Stash’s 4th anniversary issue is a raucous and volatile celebration. From crooning broken hearts to butt-kicking Chinese monkeys, Stash 48 is a 75-minute adventure in constant inspiration.

Let’s start with the big name special guests, all of whom arrive this month via groundbreaking music videos: Radiohead is here via “House of Cards” shot using lasers instead of cameras; Michael Stipe and REM re-team with Crush for more crunchy exuberance on “Man-sized Wreath”; 80’s icon Grace Jones re-invades pop culture with “Corporate Cannibal” a jarring new effort by Nick Hooker (on the cover); and Gradient Effects puts their heart into “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” for the Gnarls Barkley industrial complex.

On the commercial front: Joe Kosinski and Digital Domain are back for more brooding and brutality from Delta Squad in the new Gears of War spot; The Gorillaz and Passion Pictures director Pete Candeland monkey-about for BBC Olympic coverage; Bent Image Lab animates everything from gaseous Legos to cranky Russian nesting dolls for Milk; Mr. Hyde makes great CG strides for the Royal Bank of Canada; Psyop cuts up with Santogold; Julian Casablancas, and N.E.R.D. on the “My Drive -Thru” video for Converse; and Commercial wunderguys Smith & Foulkes give us a taste of their first feature film with the trailer for “This Way Up”.

Highlights from the broadcast design section include fresh new MTV branding IDs from Austrian duo Eat My Dear through PostPanic, an inventive series of sponsorship tags for Toyota from Zeitguised, brand new Zune fun from Nando Costa and Nervo, and two breakout MTV show opens from Stash newcomers Ronda.

And speaking of fresh talent, here are the other new kids to watch for on Stash 48: AOKIstudio from Tokyo, Lowerground from Hamburg, Pitch White from Los Angeles, Kristian Labusga from Stuttgart Media University, Prickly Pear from Dublin, Zurich 29 and Editors from Paris and Underground Economy hiding at Sealevel in Venice, California.

As usual there is too much content and too little space to do it all justice so here’s a quick taste of other important new work you’ll find on Stash 48:  A52 for Nike, Aardman for Leonard Cheshire Disability, ManvsMachine for Space, Imaginary Forces for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, National Television for Hyundai, Daysview Digital for XGMA and Leftchannel for themselves.

The three BONUS FILMS on Stash make up the fourth installment of our Student Mini-Film Fest and include: “Fallen ” by Wolfram Kampffmeyer and Sascha Geddert from the Filmakademie Baden – Wuerttemberg; “Dive: A Creative Process” by Tyquane Wright at NYU; and “Plant” by Selcuk Ergen from Bournemouth University in the UK.

The BONUS MUSIC on Stash 48 arrives courtesy of the beautiful and talented people at Kemado Records (and our music Editor Steve Marchese) – you’ll find seven MP3s including ear-expanding work from Dungen, Turzi, Langhorne Slim, Danava, TK Webb & The Visions, O’Death and Audionom.

GNARLS BARKLEY
“WHO’S GONNA SAVE MY SOUL”
Music video

Record label: DOWNTOWN/ATLANTIC RECORDS
Director: CHRIS MILK
Production: RADICAL MEDIA
Animation/VFX: GRADIENT EFFECTS, IMAGE METRICS
www.gradientfx.com
www.image-metrics.com

RBC AVION “LONG LEGS”
TVC :30

Client: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
Agency: BBDO TORONTO
Director: FX & MAT
Production: CURIOUS PICTURES, MR. HYDE
Animtion: MR. HYDE
www.mrhyde.fr

BBC OLYMPICS “JOURNEY TO THE EAST”
Short film, broadcast design

Agency: RKCR/Y&R LONDON, RED BEE MEDIA
Director: JAMIE HEWLETT
Production: PASSION PICTURES, ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS
Animation: PASSION PICTURES, ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS
www.passion-pictures.com

GEARS OF WAR 2 “RENDEZVOUS”
Viral

Agency: T.A.G. SF
Director: JOSEPH KOSINSKI
Production: ANONYMOUS CONTENT
Animation: DIGITAL DOMAIN
www.digitaldomain.com

MiZU is MiU
TVC :30

Client: DYDO DRINCO INC
Agency: HAKUHODO
Director: KINDA
Production: NITTEN ALTI CREATIVES
VFX: AOKISTUDIO
www.aokistudio.com

NIKE “SPIDER”, “MOON JUMP”
Virals x 2

Agency: WIEDEN+KENNEDY
Directors: ANDREW HALL, CHRIS HUTCHINSON, DRISCOLL REID
Production: ELASTIC, PECABU
Animation/VFX: A52
www.a52.com

BC DAIRY “BLOCKS”, “JACK VS. KING”,
“HELGA VS. HOLGA”
Virals

Agency: TRIBAL DDB, VANCOUVER
Directors: ROB SHAW, PAUL HARROD, CHEL WHITE
Production/animation: BENT IMAGE LAB
www.bentimagelab.com

CREATURE DISCOMFORTS “LOVE AND SEX”, “EDUCATION”, “SNEAKING UP”, “LESSON”
TVC :30 x 4

Client: LEONARD CHESHIRE DISABILITY
Agency: FREUD COMMUNICATIONS
Director: STEVE HARDING-HILL
Production: AARDMAN ANIMATIONS
Animation: AARDMAN ANIMATIONS
www.aardman.com
VFX: RUSHES
www.rushes.co.uk

“MTV MANIFESTO”
Broadcast design

Client: MTV NETWORKS
Director: EAT MY DEAR
Production: POST PANIC
Animation/VFX/design: POST PANIC
www.postpanic.com

“SPACE”
Online Brand Film

Client: SPACE PROJECTS
Directors: TIM SWIFT, MIKE ALDERSON
Animation/VFX/design: MANVSMACHINE
www.manvsmachine.co.uk

TOYOTA AYGO
Sponsorship IDs

Client: TOYOTA, CHANNEL 4
Agency: CHI
Director: HENRIK MAULER
Production: ROKKIT
Animation: ZEITGUISED
www.zeitguised.com

MTV “JOYSTICKEROS”, “ASTERISCO”
Broadcast design

Client: MTV LATIN AMERICA
Director: SANTIAGO GRAZIANO
Animation/VFX/design: RONDA
www.estudioronda.com.ar

ZUNE “SWEETS”, “HAIR”, BOXES”, “CAGES”,“LIQUID”
Branding/event videos x 6

Client: ZUNE CREATIVE
Director: NANDO COSTA
Animation/design: NERVO
www.nervo.tv

ABSOLUT VODKA 100
Event visuals (montage)

Agency: KAMPS MARKENBERATUNG, NOMORESLEEP
Director: TIMO BOESE
Animation/VFX: LOWERGROUND
www.lowerground.com

SANTOGOLD, JULIAN CASABLANCAS, N.E.R.D. “MY DRIVE-THRU”
Music video

Client: CONVERSE
Agency: ANOMALY
Directors: MARIE HYON, MARCO SPIER
Production/Animation: PSYOP
www.psyop.tv

R.E.M. “MAN-SIZED WREATH”
Music video

Record label: WARNER BROS. RECORDS
Director: CRUSH INC.
Production/Animation: CRUSH INC.
www.crushinc.com

RADIOHEAD “HOUSE OF CARDS”
Music video

Record label: XL, TBD
Director: JAMES FROST
Production: ZOO FILMS, BLIP BOUTIQUE
VFX: THE SYNDICATE
www.syndicate.tv

MOMA “NEW CITY”
Video installation

Client: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Director: IMAGINARY FORCES
Animation/VFX: IMAGINARY FORCES
www.imaginaryforces.com

“REBEL WITH A CAUSE”
Short film

Director: KRISTIAN LABUSGA
School: STUTTGART MEDIA UNIVERSITY
www.hdm-stuttgart.de

“CHOCOLATE”
Self-promo

Director: LEFTCHANNEL
Animation/design: LEFTCHANNEL
www.leftchannel.com

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL “INK”
Short film

Agency: TBWA
Directors: PHILIPPE CONSTANTINESCO, DORIAN GOURG, ETIENNE CONSTANTINESCO
Production: LA PAC
Animation/design: ZURICH29, EDITORS
www.zurich29.com
www.editors.fr

HYUNDAI “IMAGINE”
Viral

Agency: GOODBY, SILVERSTEIN & PARTNERS
Director: KEVIN WALKER, BRUMBY BOYLSTON
Animation/VFX/design: NATIONAL TELEVISION
www.natl.tv

AUTAMATA “NEED YOU SUNSHINE”
Music video

Record label: LEFT HAND
Directors: JOHN KENNEDY, RICHARD KELLY
Production: HEROES FOR ZEROES, PRICKLY PEAR
Animation/VFX: PRICKLY PEAR PRODUCTIONS, WINDMILL LANE
www.pricklypearproductions.ie
www.windmilllane.com

XGMA “ANTARCTIC POLAR DAY”
TVC

Agency: DONG YANG YING YUE
Director: NING HAO
Animation/VFX/design: DAYSVIEW DIGITAL IMAGE
www.daysview.com

X2
TVC :30

Client: SIX FLAGS
Director: MANNIX
Design/animation/VFX: PITCH WHITE, REALITY CHECK STUDIOS
www.pitchwhite.com
www.realityx.com

RED BULL SHAUN WHITE: “WELCOME TO MY WORLD”
Viral

Agency: SAUCE CREATIVE
Directors: CHAD WHITE, JAKE PICKLE
Animation/VFX: U.E. (UNDERGROUND ECONOMY) @ SEA LEVEL
www.sealevelvfx.com

“THIS WAY UP”
Film trailer

Client: BBC FILM NETWORK, BBC COMEDY
Directors: SMITH & FOULKES
Production: NEXUS PRODUCTIONS
Design/animation/VFX: NEXUS PRODUCTIONS
www.nexusproductions.com

GRACE JONES “CORPORATE CANNIBAL”
Music video

Director: NICK HOOKER
Production: RABBIT
VFX: VERSION2, UNION EDITORIAL, CLICK 3X
www.version2.net
www.unioneditorial.com
www.click3x.com

STUDENT FILM MINI-FEST 4

“FALLEN”
Student film

School: FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG
Directors: WOLFRAM KAMPFFMEYER, SASCHA GEDDERT
www.animation3.de

“DIVE: A CREATIVE PROCESS”
Student film

School: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Director: TYQUANE WRIGHT
www.easein.com

“PLANT”
Student film

School: BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR COMPUTER ANIMATION
Director: SELCUK ERGEN
www.selcukergen.net