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STASH 58 FEATURES THE WORK OF:
WIZZ
UNDREAM
SUPINFOCOM
STUDIO AKA
SOHO POST
PROLOGUE FILMS
PERCEPTUAL
PASSION PICTURES
OKTOBOR
NOT TO SCALE
MOVING PICTURE COMPANY
THE MILL
MCBESS / SIMON LANDRIEN
LOGAN
LOBO
EOGHAN KIDNEY
INFECTED
THE HOUSE OF CURVES
MICHEL GONDRY
GKASTER
FRAMESTORE
FIN DESIGN
DONDON
DIGIC
COLLIDER
C-MAJOR STUDIO
BRICKYARD
BOONEOAKLEY
BLINKINK
ACADEMY FILMS
BONUS FILM: “VARMINTS”, from Studio aka and director Marc Craste
BONUS MUSIC: 8 MP3s from Friendly fire recordings
STASH 58 DURATIONS:
Play all: 87 mins
Bonus film: 24 mins
Behind the Scenes: 36 mins
Bonus music: 37 mins
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Stash 58 is officially the biggest Stash to date – delivering 2.5 hours of animation and VFX inspiration including the 24-minute, mutli-award winning short “Varmints” from Studio aka and director Marc Craste – plus 36 minutes of Behind the Scenes extras and eight tasty MP3 tracks from Friendly Fire Recordings.
This epic journey begins with the quiet beauty of millions of carefully choreographed particles for Audi from Infected Postproduction in Germany, then zags into a series of fantastic worlds: a penguin escapes frozen boredom with help from his home-made rocket pack; Daniel Kleinman and Framestore for Pepsi; hundreds of costume clad kids provide the environment for the Toyota Prius via Perceptual Engineering, Brickyard and Fin Design; three iconic cities rise from single drops of Tiger beer via Aukland effects studio Oktobor; and the tall tale of soccer phenom Lionel Messi gets a dark and dramatic treatment from The Mill.
Logan provides the first palette cleanser of Stash 58 with a seriously twisted video full of CG-powered corruption and depravity for the latest track from producer Squeaky E Clean and the N.A.S.A. project. Prologue Films is here with two stand-out projects: the titles for the 2009 OFFF conference in Lisbon and the MTV Movie Awards package, both of which contrast nicely with Lobo’s frenetic analog title treatment for the Brazilian mini-series “Capitu” and BooneOakley’s low-tech doodling for the clever launch of their new website on YouTube.
And there are plenty of music-driven treats on Stash 58 including the classic Michel Gondry/Paul McCartney collaboration “Dance Tonight” posted by MPC, Prodigy “Warrior’s Dance” from Academy Films and Soho Post, The Dead Pirates “Wood” with animation by McBess and Simon Landrein, Birdy Nam Nam “The Parachute Ending” from Steve Scott at Not to Scale, Fight Like Apes “Tie Me Up in Jackets” from Eoghan Kidney, and Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks” directed by Patrick Daughters with VFX from The Mill.
Low budget, labor-of-love projects to watch out for on 58 include the “Miami Muerte” self-promo film from Wizz in Paris, the “Legerete Digital” online film from Gkaster for Amusement magazine, two striking new personal films from Turkish animator Murat Pak, the stop-motion antics of “Sorry I’m Late” from Blinkink’s Thomas Mankovsky, and a thoughtful new short called “Yim” from Hong Kong’s c-major studio.
Also not to be missed: Passion Pictures’ pair of emotional spots for UK charity Action For Children, the innovative and superbly rendered Nestlé spot from Collider in Sydney, the drag-fabulous Europride 09 clip from House of Curves in London, the surprisingly explicit typographic treatment for AIDs awareness from dondon in Berlin, and the stunning new CG short called “Eole” from three exceptional students from the Arles campus of Supinfocom.
Stash 58 closes with the sumptuous new Assassin’s Creed 2 trailer from Digic Pictures in Budapest for Ubisoft. Many of the startling sequences in this four-minute film clearly indicate where realistic CG is headed.
The BONUS FILM on 58 is an animated masterwork from London’s Studio aka and director Marc Craste; “Varmints” is a 24-minute tale of hope and sacrifice based on Craste’s award-winning book collaboration with UK writer Helen Ward. Since its release in summer 2008 the film has garnered glowing reviews, won multiple awards and was shortlisted for an Oscar.
The BONUS MUSIC on Stash 58 showcases another eight MP3s from our friends at Friendly Fire Recordings including new tracks from Faunts, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Windmill, Elk City and The Old Soul.
The BEHIND THE SCENES line-up on 58 is one of our most comprehensive ever and includes insightful looks into the making of: Pepsi “Flight of the Penguin” and “Rising”, Toyota Prius “Harmony” and “MPG”, The Tiger Beer campaign, the “Capitu” opening titles, the “Sorry I’m Late” short film, the Birdy Nam Nam “The Parachute Ending” video, the Europride 09 “Pufff” spot, and the “Eole” short film.
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