Intense Animation - Drugs and Violence

Here's a frightening and fascinating animated, stop-motion short by Quique Rivera with a big message.  The animated piece examines the relationship between drugs, violence and ambitiion and how it is analogous to the lives of mosquitoes. 

Canon C300 Shoots Mobius, Mind Bending Western Short

Here's a mind bending short film called Mobius, directed by Vincent Laforet and shot on the newly reslease Canon EOS C300.  Looks a whole lot more like film than video to me. The new camera package costs less than $20k. For a professional looking film, that's about 1/100th of the cost of most film cameras being used on sets around the U.S.  Pretty good value. 

Intense Short Film

This little film highlights the dilemma faced by Palestinians on the West Bank in need of medical care.   It forces you to contemplate what it must be like to be denied access to a hospital/medical care - so close yet so far away.

Surprising Short Film

Here's an arresting little short film called called, "What is That?"  It was created two years ago by a Greek Director.  Great music by Wilco, and a surprising little plot line that makes you think twice about how you look at things. We could use one of these every morning in our life to make us look at things a little differently. Hope you like it.

Where did the New Microsoft Campaign Come From: A John Lennon Film?

And now a little backstory on a prior post about a much vaunted Microsoft animated TV commercial campaign...   So how do you turn a 14 year old's interview with a celebrity into a career as an animator? You do what Jerry Levitan did in 1969.  Levitan followed John Lennon, from a meeting at Toronto airport to his hotel room and wangled an interview with the Beatles lead man.  Then he turned the inteview into an animated film that was nominated as the best short animated film at the 2008 Oscars.  Here's a link to the story in Paste Magazine.  The Micrsoft campaign sure looks like the work of Levitan's team members to me.