to the glory of a dictator in campaign (Papa Bollo) to modern western in the Takeshi Kitano style. In parallel, the film is based on the almost carnal relationship we have with our phones. The device becoming like an outgrowth of the hand and giving us the talent of digital ubiquity... Le film Zombie est une traversée entre espoir et dystopie dans un Kinhsasa hallucinée passant de la culture du salon de coiffure, le clubbing futuriste en solitaire, la parade urbaine à la gloire d’un dictateur en campagne (Papa Bollo) et le western moderne à la takeshi Kitano. En parallèle, le film repose sur le rapport presque charnel que l’on entretien avec nos téléphones. L’appareil devenant comme une excroissance de la main et nous donnant le don d’ubiquité… +++ written, directed and produced by baloji with Popaul Amisi & Gaëlle KIBIKONDA / DOP : Joachim Philippe / art director : Baloji with Kongo Astraunaut & Guarino Suarez Piedra / Costume Baloji / sound : Cedric Mbomgo / Edited : Bruno Tracq / script : Baloji Production : Baloji BBL production, 2 for the show production and Pieter van Huystee PVH Film Type de film: Expérimental music video / durée: 13'58'' / Shooting support: Alexa MINI process: / Image aspect: 1.33Image / resolution: HD / Speed: 25 fps / Sound: Stereo

Phoolon Wali Holi by Kieran Mellor



Since witnessing the insane celebrations of Holi inside Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan, I knew that these celebrations deserved their own little film. Hours before the temple doors open, thousands upon thousands of devotees gather to take part in the 20 minute flower and colour throwing celebration of Phoolon Wali Holi. As the doors open, an unstoppable surge begins as the crowd funnels inside and the chanting and applause becomes thunderous. Many people carry offerings which they will bring to the front of the temple to devote to the deities, others pray as they enter through stone archways. For me, however, the most intense part comes when the entire temple unites in raising their hands, and yelling in unison as colours and flowers surround them. Edited in Premiere Pro and After Effects. Gear used: Canon EOS 1DX Mark II Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II Syrp 82mm Variable ND Filter DJI Mavic 2 Pro

Sparky / 小 灵 子 by Dian Liang (xinbaonuzi)



Sparky likes to gaze out of the window, to see every possible or impossible thing. * Awards: **BEST U.S. FILM** - GLAS Animation Festival / 2019 **BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM** - Animation Block Party / 2018 * Official Selections : *OFFICIAL SELECTION - 15th Animation Block Party / 2018 / Brooklyn, United States *OFFICIAL SELECTION - Les Femmes Underground Film Festival / 2018 / Phoenix, United States *OFFICIAL SELECTION - San Diego Underground Film Festival / 2018 / San Diego, United States *OFFICIAL SELECTION - Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival / 2018 / Kolkata, India *OFFICIAL SELECTION - KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival / 2018 / Amsterdam, Netherlands *OFFICIAL SELECTION - Ann Arbor Film Festival / 2019 / Los Angeles, United States *OFFICIAL SELECTION - Slamdance Film Festival / 2019 / Utah, United States *OFFICIAL SELECTION - GLAS Animation Festival / 2019 / Berkley, United States

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

DROP CITY by Peter Burr



"I was there the other day. So weird wandering thru those deserted ripped-off structures that so much love & agony & labor went into building. There were ghosts behind every broken window & half-off-the-hinges door. Sad hippy ghost town with a pile of human shit deposited on the drainboard next to the sink. Too many rats packed into too small a space. I guess we'll go down & scrounge what we can." (Peter Rabbit on Drop City) By Peter Burr Music by John Also Bennett Technical Direction and Artistic Collaboration by Mark Fingerhut Technical Work and Artistic Collaboration by Oren Shoham Commissioned by Daata Editions Music: JAB - "Menu Music For Video Game" from the album Erg Herbe (Shelter Press, 2019) Explore the album: http://bit.ly/2ZmsdFb For more videos commissioned by Daata Editions, visit http://bit.ly/1Ko2LD4

See Animals by Scott Wenner



Earth Day 2019. Direction& Animation by Scott Wenner Music by Pictures of a Floating World Made at motion504