La Chute (The Fall)

**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - The consensus best animation of 2018 in Cartoon Brew's programmer poll, a startling, experimental vision of cosmic degeneration. As celestial beings descend to Earth, the world’s order unbalances. Initiated by these terms, a tragic fall leads to the parturition of crucial opposites: Hell and Heaven’s circles.

Playlist January 30th, 2012

Best Animation | SOTW Awards 2012!

We honor the best animated short films from the past year from a variety of categories including best 3D, Experimental, Stop-Motion, Student and Traditional Animation.

Netflix Streaming May 14th, 2021

LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS VOLUME 2: A guide to the Short Films and their Directors

Featuring a S/W alum, Netflix's anthology of animated shorts LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS returns with a second volume of eight standalone shorts featuring giants, robotic servants and Michael B. Jordan.

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Documentary Bastien Dubois 11 minutes

Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage

The Oscar-nominated animation about a journey across the geographic and cultural landscape of Madagascar.

Playlist July 18th, 2020

Best of the RCA Grad Show 2020

With the RCA Grad Show forced online this year, we take a look at the best short films from the final year students of the Animation MA course

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Experimental Fabio Friedli 6 minutes

In A Nutshell

From a seed to war, from meat to love, from indifference to apocalypse. An attempt to capture the world in a nutshell.

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Experimental Jacques Drouin 7 minutes

Le Paysagiste/Mindscape

An NFB classic that uses the rare form of animation known as Pinscreen. An artist, is absorbed into his painting, leading him on surreal exploration of the mind.

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Thriller Kalp Sanghvi & Upamanyu Bhattacharyya 11 minutes

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Wade

In a version of Kolkata, India, rendered unliveable by rising sea levels, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger on the flooded streets.

News February 22nd, 2017

GLAS Animation Festival 2017

The second annual GLAS Animation Festival lights up on March 2-5, 2017 in Berkeley, CA. We feel a kindred connection to GLAS not only because festival director, Jeanette Bonds, is a contributor here at S/W, but because it is the only US festival dedicated to pulling together the most daring indie animators from around the world.

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Documentary Winnie Cheung 7 minutes

Albatross Soup

A delightful and innovative adaptation of a classic riddle, a chorus of voices attempt to investigate a puzzling suicide: A man gets off a boat. He walks into a restaurant and orders albatross soup. He takes one sip... pulls out a gun, and shoots himself to death. So...why did he kill himself?