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As the season finally closes in on us, for those tired of the same
old re-runs on TV or wanting to avoid the family warzone of the living
room and watch TV on a computer under your bed - or better still are
looking for films to share during the post-dinner
web video show-off - I've pulled together some of our favorites of the
year.
In the first bundle I've focussed on animation and stop motion,
with no shortage of inventiveness from France to Japan, Sweden to
America. As well as a particularly strong set of films using stop
motion, there's a special look at one of YouTube's first punk-star
filmmakers, Lasse Gjertsen, who was ignored while studying at the Kent
Institute but now, back living with his parents in Norway, gets millions of views for his no-budget yet most finely
cut flicks.
Of course this is but a tiny selection - do link to your favorites in the comments, and more to follow soon.
Animation
走れ！(Life in 30 seconds)
Backspace Float
Le Grande Motion
Music in the City by James Sandifer
wonders of stop motion and Lasse Gjertsen follow...
How to break up with your girlfriend in 64 steps by Lev Yilmaz
Animator vs Animation
Wonders in Stop Motion
Oh Mandy - The Spinto Band by Jon Watts
Shirts by Surf Les Bo
A motion story / Deyan Parouchev / Nikola Mihov
La vengeance de Boorbie (The vengeance of Boorbie) by Charlie Mars
Process Enacted: by Jordan C Greenhalgh
Puzzle by Rinpa Eshidan
Malajube music video - from Montreal
Lichtfaktor create SkyCast
An astonishing talent we probably wouldn't know about if it wasn't for the web - Lasse Gjertsen,
You've probably seen some of his films, and if not you really
should. If user-generated video is the new punk, then this man is Joey
Ramone, only nicer and more Scandinavian. Apparently the 23 year old
Norwegian studied animation at Kent Institute of Art & Design, which ended with his teachers 'failing to appreciate his work, specifically Hyperactive' - one of YouTube's 10 most highly rated films of all time - according to the Wall Street Journal. He currently lives with his parents
Hyperactive
Amateur
Den Lille Valpen (The Little Puppy)
Giovanni Sollima - Sogno ad Occhi Aperti (Daydream)
The Machine is Us/ing US
by Michael Wesch. If you're still hungry for inspiration, this
animated explanation of web 2.0 gives some hint of what may be to come,
now that moving image is almost as freely reusable as text.
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