The Ganzfeld Procedure – Keith McCarthy
I love this.
The Ganzfeld Procedure is a technique used in the field of parapsychology to test for ESP. When two patients meet during this eponymous experiment something unexpected happens – they fall in love. Inside their minds! Featuring ‘Dog Days Are Over’ by Florence & The Machine.
Crater Face – Skyler Page
A bittersweet tale of an astronaut that risks his life to bring two moon pimples together. It’s a bizarre story, so touching it will bring a tear to your eye. It was created by Skyler Page using Flash during his second year at CalArts.
The incredible soundtrack is by Dan Deacon
Dark, cold and beautiful.
Created by Polynoid, the collective of Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck and Tom Weber. It won Jury Honors at Siggraph 2006 and the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2006.
Music by Dada-Inn.
Last Minutes with ODEN – Eliot Rausch
This is the most heartbreaking short film I have ever seen… If you’re a dog owner or lover this will probably leave you broken.
It’s the tale of Jason Wood’s last few moments with his dog ODEN… It’s the sharing of a moment so powerful and honest you can feel their sorrow deep within your soul.
Director of Photography: Luke Korver, Matt Taylor
Song: Big Red Machine / Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner
The Piano -- Aidan Gibbons
Very simple and very beautiful. An old man shares his life story with his young grandchild through music.
The song is: “Comptine d’un autre été: l’après midi” composed by: Yann Tiersen
Please Say Something – David OReilly
I pretty much love everything David O’Reilly has ever done. I first saw his work at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2005… The amazing music video for Venetian Snares ‘Szamar Madar’. Since this he has produced some awesome stuff, including a music video for U2, onstage visuals for MIA and a handful of amazing, mind bending shorts… Seriously… Mind bending… You have to watch them.
His work is kind of a mix between Sega 3D graphics, Chris Ware, Windows Paint and bad dreams.
I can’t wait to see his latest project Serial Entoptics… It looks very subtle compared to this… still very beautiful… although with Venetian Snares appearing on the trailer it could become explosive.
Check out all of his other works on his website: http://www.davidoreilly.com
YouTube video has recently been made private. This could have something to do with a festival rules or perhaps they are trying to push the DVD sales… I’m not sure. You can still watch the movie via Court 13 here (a slower download though):
http://www.court13.com/gloryatsea.mov
Glory at Sea – Benh Zeitlin
This is such a beautiful film… It has quite a slow pace put builds into a truly heartbreaking crescendo.
The music composed by Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin and features the song: That’s All, Goodnight, written by Osei Essed and performed by The Woes
Glory at Sea is available to buy at Court 13 along with their other productions.
Oktapodi – Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier and Emud Mokhberi
Another amazing student animation from Gobelins. Enough said
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