Not-for-profit production company SALT and illustrator Elena Skoreyko Wagner add a sense of meandering whimsy to American poet Marie Howe’s “Singularity (after Stephen Hawking)” in this short for the virtual version of the 2020 Universe in Verse event. [Watch]
New London studio Optical Arts just leaped onto the Stash radar with the submission of “Utopia”, their intriguing architectural exploration of “an imaginary mausoleum in Chandigarh, Le Corbusier’s modernist city in Northern India.” [Watch]
Mixing long exposures on a vintage Bolex with motion control and in-camera projections, Smuggler directors Jason Sondock and Simon Davis (aka rubberband) pull off a technically ambitious lockdown video with a gritty/lo-fi feel for NYC duo Lewis Del Mar. [Watch]
The latest looping treat from Laurie Rowan, the UK animator, illustrator, and director (thru Nexus Studios) whose collection of eccentric CG character gifs has generated over 700 million views and twice as many smiles. [Watch]
The latest in Ruffmercy’s music video canon finds the London director/animator using gold leaf and homemade Super 8 textures to enhance footage of Brussels-based vocalist Martha Da’or on the track “Moving On” by Italian producer Clap! Clap!. [Watch]
Egyptian agency KAIRO for Ideas gathers local creatives including artist/illustrators Muhammad Mustafa and Mariam ElReweny, animators Alia Mohamed Wahby and Asem Kamal, plus rock band Cairokee for the Abo El-Reesh Children’s Hospital. [Watch]
