Inspired by Haruki Murakami’s 1987 novel Norwegian Wood and her own experience with mental illness, “Isle of Chair” represents the culmination of a four-year passion project for London-based animation director and illustrator Ivyy Chen. [Watch]
Director/animator Jeremy Schaefer at the Ringling College of Art and Design: “‘The Box Assassin’ is a short film about a pizza delivery boy’s unforgettable night of running into a slick, legendary assassin that defeats his enemies in clever ways you couldn’t imagine.” [Watch]
A wonderfully apocryphal real-life Craigslist Missed Connections ad takes on a loveable new life in this passion project from Toronto director/animator/designer Patrick Dias who mixes 2D and 3D into a modern urban fairy tale. [Watch]
Designer/animator The Dink in London: “This experimental short follows the movement and personality of various household items. The environment that each brush finds itself in directly impacts the way they move, with each scene depicting a unique movement and flow providing an individual character to each brush. [Watch]
In this expansive and poetic branded content film for Eli Lilly, Hornet director Yves Geleyn draws a parallel between the connectedness of the solar system and the importance of medical sequencing in cancer treatment. [Watch]
From Panoply on London: “Curiosities is an on-going series that explores a variety of ideas and concepts from the artistic to the technical. [Watch]
