With 66 minutes in the main program, 13 minutes of behind-the-scenes extras, 35 minutes of bonus films, 30 minutes of bonus music and free HD stock video clips from YouWorkForThem, Stash 51 is a monster issue packed with almost two hours of jolting inspiration.

We start in South America with the joyous and lyrical new GOL Airline spot from Lobo and the quirk-ilicious Lucchetti campaign from Madre and PepperMelon, both of which raise the art of stylized 3D character animation several degrees. Then we’re off to London for some big-league VFX from The Mill for Barclaycard and from MPC for Fredrik Bond’s latest Guinness epic called “Fridge Magnets”. We round out the opening volley of commercials with Shy The Sun cooking up more of their baroque brilliance for Bakers biscuits, Glassworks getting naked for Schweppes, and Pierre Michel playing with fire and the feminine form for Loris.

“Peripetics”, the mind-shifting fine art video in six acts from London’s Zeitguised, provides a good palette-cleansing before we tuck into some savory broadcast morsels from Buck, Partizan Lab, Mateuniverse and Agile via DixonBaxi for Channel 5, also the new Sky rebrand campaign from MPC, Dvein’s newest macro-fantastic work for National Geographic, and we finish with sweet new event opens from Resin for the 2008 AGDA awards and from Dancing Diablo for the Boards Summit.

It’s only fair to warn you the second half of Stash 51 may cause whiplash as we bash you around between styles, techniques, genres and geography. Let’s start with this rat’s nest of music videos: Beck’s new “Gamma Ray” track via Eight VFX; Chris Clark “Herr Barr” and Bjork “Innocence” in a double shot from Dimitiri Stankowicz; Bomb the Bass “Fuzzbox” from Corin Hardy; and Of Montreal “ID Engager” through Passion Pictures.

Nanda Costa is back with a fantasy-fueled clip for Premiere, Caroline Attia brings her innocent stylings to a powerful gun control spot, plus Important Looking Pirates for Vattenfall, Motion Theory for Honda, Eight VFX for BMW and Joseph Kosinski and Digital Domain return for Gears of War 2.

And there’s plenty of fresh talent spotting on Stash 51: Watch out for the Amsterdam trio of Buro Knapzak; Craque and The QBF teaming up on “The Ambient Life”; German studios Elastique and Deine Freunde joining forces on “Concept Fascination” for Mercedez Benz; and Austrian designer/directors Strukt with crisp new work for Der Standard.

We end 51 with the world video premiers of a pair of stellar short films bred from in-house talent at The Mill in London. “Galactic Mail” and “Dix” are completely disparate in terms of technique, tone and narrative, but both films raise our sprits and our expectations of what can happen when self-promotion meets art.

BEHIND THE SCENES clips on this issue include insightful glimpses into the making of GOL airlines from Lobo, the Lucchetti campaign from PepperMelon, Bakers “Precious Biscuits” from Shy The Sun, “Concept Fascination” from Elastique and Deine Freunde, and “Der Standard” from Strukt.

The six BONUS FILMS on Stash 51 are an exclusive selection of powerful and thought provoking photo essays from the prestigious Magnum In Motion project. Founded in New York in 2004, Magnum In Motion draws on the one million photographs in the legendary Magnum Photo archive and assembles them into visual narratives that both inspire and resonate on many levels.

GOL LAGARTA
TVC :60

Agency: ALMAPBBDO
Director: LOBO
Production: THE EBELING GROUP, VETORZERO
Post/animation/VFX: LOBO
www.lobo.cx

MOLINOS
“BLENDER”, “KITCHEN LIGHT” “PERFECT MOM”
TVCs :30 X 3

Agency: MADRE
Director: TOMAS GARCÍA
Animation/VFX: PEPPERMELON
www.peppermelon.tv

BARCLAYCARD “WATERSLIDE”
TVC 1:30

Agency: BBH
Director: PETER THWAITES
Production: GORGEOUS
Post: THE MILL
www.the-mill.com

GUINNESS ‘FRIDGE MAGNET’
TVC :60

Agency: IRISH INTERNATIONAL BBDO
Director: FREDRIK BOND
Production: SONNY LONDON
Animation/post: MOVING PICTURE COMPANY
www.moving-picture.com

BAKERS “PRECIOUS BISCUITS”
TVC :60

Agency: OGILVY, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
Directors: JANNES HENDRIKZ, REE TREWEEK
Production: BLACKGINGER
Animation/VFX: SHY THE SUN
www.shythesun.tv

SCHWEPPES “JUGGLING”
TVC :30 (director's cut)

Agency: FFL PARIS
Director: WARREN & NICK
Production: STINK
Animation/VFX: GLASSWORKS
www.glassworks.co.uk

LORIS “FIRE FLOWER”
TVC, viral, in-store video 1:20

Commissioning company: MELBA PRODUCTION
Director: PIERRE MICHEL
Animation/VFX/design: PIERRE MICHEL
www.pierremichel.net

“PERIPETICS, OR THE INSTALLATION OF AN IRREVERSIBLE AXIS ON A DYNAMIC TIMELINE”
Motion sculpture 3:20

Director: JAMIE RAAP, HENRIK MAULER
Animation: ZEITGUISED
www.zeitguised.com

BMW “EFFICIENT DYNAMICS”
TVC :30

Agency: INTERONE BEIJING
Director: JOSEPH KAHN
Production: TELEMAZ/HSI
Animation/VFX: EIGHT VFX
www.eightvfx.com

FIVE: “COLOUR LOVE”, SUPER HEROES “DUEL”, “FOOD CHAIN”, “GUITAR”
Broadcast design :15 X 4

Agency: DIXONBAXI
Directors: MATE STEINFORTH, CASSIANO PRADO, BUCK, CHRIS CAIRNS
Production/animation: MATEUNIVERSE, AGILE, BUCK, PARTIZAN LAB
www.matesteinforth.com
www.cassiano.tv
www.buck.tv
www.partizanlab.com

SKY “BONES”, “WACK A MOLE”, “TWISTER”
Broadcast design :30 x 3

Director: JONATHAN YEO
Production: SKY CREATIVE
Animation/post: MPC
www.moving-picture.com

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC “THINK AGAIN”
Broadcast design :15 X 4

Client: FOX INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Directors: CARLOS PARDO ROS, TEO GUILLEM, FERNANDO DOMINGUEZ
Animation/VFX: DVEIN
www.dvein.com

AGDA NATIONAL AWARDS 2008
Awards opener 2:20

Director: RESIN
Animation/VFX/design: RESIN
www.resin.com.au

BOARDS SUMMIT
Opening credits 3:36

Client: BOARDS MAGAZINE
Directors: BEATRIZ HELENA RAMOS, JOSÉ ANTONIO OJEA
Animation/VFX: DANCING DIABLO
www.dancingdiablo.com

MERCEDES-BENZ “CONCEPT FASCINATION”
Event film 1:30

Client: DAIMLER AG
Agency: OLIVER SCHROTT KOMMUNIKATION GMBH
Director: ANDREAS SCHIMMELPFENNIG
Production: ELASTIQUE. WE DESIGN.
Animation/VFX: ELASTIQUE, DEINE FREUNDE
www.elastique.de
www.deine-freunde.tv

“THE AMBIENT LIFE”
Infomercial 3:47

Client: FREEBAND COMMUNICATION & IIPIC
PATRICK STRATING & RENE VAN BUUREN & SANDRA LENTFERT
Agency: BURO KNAPZAK
Director: THE QBF
Animation/design: BURO KNAPZAK, THE QBF , CRAQUE
www.buroknapzak.nl
www.theqbf.com
www.craque.nl

OF MONTREAL “ID ENGAGER”
Music video 3:25

Label: POLYVINYL RECORDS
Directors: MARC REISBIG, HANNE BERKAAK
Production: PASSION PICTURES
Animation: HANNE BERKAAK
www.passion-pictures.com

BOMB THE BASS FEAT. JON SPENCER “FUZZBOX”
Music video 3:35

Label: !K7 RECORDS
Director: CORIN HARDY
VFX/design: CORIN HARDY
www.mysteriouscat.com

PREMIERE GLOBAL SERVICES “PAPER AIRPLANE”
Web film :60

Agency: MUH-TAY-ZIK
Director: NERVO
Animation: NERVO
www.nervo.tv

“SARAH”
TVC :60

Client: CITIZENS FOR A SAFER MINNESOTA
Agency: MARTIN/WILLIAMS ADVERTISING, MINNEAPOLIS
Director: CAROLINE ATTIA
Production: PASSION PICTURES
Animation: Z ANIMATION
www.zanimation.tv

“DER STANDARD”
TVCs x 4 (director's cut)

Agency: HIMMER, BUCHHEIM & PARTNER
Director: STRUKT DESIGN STUDIO
Animation/design: STRUKT DESIGN STUDIO
www.strukt.com

DIMITRI STANKOWICZ
CHRIS CLARK “HERR BARR”,
BJÖRK “INNONCENCE”
Music videos X 2 2:28, 4:07

Director: DIMITRI STANKOWICZ
Production: PASSION PARIS
Animation: DIMITRI STANKOWICZ
www.passion-paris.com

VATTENFALL “CLIMATE SIGNATIURE”
TVC :45

Agency: LOWE BRINDFORS
Director: FILIP TELLANDER
Production: ST PAUL FILM
Animation/post: IMPORTANT LOOKING PIRATES
www.ilpVFX.com

HONDA “ALL IN ONE PLACE”
TVC :30

Agency: RUBIN POSTAER AND ASSOCIATES
Directors: MATHEW CULLEN, JESUS DE FRANCISCO
Production: MOTION THEORY
Animation/VFX: MOTION THEORY
www.motiontheory.com

BECK “GAMMA RAY”
Music video 2:56

Label: INTERSCOPE
Director: JESSE HOLZWORTH
Production: DAFT ARTS
Animation: EIGHT VFX
www.eightvfx.com

GEARS OF WAR 2 “LAST DAY”
Game cinematic :60

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

“GALACTIC MAIL”
Short film 4:50

Director: ASTEROKID
Animation/VFX/design: THE MILL
www.the-mill.com

“DIX”
Short film 7:08

Director: BIF
Production: THE MILL, AUTOUR DE MINUIT, ARCADI, CANAL+, CNC
Animation/VFX: THE MILL
www.the-mill.com

MAGNUM IN MOTION
Photo essays x 6

“AGENDA” 7:27
Director: MARTIN PARR

“SATELLITES” 6:49
Director: JONAS BENDIKSEN

“TALIBAN” 7:07
Director: THOMAS DWORZAK

“THE RAT STORY” 2:16
Director: BRUCE GILDEN

“WARS/VIETNAM” 6:58
Director: PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS

“FORECLOSURES” 7:48
Director: BRUCE GILDEN

http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com