Word arrived Stateside this morning, not through any official announcement, but through the tweets of his friends and collaborators. Kon Satoshi, one of the leading lights of Anime, director of the films Perfect Blue and Paprika, has sadly passed away at age 47.
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Short of the Week alum, Eran Hilleli (Between Bears), has turned his 3D animation skills toward the world of software and built an app called Looom to unlock a friendlier and more free-form way to learn animation. It was impressive enough to nab a coveted Apple Design Award today bestowed upon the year's best-designed apps.
A swan-woman explores the perils of modern life in this stylish experimental film from hip hop artist Kanye West.
Tribeca's (Online) Film Festival this year is quite extensive: 6 feature films, 9 in-competition shorts and these9 "retro" shorts from the festival's past, all available for free! We'll cover this year's competition shorts in a series of forthcoming posts, but remember that Tribeca has their own spin on this online thing, so make sure to reserve a 24-hour screening window for each film in advance. These 9 retro shorts are a bit easier to manage, rather than signing up for specific 24-hour screening periods, they are available to view at any time between now and May 1st.
A father and son travel deep into the woods to make an offering to a mysterious force, but soon realize a key element is missing.
A mother, faced with overwhelming evidence of her son's guilt in a violent crime, is determined to cling onto her belief in his innocence.
Spend a day behind the scenes of test commercial, where a wall of milk bottles are to be blown up. It doesn’t sound like a tall order, but the clash of hard-working professionals and creative egos can endanger even the most straightforward of shoots.
As two friends frantically try to leave town, a chance meeting with an old family friend puts an unwanted delay on their escape plans.
Fearing the loss of his authority and job, a lonely emasculated high school custodian targets the school's new part-time employee: a poor refugee student.
