We’ve talked before about animation’s omnivorous nature, its remarkable ability to consume other art forms and adapt them for its own purposes. Usually when that […]
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Given its connection to Eid al-Adha, it probably would’ve been more timely to share Ayam in July instead of late September. That would mean waiting […]
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Keywords: corrinne james, monday short, starshine mountain
Put in the most straightforward way possible, Corrinne James’ Starshine Mountain is a film about guilt and regret. It’s about doing something that you aren’t […]
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Keywords: cbc, howie shia, keep calm and decolonize, monday short
Howie Shia’s entry in the CBC’s Keep Calm and Decolonize series holds onto some of the traits of his previous short, Bam, but you could […]
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Keywords: evan mann, monday short, pixilation, pure concentricity
Usually we try to use these blog posts to provide context for the films you’re about to see. We might give insight into a film’s […]
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Keywords: anna mantzaris, enough, good intentions
In 2017 and 2018, Anna Mantzaris shared a pair student films, each using fuzzy, felted puppets to explore the darker side of human nature. Each […]
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Keywords: monday short
Bernardo Britto’s Yearbook could almost be a radio play. Britto’s voice is a non-stop presence, setting up the short’s premise, carrying the narrative beats, and […]
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There’s an ongoing renaissance in animated music videos these days, probably owing to COVID making it much less practical to just do the straightforward thing […]
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Keywords: gabriel de la roche, les hydres, monday short
The entire short is under five minutes, so talking about it in terms of testing patience is a stretch, but we all know how easy […]
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Keywords: corrie francis parks, foreign exchange
The visuals in Corrie Francis Parks’ Foreign Exchange are exclusively made from two materials: grains of sand manipulated one frame at a time and filmed […]
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Keywords: adam, evelyn jane ross
For a story about the beginning of life, the Christian creation myth is strangely antiseptic. There’s no real embodiment to it, no sense of the […]
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Keywords: Jenny Jokela
CW: This film is an exploration of PTSD using intense visual metaphors including depictions of graphic violence to convey feelings of shame and disembodiment. There […]
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Keywords: nova high
Here it is, the second half of our recent additions to the ongoing Indie Animation Mixtape Vimeo channel. Although as usual, by the time we […]
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Keywords: monday short, renee zhan, reneepoptosis
Apoptosis is a process of death built into life itself. A pre-programmed end point hard-wired into cells, complex multicellular life as we know it wouldn’t […]
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Keywords: a family that steals dogs, appease the peas please, arius ziaee, catherine manesse, forming game, infinite water, island, jennifer levonian, john c kelley, la boum du gardon, lichtspiel opus 1, lizard ladder, malcolm sutherland, max mortl, mercury's retrograde, onohana, railment, robert lobel, shunsaku hayashi, such a good place to die, sunny liang, ted wiggin, walter ruttmann, xylophone, zohar dvir
We may be behind on the summaries, but rest assured, we’ve been steadily adding to the Indie Animation Mixtape since our last update over a […]
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Keywords: Chromafilm, Leslie Bell, monday short
Leslie Bell’s artistic practice is impossible to pin down, incorporating installation art, painting, performance, and video manipulation, among others. We tend to have a soft […]
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The world of Amanda Strong’s Flood is a multi-layered one. There’s the realm of the Spider Woman and Thunderbird, a world of connection, creation and storytelling. […]
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Keywords: agua mole, alexandra ramires, drop by drop, monday shorts
The relationship between documentary films and the Truth (with a capital T) has never been especially clear. That’s doubly true when it comes to animated […]
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Keywords: nfb, the danish poet, torill kove
Judging by the name alone, you might guess that The Danish Poet is a fairy tale, or maybe a philosophical thought experiment, like the Chinese […]
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Lisa Jackson’s The Visit isn’t a radically unusual UFO story. Based on a real interview with Barry and Kimowan Ahenakew, it tells the story of […]
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Keywords: mirai mizue, onohama
Usually in writing about abstract animation, there’s at least some statement from the director, some contextual writing, something outside the visuals to use as a […]
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Keywords: pirmin bieri, whatevertree
Just in time for the long weekend, we’re back with another batch of animated shorts. These films depict impossible journeys, pleasant memories, unconscious imagery and […]
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Keywords: Andrea Dorfman, How to Be at Home, Tanya Davis
Tanya Davis wrote the poem “How to Be Alone” in 2010, back when solitude was seen as something of a fallen state by a society […]
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Keywords: monday short, the stroke, vincent de boer
Vincent de Boer’s six-minute short The Stroke is something of a love letter to the texture of a brush stroke. Opening on a simple horizontal […]
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Keywords: merlin fluge, rules of play
It’s been too long since we’ve updated you on our ongoing Indie Animation Mixtape! This month’s entries tackle epic struggles, eerie playground games, the passage […]
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