Ezra Wube--Ethiopian Animator

Check out the stop motion, hand painted work of Ezra Wube!

"Mela" is a nice meditation about place and belonging.

Michael Langan's "Doxology"

Doxology from Michael Langan on Vimeo.

Check out his website for more.

NEIGHBORS (1952) - Norman McLaren

An animation classic.

Neighbours by Norman McLaren, National Film Board of Canada

"In this Oscar®-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower." (NFB website) Made during the Cold War...

Pes: Human Skateboard

The amazing Pes (Adam Pesapane) with his pixilation animation. See all of his stuff on his Pes YouTube Channel.

Norman McLaren - Canada's great animator

A Chairy Tale by Claude Jutra& by Norman McLaren, National Film Board of Canada

Check out more of his work on the National Film Board of Canada
website!

Check out their playlists: Annecy 2015 (Great animation festival in France!)

The Dot and the Line--a visual story

"The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics" an animation based on the "book written and illustrated by Norton Juster, first published by Random House in 1963. The story was inspired by Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions,(written in 1884 by Edwin Abbott) in which the protagonist visits a one-dimensional universe called Lineland, where women are dots and men are lines."
You can read it online for free here. (no longer in copyright)

Brothers Quay: animated documentary about Anamorphosis

The incredible Brothers Quay "use animation to explore the now forgotten 17th and 18th century art form of the title. The Quays reveal how, in that practice, special paintings employ visual distortion to disclose hidden messages and symbols when viewed from different angles. Leszek Jankowski composed the score." (YouTube)

an·a·mor·pho·sis ˌanəˈmôrfəsis/    
noun 1. a distorted projection or drawing that appears normal when viewed from a particular point or with a suitable mirror or lens.

Signe Baumane's "Teat Beat of Sex"

"Teat Beat of Sex" from Signe Baumane on Vimeo.

The One and only Signe Baumane tells stories of her sexcapades; sex from the female point of view.

Nikki Schuster's haunting film about empty places

Nikki Schuster's (Austria) recent film, "Absent," is a wonderful and haunting meditation on the ghosts of places that seems to be empty.

TRAILER absent from Nikki Schuster on Vimeo.

Recyclers Project by Nikki Schuster

Nikki Schuster creates wonderful work by animating the scraps and trash of a certain city (Paris, Taipei, more...) WITHIN an animation of the city itself with audio collected from the city. Fun stuff.

  Blog for Paris Recyclers here.

 Trailer for the Recyclers Project here:
RECYCLERS - Trailer from Nikki Schuster on Vimeo.



Workshop Recyclers #1: Paris from Nikki Schuster on Vimeo.

Words, Words, Words - conversations beautifully visualized

"Reci Reci Reci" by Michaela Pavlatova, 1991 (Czech Republic)

A Curious Nun & the dark side

LAPSUS from Juan Pablo Zaramella on Vimeo.

A curious nun ventures into the darker side of her world. A short film by Juan Pablo Zaramella