“Smart Matter,” the first in the Hype Cycle series of futurist films coming from UK digital art and design studio Universal Everything, explores “human-machine collaboration through performance and emerging technologies.” [Watch]
Started as a Facebook group, Punanimation has since evolved into “a collective of equality-driven ladies aiming to support, connect and share women’s work within the animation industry.” [Watch]
To mark International Women’s Day 2018, Strange Beast director Anna Ginsburg surveys the evolution of the female form and its perceptions over the last 30,000 years. [Watch]
The newly unified Paris studios of MPC Advertising and Mikros handle the feathery creature craft in this cheeky and hard-to-ignore full-CG spot directed by FutureDeluxe for UK mortgage brokers L&C thru agency Fold7. [Watch]
Director Spike Jonze, who won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for “Her” in 2014, seems the obvious choice for this four-minute dazzler featuring another female-voiced AI who helps cheer up FKA Twigs. [Watch]
Japanese artist/director ShiShi Yamazaki brings her hand-painted rotoscope magic to a dynamic new spot for Chanel’s Gabrielle bag starring British model/actress/phenom Cara Delevingne. [Watch]
