Chris Black

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    Film Noir Taylor Engel

    The Pavement

    The city at night, a couple alone. A scream from the woman, the smoke of the gun...

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    Documentary Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

    Isle de Jean Charles

    An intimate portrayal of a vanishing island deep in the heart of the Louisiana bayous.

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    Documentary Pete Quandt

    Tuesday Afternoon

    After 33 years in federal prison, 22 of which spent in extreme solitary confinement, Jack Powers embarks into a modern world, journeying across the Northeast to start a new life.

  • Festival

    A Look Back at ANIMA 2019

    Alex Dudok de Wit was on the ground at Belgium's top animation festival. Here are his impressions, and a sneak peak at the animated shorts that will be getting buzz in 2019.

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    Horror Tiffany Kimmel

    Everybody Goes to the Hospital

    The tale of 4-year-old Little Mata (writer/director Tiffany Kimmel's mother) as she's taken to the hospital in late 1963 with appendicitis.

  • Interview

    Interview with Kurt Nishimura (O Valencia!)

    How did you hear about the contest MTVU/Decemberists contest and what made you want to participate? I heard about The Decemberists contest from an e-newsletter that my school put out (The Art Institute of Portland). The deadline was like two weeks away, and I was seriously considering passing it by.

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    Experimental Louis Lefebvre

    I, Pet Goat II

    Symbolic remix of the world's modern travesties rendered with an incredible level of polish by a new Canadian animation studio.

  • Article

    Has Hollywood Lost its Way?

    The top 7 films in 2011 were all sequels—and three of those are part of franchises that made the same list 10 years ago. We all know there's a lack of original stories coming from Hollywood these days, but just how bad is it?

  • Celebrities

    Strawberry Swing

    Inventive music video for Coldplay featuring lead singer Chris Martin as an explorer of new worlds and realized entirely in drawn chalk animation.

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    The Changing Game of Distribution

    This year marked an interesting milestone for the Oscar nominated animated short films. For the first time in recent memory, people actually watched them.

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