Since it is Animateka these days, let me remind you of one of my all time favorites, Norman McLaren’s Pas de Deux.
In the spirit of www widening our palette of possibilities …
Thanks to Colossal.
Of course, all the fun starts at mark 0:46 with Behemot’s arrival.
Rinat Timerkaev’s Master and Margarita is due by the end of next year. From what I think I see in this short trailer, I would say that he masterfully employs some kind of Hayao Miyazaki’s sensitivity to Mikhail Bulgakov’s world of justice and eternal salvation.
Even if you don’t speak Russian, it’s worth checking his previous short I Love You. The moment it starts to rain is pure poetry. And those red trams and paneláks behind them brought intense memories of Prague in early nineties. This boy has a touch. I am sure we’ll hear more of him in the future.
If you’re lucky enough to speak Russian, you can find more on his blog.
(via Master and Margarita)
A kind of a steam punk kids adventure story adapted for big screens by Martin Scorsese. The book is beautiful. It is partly drawn and partly written. Reminiscences of Oliver Twist and Mechanical Turk. Hidden. Mysterious.
On the shelves of the legendary Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company books come to life at night. Spike Jonze has something to do with it. It isn’t a dream. It’s his most recent project.
Andrew Kolb’s illustrated Space Oddity now spiced up in animated motion by Andrew Ruttan.
In support to occupywallst.org. My eyes are filled with hope.
A tiny visual delight on the work of contemporary artists Olek and Swoon from PBS Arts. Enjoy!
From world-renowned stop motion animator Barry JC Purves comes Tchaikovky, an animated interpretation of the life and work of the great 19th century Russian composer. The film will hit the big screens later this year. While working on the set, cameraman Joe Clarke shot a mesmerising series of time-lapses of the masterminds in action – Purves and Tchaikovsky:
He’s also uploaded some gorgeous stills from the film on his website.
I am exquisitely thrilled about this one!
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
(Shakespeare, The Tempest)
I saw this beautiful short animated feature at the Animateka film festival in 2009. It’s stayed with me since, like a line from Shakespeare or a poem by Rilke. Enjoy!
For his own jollies, illustrator Andrew Kolb turned David Bowie’s Space Oddity into a children’s book. What great fun! And he’s decided to share the whole of the book here.
Major Tom is one of my hero-explorers too. Unafraid of having his gaze shifted by the nebulous tides of his wonder, he marches out into … space.
Via The Paltry Sapien.
By 14 he had written five novels and penned a diary about the Nazi occupation of Prague. By 16 he had produced more than 170 drawings and paintings, edited an underground magazine in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, written numerous short stories and had walked to the gas chamber at Auschwitz.
Petr Ginz, Moon Landscape
From Wake Forest University and University of Florida comes a staggering documentary about this boy of wondrous creativity who had remained virtually unknown until in 2003 a particle of his paper dream, a drawing entitled Moon Landscape, journied into space on Space shuttle Columbia that never returned due to its tragic disintegration during re-entry.
Sydney based motion designer Patrick Clair specializes in visualizing information. Gorgeous visuals plus terrible information equals brilliant short animated documentaries.
Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus and How Green Is Your Internet? were both produced for Australian TV Program HungryBeast on ABC TV.
More of his work can be seen here.
