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More Animated Sadness: Sensory Overload

If yesterday’s heartbreak didn’t quench that gaping black spot’s need to recognize how truly hard it is for some, let’s hit a slightly different note of that same sad song…

Sensory Overload (Interacting with Autism Project) from Miguel Jiron on Vimeo.

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How Many Ways Can We Collaborate Around A Single Film?

We will work together to build it better.  We will use the tools we have, but not let them restrain us. Let’s turn our limitations — financial & otherwise — into assets (may our chains set us free).  We will not let ego drive us away from an ambitious and interesting cinema.  Let’s acknowledge that defining a true author in cinema is hard, and the act of creation is rarely original. Everything is a remix.In an era of Grand Abundance, it is best practice to be even more generative, but less authorial.  And if all that is where we are, where does it leave us?

I am always looking for new methods of collaboration and new ideas of how someone else might riff off of one artist’s work.  Multiple authors have multiple arms and louder voices; their success is everyone’s & their failure no one’s.  If we

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“I Hope You Find What You Are Looking For”

Julia Pott’s animated short “Belly” is a profoundly moving, visually stunning bit of cinema. So sad and lovely.

Hat tip to VHX.tv

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Happy National Book Lovers Day

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

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True Love Means Sticking Together

When you find someone to share your life with you are not about to let outside forces to separate you.

“Oktapodi” is an Oscar-nominated short from 2007 that captures this quite well.

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Animated Docs: One of My Fave Genres

Whether it is “Doc Ellis And The LSD No No” or “I Met The Walrus“, I have a unique spot in my heart for Animated Docs.  It may just be  because on the surface it doesn’t seem to make sense: how can truth be animated? But then, ultimately my mind rebels against itself and determines that it makes more than sense: it makes truth.

Today’s installment, further enhancing my affection for the genre as a whole is, Sascha Ciezata’s (iT’S ALIVE! ANIMATION) “When Herzog Rescued Phoenix”

When Herzog Rescued Phoenix from Sascha Ciezata on Vimeo.

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How We Build A Better & More Beautiful World

Well, hopefully it doesn’t require us to quite go this far, but who doesn’t love a good machine?

Thanks to Visual News for the tip!