Oskar Fischinger

Oskar Fischinger (22 June 1900 — 31 January 1967) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter. He made over 50 short animated films, and painted around 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries and collections worldwide. He was also into music (see link below videos to access his bio).






Homepage with more info.

Tadanori Yokoo "Kachi Kachi Yama" (1965)

Tadanori Yokoo is one of the world’s foremost graphic designers, in the same league as Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. He is also often compared to Andy Warhol and Peter Max.

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Tadanori Yokoo HOMEPAGE

Tim Minchin's Storm

Official animated movie of Tim Minchin's 9-minute beat poem Storm. Written and performed by Tim Minchin. Directed and animated by DC Turner. Produced by Tracy King.

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Sun Xun

From People's Republic of Zoo. VIDEO LINK to People's Republic of Zoo via the Muscreen.

Sun Xun is a Chinese artist/animator using techniques that resemble traditional line drawings of old Chinese art.


LINK to a bunch of illustrations at EscapeIntoLife

LINK to Beyond-ism at the ShanghART Beijing (Jan 16 - Apr 10, 2011)

Takeuchi Taijin (animator)

"First I photographed stop motion　animation, then displayed the photographs in my room and photographed them again."
--Takeuchi Taijin

Abuela Grillo (animation)

The animation Abuela Grillo (Grandma Cricket) was produced by 8 Bolivian animators: Alejandro Salazar, Cecilia Delgado, Joaquín Cuevas, Mauricio Sejas, Miguel Mealla, Román Nina, Salvador Pomar and Susana Villegas, under the direction of French animator Denis Chapon.

If you've seen the movie Gasland by Josh Fox you have an idea what industries are doing to the water. This animation shows Abuela Grillo leaving the countryside for the city where water becomes a commodity. Since she has the ability to create rain when she sings, some square metal guys are taking advantage of her talent ...

LINK to Vimeo.

HUM -- Soeren Bendt

Soeren Bendt/Denmark/2007
It's a little robot on a mission to make his tool shead a brighter place. The work was done in Maya and the clear details in the video are interesting to observe.

Hum

See more at Bendt's homepage

Voltage -- Filippe Lyra, William Paiva

A short animation directed by Filippe Lyra and William Paiva, produced by Barros Melo


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The video below shows some sketches of how it was created:

Adriaan Lokman -- Barcode-2001

Barcode is a roadmovie through an abstract virtual world. Travelling over and through landscapes the spectator is taken in a play of light and shade. Sometimes the light moves freely, then it is collected, reflected or transformed. The shades lengthen and crawl together. Quick spotlights create stroboscopic effects, race through curves and settle down. In the end the afterimage fades out and the spectator blinks. With Barcode Adriaan Lokman takes the abstract animation film to the twenty-first century: computer-generated and very, very sensational.(source)



An abstract road movie through the Netherlands, containing only light and small poles. The result is a ballet of light and dark, a virtual trip through space and light. (IMDb)
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Logorama (shortfilm)

This is a very clever animation all made up of logos, showing the corporate cut-throat attitude the capitalist needs to have to survive.

"Nominated for a Best Animated Short Oscar, Logorama takes place in a world full of corporate and brand logos (in which roughly 2,500 appear), and it follows a few different stories that all intertwine with one another. Honestly, it's bloody brilliant, and I guarantee it'll be the best thing you watch all week." (source)

GO HERE INSTEAD

Movie info HERE
Review HERE

Hungu (animation)

A video inspired by the African legend where a mother is resurrected by her son in the form of a musical instrument, the Hungu.

Mister Cok (animation)

An animation by Franck Dion (2009).
Looking for efficiency and profit in his bomb factory, Mister Cok decides to replace his workers with sophisticated robots, but one worker is not discarded so easily.

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Android Heads Talking

I've seen these before, but now they made it to a major art show: Art Basel Miami Beach 2009, where they sell for $75,000. To me they look pretty dead in expression and manifestation, however, the possibility of being confronted with one of them (like at a border or something) seems possible in the not so far future. The heads are connected to computers behind the 3D faces.

Ivan Maximov (animation)

Russian animation written and directed by Ivan Maximov

BLU animation

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A Color Box by Len Lye 1935 (kinetic movie)

Len Lye was a New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. He was a pioneer of direct-animation, and also a highly innovative painter, photographer and poet, as well as an important figure in kinetic sculpture. Born in New Zealand, Lye left home as a young man in search of film activity and the stimulation that would satisfy what he called his preoccupation with art and movement. Inspired by the primitive imagery of South Sea island art and film’s power to present dance ritual and music, Lye’s experimental – and often revolutionary – camera-less techniques attracted the attention of John Grierson and Alberto Cavalcanti of the General Post Office Film Unit in London, which sponsored Colour Box and other films. Although Lye’s filmmaking had nearly ceased by the late 60s, he continued to speak of his belief in cinema as “the Cinderella of the fine arts. Her beauty lies in her kinesthesia… The fine art film requires urgent consideration.”

Solar [the film] (animation)

Solarthefilm is a short film by Ian Wharton and Edward Shires telling the tale of the sun, moon and two characters who inhabit a world that relies on day and night. Music by Skoud

LINK click on WATCH THE FILM where you can watch it there online or download it ...
or play the 4:17 min. YouTube below: