From sexy decomposing zombie chicks and sharks with anger management issues to epic battles with aliens and demons, Stash 41 has just about everything. In fact there is so much variety on Stash 41, a prominent NY psychiatrist has diagnosed the issue with multiple personality disorder.

How else do you explain opening with Park Village’s Greenpeace spot where light literally shines out of multiple posteriors, then jumping to Psyop’s poetic and patriotic new clips for the Chinese Olympics? Or Akama Studios cool and clean Mercedes viral (on the cover) slammed up against Hot Head’s writhing undead ladies of the evening for E4?

How else do you explain Royale’s fashionista viral for Flaunt and Diesel leading undaunted into a deathly serious spot for Amnesty International from Chez Eddy, or Conkerco’s eerie MarjarieDaw short trapped between this ethereal fairy tale  from Impactist and line-dancing mental patients from Ghost Robot and Humouring the Fates.

Other signs of strange behavior to watch out for:

CTRL’s unpredictable clips for Toshiba and Sci Fi Channel, psychotic feline aggression from Simon Tofield and Tandem, certifiable broadcast design from Vinicius Costa for MTV Brazil, double Zune weirdness from Method and Süperfad, Deli Pictures’ manically destructive yet cheery Jeep spot, Aardman’s obsessive compulsive robot-flying granny, Nader Husseini’s Victorian hallucinations for Happy Bullets, and we close Stash 41 with a disturbing vision of lust and corrosive black goo called “Elephant Girl”, convincing evidence director David Lobser’s medication has gone very wrong.

Check the full list of inmates – uh, contributors below.

Now here’s something to make you really crazy...

All the production elements for your BONUS FILMS this issue – three virals for Halo 3 – had to be re-created from scratch because all the designs and development director Neill Blomkamp had done for his feature film version of Halo are locked away in a studio vault. Blomkamp shot these cinematic virals in a New Zealand landfill site with the soldier’s gear and live-action props delivered by legendary effects house Weta Workshop and the CG handled by Origami Digital in LA.

And finally, something sane: Your BONUS MUSIC on Stash 41 is a canny compendium of nine MP3s from the completely rational folks at indie label Secretly Canadian including tracks from Dave Fischoff, Bodies of Water, Catfish Haven, Early Day Miners, The Impossible Shapes, Damien Jurado, Magnolia Electric Co., Throw Me the Statue, and Swearing at Motorists.

GREENPEACE “SUNSHINE”
Viral :45

Agency: ESCAPE PARTNERS
Director: SVEN HARDING
Production/VFX: PARK VILLAGE
www.parkvillage.co.uk

ADIDAS “TOGETHER”, “FOOTBALL”
TVCs x 2 :60 (director’s cut)

Agency: TBWA\CHINA
Directors: MARIE HYON, MARCO SPIER
Production: STINK/PSYOP
VFX: PSYOP
www.psyop.tv

MICROSOFT ZUNE “ACADEMY OF DREAMS”,
“THE BALLAD OF TINA PINK”
TVCs :60 x 2

Agency: T.A.G./MCCANN WORLDGROUP
Director: PATRICK DAUGHTERS
Production: THE DIRECTOR’S BUREAU
VFX: SÜPERFAD, METHOD STUDIOS
www.methodstudios.com

FLAUNT MAGAZINE
Experimental film

Clients: FLAUNT MAGAZINE, DIESEL
Director: ROYALE
Animation: ROYALE
www.weareroyale.com

JEEP “TEN LITTLE VEHICLES”
TVC, cinema, viral

Agency: KNSK, HAMBURG
Director: MICHAEL REISSINGER
Production/animation: DELI PICTURES
www.delipictures.de

NET10 “SHARAK”
TVC :45

Agency: DROGA5
Director: MICHAEL FORAN
Animation: WORLD LEADERS ENTERTAINMENT
www.wleaders.com

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FRANCE “BULLET”
Viral

Agency: TBWA PARIS
Director: LES BLIN
Production: FESTEN FILMS
VFX: CHEZ EDDY
www.chezeddy.com

THE WITCHER
Game cinematic

Game developer: CD PROJECKT RED
Director: TOMEK BAGINSKI
Animation: PLATIGE IMAGE
www.platige.com

E4 “ZOMBIES”
Broadcast design

Client: E4
Director: OLIVER REID
VFX: HOT HEAD FILMS
www.hotheadfilms.co.uk

E4 CHRISTMAS “GRAN TACLORES”
Broadcast design

Client: CHANNEL 4 TELEVISION
Director: DARREN DUBICKI
Animation: AARDMAN ANIMATIONS
www.aardman.com

MTV BRAZIL “MTV HD”, “VFMD MTV”,
“VIDEO MUSIC BRAZIL”
Broadcast design x 3

Director: VINICIUS COSTA
Production/animation: VINICIUS COSTA
www.vinareel.tv
Animation (Video Music Brazil): ANIMATORIO
www.animatorio.com.br

SCI VS. FI SHOW
Broadcast design

Client: SCI FI CHANNEL
Production: GNET MEDIA
Animation: CTRL
www.c-trl.com

TOSHIBA “LOVEBIRDS”
Viral

Agency: DENTSU, JAPAN
Animation: CTRL
www.c-trl.com

“LEO'S SONG”
Music video

Director: IMPACTIST
Animation: IMPACTIST
www.impactists.com

“MAJORIEDAW”
Short film

Director: CONKERCO
Production: ACADEMY FILMS
VFX: MOVING PICTURE COMPANY
www.moving-picture.com

EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS
“THE BOX”
Music video

Record label: SURETONE RECORDS
Director: ELLIOT JOKELSON
Production: GHOST ROBOT
Animation: HUMOURING THE FATES
www.fates.com

“CAT MAN DO”
Short film

Director: SIMON TOFIELD
Production: TANDEM FILMS
Animation: SIMON TOFIELD
www.tandemfilms.com

NEWSROUND “THE WRONG TRAINERS - SAMARA’S STORY”
Documentary segment

Agency: CBBC
Director: LAYLA ATKINSON
Animation: TRUNK
www.trunk.me.uk

“THE KINGDOM”
Feature film titles

Client: UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Director: PETER BERG
Animation: PIC AGENCY
www.picagency.com

ELECTRELANE “IN BERLIN”
Music video

Record label: TOO PURE / BEGGARS
Director: CASSIANO PRADO
Production: EMENES
Animation: NOIS
www.nois.tv

THE HAPPY BULLETS “THE VICE AND
VIRTUE MINISTRY”
Music video

Record label: UNDENIABLE RECORDS
Director: NADER HUSSEINI
Production: RICK ZESSAR
Animation: NADER HUSSEINI
www.folio01.com

SONY PS3
Viral

Client: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE
Director: RED DESIGN
Production/animation: MAINFRAME
www.mainframe.co.uk

MERCEDES BENZ “ANTICIPEZ LES DANGERS”
Viral

Agency: PROXIMITY BBDO
Director: AKAMA
Animation/VFX: AKAMA STUDIO
www.akamastudio.com

ASICS “TOP IMPACT LINE”
Viral/retail

Agency: DENTSU INC., OSAKA
Director: QUAYOLA
Production: ONEDOTZERO
Animation: ONEDOTZERO
www.onedotzero.tv

HIT “COCKROACH MOSQUITOES QUIT INDIA”
TVC :53

Agency: PUBLICIS AMBIENCE ADVT. PVT LTD.
Director: RAM MADHVANI
Production: EQUINOX FILMS
VFX: PRIME FOCUS
www.primefocus.co.in

TOTUMA + PLANTA XMAS 2008
Viral

Directors: TOTUMA, ESTUDIO PLANTA
Animation: TOTUMA
www.totuma.net

DELHAIZE
TVC :45

Agency: TBWA BRUSSELS
Director: FRAGGLEBOO
Production: CHEZ EDDY
Animation: CHEZ EDDY
www.chezeddy.com

“CIRCLE SQUARED”
Viral

Client: NY TIMES
Director: TODD ST. JOHN
Animation: HUNTERGATHERER
www.huntergatherer.net

ELEPHANT GIRL
Short film

Director: DAVID LOBSER
Animation: DAVID LOBSER
www.dlobser.com

HALO 3
Virals x 3

Client: MICROSOFT/BUNGIE
Director: NEILL BLOMKAMP
Production: WETA WORKSHOP
VFX: ORIGAMI DIGITAL LLC, HT LIMITED
www.origamidigital.com