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An excerpt from one of the last films by Akira Kurosawa, made when he was 78 years old. In this scene, an art student finds himself inside the vibrant and sometimes chaotic world of Van Gogh’s artwork. He wanders around looking for the master himself, travelling through several of his works to find him.

The Johnny Cash Project is a unique communal work, the result of thousands of contributions from artists and fans around the world. On the project website, participants can create a unique and personal portrait of Johnny Cash. These frames are combined and integrated into a collective whole: a crowdsourced music video for “Ain’t No Grave”, one of Cash’s last studio recordings before his death.

This is an excerpt from an animation that consists of 12,597 handmade aquarelle paintings, each no larger than 1.5x3cm in size. Together, they form a 35-minute-long paraphrase on the motion picture Blade Runner (1982).

For his Master’s thesis, a computer programmer used the film Blade Runner (1982) to train an artificial network called an autoencoder. This program reduced the complex visual data to a small filesize, then reconstructed it frame by frame. This is a scene from the reassembled film, which is both highly abstract and still similar enough for Warner Bros. to order it taken down from Vimeo for copyright infringement.

Two elderly swimmers meet at the baths for their ritual swimming. This time they are diving deeper than usual. With a cool kind of magic, this delicately stylized film draws us into various layers of reality, as we plunge from silent melancholia into the graphic frenzy of competitive sports, where everything is turned upside down.

It’s Sunday. At lunch, Jean observes his family. They ask him questions, but don’t listen to his answers; they give him advice but don’t follow it themselves; they fawn over him and smack him, but that’s normal, it’s Sunday lunch.

Beer is a free interpretation of the poem “Beer” by Charles Bukowski.
Considering the composition a manifesto of the author’s way of life, the filmmakers decided to go inside the author’s mind. And it is not a safe journey: a brain solo without filter, a tale of ordinary madness, showing how much loneliness and decadence can be hidden inside a genius mind.

This music video was created as a special episode of Adult Swim’s Off the Air. It features original animations by nine artists: Jake Fried, Chad Vangaalen, Dimitri Stankowicz, Colin White, Taras Hrabowsky, Anthony Schepperd, Masanobu Hiraoka, Caleb Wood and KOKOFreakbean.

Een ongewoon levensverhaal in acht minuten, vanuit het perspectief van een kleinkind.

Laura Stewart is, naar eigen zeggen, “always looking to break your heart just a little bit.” Of Blobby daarin slaagt, durven we niet voor u in te vullen.

Men zegt dat de tijd heelt, maar voor wetenschapper Peter gaat deze veel te snel voorbij. Zijn gierende existentiële crisis wordt in prachtige zwart-witte origami-stopmotion uiteengezet.

In een kleurrijk bos zit een ijsbeer te vissen. Een vos te fietsen. Een pinguïn te slalommen. 

De officiële synopsis van deze sfeervolle, raadselachtige, emotionerende animatiefilm maakt het er niet direct duidelijker op: ‘I can feel you in my Belly.’ Daar moeten we het mee doen.