Bloom by Matt Smithson | STASH MAGAZINE

Watching Spring “Bloom” with Matt Smithson

Designer/director Matt Smithson (aka one half of Igor + Valentine): “Made for fun to switch the focus from virus things to the beautiful bloomering earth around me. Bloom bloompt blummed, spring has sprung.” [Watch]

Five new ways to greet people (in times of COVID-19) | STASH MAGAZINE

Five New Ways to Greet People (in times of COVID-19)

A few weeks ago, the motion crew at Niceshit Studio in Barcelona set out to “shine a bit of light and joy for a moment while at the same time creating awareness” – we say mission accomplished. [Watch]

Minerals - Waiting to Be Found by Dan Hoopert | STASH MAGAZINE

Welcome to Dan Hoopert’s Beautiful “Minerals Waiting to Be Found”

Designer/art director Dan Hoopert, who jumped onto the Stash radar in 2018 with this lovely CG product film, is back with an exquisite personal piece he calls “a short visual exploration into the world of undiscovered rocks and minerals.” [Watch]

dro:p short film by Tasuku Nakagawa | STASH MAGAZINE

Watch Tasuku Nakagawa’s Animated Short Film “dro:p”

While creating this poetic graduation film at university in Japan, Tasuku Nakagawa could not have known how perfectly his surreal and ambitious full-CG work would reflect the current COVID-19 crisis when released this month. [Watch]

Everything Is Going To Be OK short film Jon Dunleavy | STASH MAGAZINE

“Everything Is Going To Be OK” by Jon Dunleavy

After untold days of going slightly mad in confinement at home, this soft and abstract “cosmic meditation on the battle between positive and negative forces” by animation director and illustrator Jon Dunleavy seems like the right thing to watch. [Watch]

Peripheria by David Coquard-Dassault | STASH MAGAZINE

David Coquard-Dassault’s Bleak and Beautiful “Peripheria”

Five years after its premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, David Coquard-Dassault’s somber and evocative post-apocalyptic vision “Peripheria” lands online in the middle of a real-world pre-apocalypse. [Watch]

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