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Tag: Best Animated Short

Claydream

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Post date June 23 2021
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Director – Marq Evans – 2021 – US – 96m **** The rise and fall of stop-frame Claymation pioneer Will Vinton and the Portland, Oregon animation studio that bore his name – out on digital from Monday, November 21st Will Vinton, founder of Will Vinton Studios and the man who made Claymation a US household […]

Animation Dance Movies Shorts

Boxballet
(Boxbalet,
БоксБалет)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 17 2021
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(Boxbalet,
БоксБалет)
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Director – Anton Dyakov – 2020 – Russia – 15m 15s ***** A pencil-thin ballerina becomes involved with a rough, stocky boxer. Some things seem destined not to be… And yet… – nominated for Best Animated Short in the 2021/22 (94th) Oscars Olya and Evgeny live near each other’s flats. When running to catch the […]

Animation Movies Shorts

If Anything Happens
I Love You

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 25 2021
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I Love You
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Directors – Will McCormack, Michael Govier – 2020 – US – 12m ***** A couple and their spirit selves are haunted by a tragic loss from their family’s past in this beautifully economic, drawn animated short about grief and loss – on Netflix and winner of Best Animated Short at the 2020 / 2021 (93rd) […]

Animation Art Movies Shorts

Opera

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Post date June 23 2021
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Director – Erick Oh – 2020 – South Korea – 9m ***** Compelling, Oscar-nominated schematic of a self-contained society’s infrastructure behaviour and movement of groups of people within it over a day and a night – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival in the Short Films In Competition section – Official 4 This feels like […]

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The Big Snit

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Post date May 19 2020
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Director – Richard Condie – 1985 – Canada – 10 mins ***** Both sweet and funny. The first five minutes look like exactly where we are now under the COVID-19 lockdown. It’s basically the story of an old married couple who not only love each other dearly but also get on one another’s nerves. He […]

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Memorable
(Mémorable)

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Post date June 19 2019
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Director – Bruno Collet – 2019 – France – 12m ***** The techniques used in this remarkable short include both computer and puppet animation, with all the surfaces of both the puppets and the sets resembling that of a canvas painted with oils. It’s the perfect artistic form in which to express the story the […]