What is the world? What is this thing called life? What is this decay called Death? Why do we bother? Why do we go on living? Why do we keep…
Probably you don’t recognise the name Glen Keane, because why would you? Most people don’t know the names of any directors, let alone directors of animated films, so who would…
Someone’s Gaze by Makoto Shinkai is for Father’s Day, which is tomorrow, if you’re not remembering. So go hug your father and tell him that you love him. Maybe even…
Last Breath by Mak Ying-Ping was his graduation film from from the Royal College of Arts in 2012 and it’s an interesting example of animation. For one thing, I really…
Rosa by Jesús Orellana is animation so good, so clear and gorgeous, it’s better than real life. It combines some of my favorite ideas and obsessions: posthumanism, postapocalypse, surrealism, our dead and…
Another week, another wolf, another film about innocence and its passing. Perhaps more than anything else we’ve discussed so far, Carn by Jeff Le Bars is about choice. What is this life…
Who are we when we’re children? What is this world that surrounds us, that defines us? Who are we when we’re children and when do we change? When do we…
So this is a different kind of short animated film, since it’s actually a music video for a 90s Japanese pop duo. Animation and direction, though, was done by the…
The Undertaker’s comin’. The Backwater Gospel by Bo Mathorne has been one of my favorite animated shorts for a few years now, and I find it that much more impressive that…
This week’s short animated film is the award winning PostHuman by Cole Drumb, and it’s five minutes of intensity set in a hypertech future. To pull from the synopsis: PostHuman follows…
I’m a cursed man. I see things other people can’t. Dark Noir by Rafael Grampá combines some of my favorite elements into an amazing surreal noir full of magic, deception, and creation…
We’re nearly out of food. the ships broken. ← (we need repairs) the storms are getting worse. I miss you. I love animation. I love every kind of animation. I’ve…