When Herzog Rescued Phoenix. By Sascha Ciezata. LA.

The American Speech Society, a rather humorless organization (that claims to support the arts) had Sascha's popular When Lynch Met Lucas video removed from YouTube over a copyright claim. This animated short explains the story.

Peter Feigenbaum. Artist. Brooklyn.

Trainset Ghetto.
SICK.
Read an interview with Peter and The Morning News here.
peterfeigenbaum.com

Three and a Half Seconds About Life. Eran Hilleli. Israel.

short and to the point.
eranhilleli.com

35mm. Felix Meyer.

A shortfilm about cinema itself featuring 35 well-known movies.

The House That Joey Built. Agricultural Reader.

Founded in 2006 by Jeremy Schmall, The Agriculture Reader (AG Reader) is a small arts journal that is published and distributed once a year. This promo video features the skills of Brooklyn illustrator Joey Parlett, a contributor to the journal.
theagreader.com

Logorama. Film. France. 2009.

Written/directed by François Alaux, Herve de Crecy + Ludovic Houplain.
French animation collective H5's recent movie has been getting mad Oscar hype, deservingly so, for their short,Logorama. It's an LA crime plot, set in a corporate logo world (which disturbingly resembles reality). It's totally brilliant and worth checking out.
logorama-themovie.com

Dirty Harry. Gorillaz.

Don't Let It All Unravel. Sarah Cox. UK.

brilliantly moving.

Jem + Le Tigre = great combo

Les triplettes de Belleville. Film. 2003.

Written+directed by Sylvain Chomet. Produced in Quebec, France, Belgium.
I just re-visited this movie as I'd been thinking about it movie lots recently... its fantastic... I'm damn proud its QC associated.
p.s you can watch the whole thing (until Part 11) on youtube

No Mas Presents...

Rumblevision: No Mas and Muhammad Ali Enterprises celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Rumble in the Jungle + Ali's victory in Zaire. Made by David Rathman, Jerome Lagarrigue, James Blagden.


No Mas and artist James Blagden present the animated tale of Dock Ellis' legendary LSD no-hitter.

nomas-nyc.com

A Bicycle Trip. Animation short. Italy.

Directed + Animated by Lorenzo Veracini and Nandini Nambiar. Written by Marco Avoletta. Italy. This was their thesis film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy.
This short is about Swiss scientist/doctor Albert Hofmann, the first person to synthesize LSD... he discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD on his bicycle trip home in 1943 after 'accidentally' ingesting some. Hofmann authored more than 100 scientific articles and wrote a number of books, including LSD: My Problem Child.
abicycletripart.blogspot.com

Touch Me I'm Going To Scream.

Mixtape Club. Director. ATO Records. Label. Michael Feder + John Biondolillo. Executive Producers. Hana Shimizu. Producer.
Inspired by BBC's "Planet Earth", the streets of NYC, and the work of Russian animator Yuri Norstein.
Wonderful.

The Middle East band + Greedy Hen. Australia.

Video animation by Greedy Hen. The album is called The Recordings of the Middle East=love it.
myspace.com
greedyhen.com

Giacomo + Plastic Horse films. UK.

Music video for Three Times.
Wonderful! dig the tune and the animation.
plastichorse.tumblr.com
myspace.com/giacomomusic

Cole Gerst. Yung Yeti.

Greenimation: Yung Yeti. Episode 1. Sundance Channel.
see previous post on Girst here.

Cole Gerst. aka Option-G. LA.

Illustrator, T-shirt designer, animator, writer and director.
I love this man.
option-g.com

Olympus Pen.

Pop-Up Video.

Evelien Lohbeck. Netherlands. evelienlohbeck.com

Hamburger Eyes. California. hamburgereyes.com

The Gonz. For Adidas.

The Lost Tribes of New York City.

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love this to bits.
via-thebookoffreak.com