Jossie Malis has been hard at work expanding the genius behind his original Bendito Machine to a larger audience. The striking visual style (dark silhouette shapes against brightly colored backgrounds), nuanced animation, and themes of western influence have been brought to 2 more episodes.
Many filmmakers look at short films as their teenage yearshappy to get past them and on to something bigger. Jossie Malis is one of the few who understood the power he'd created with his minimalist animated short Bendito Machine and has spent the past 6 years building a franchise around it.
The sixth and final episode of the Bendito Machine saga looks to close the loop with the most epic instalment of all
The rich world of Bendito returns with this absurd look at transportation and it's costly effects on a primitive tribe.
A fascinatingly simple animation about the perils of human greed.
Beautiful rumination on the age-old perils of war from a classic animated web series.
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The classic underdog takes on new meaning in this short animated in simple, graphic shapes.
An unknown man wakes in a barren land and shortly finds himself in control of a universe rapidly spiraling out of control.