Simon’s Cat – “TV Dinner” (2008, 8.8MB, 2:35)
Award-winning sketch (Best Comedy at British
Animation Awards), of the several available,
this is my favorite video. Each is equally
endearing, and I’m particularly fond of the
amusing vocals.
From London’s Tandem Films
10_10_07 (2007, 8MB, 1:16 min.)
From Astoria, Queens, it’s the whether|man.
More vids here..
Random Show – Always on Time (2005, 4.4MB, 2:22)
Oh, how I loved this video. And how I still do.
If you don’t get it, look up the Ja Rule/Ashanti version.
From the now defunct Random Show.
PES – Western Spaghetti (2008, 18.3MB, 1:41)
New innovative work from PES.
Puppet Boy (clip) (2008, 5MB, 1:04 min.)
For more than a decade, the artist and music video director Johannes Nyholm
has been working on animated films about the little clay figure, Puppet Boy.
In a claustrophobic chamber drama, the frustrated puppet is engaged in an endless
battle against the agonies of everyday life. Nyholm
Kiki and Bubu and the Good Plan (2008, 74MB, 7:24 min)
Kiki and Bubu and the Shift (2008, 39MB, 4:11 min)
Well, almost.
Marred only by some fashionable end-of-the-working-class-in-the-West
(who collects your trash, checks out your groceries, teaches your kids?)
nonsense, this is on the whole the finest piece of glove puppet based
agit-prop I’ve ever seen & very funny to boot.
In particular the best of these pieces,Kiki and Bubu and the Good Plan,
is an absolutely clear & devastating reply to the marketeers…
See ’em all…
Ludwig Poos Schwabe (2007, 36MB, 1:20 min)
1st Ping-Pong Lesson With Lucha Lib (2008, 31.2MB, 4:18 min)
Even 18 years after the wall came down there’s still a quite palpable
residue of the great absurdist tradition that flourished under Stalinism in work
being made in the former Eastern bloc.
(Of course it goes back further, to
Sneaux Shoes launched a consumer-generated video campaign
with a stop-motion video of a human skateboard. The TV ad
features a skateboarder using a kid as a skateboard and performing
classic tricks like ollies, grinds and 360s.
PES who directed the video made it entirely in-camera (Canon D20)
and on location through the use of a stop-motion animation technique
known as pixilation. Says PES: “This spot is a great example of the
breadth of stop-motion. If something exists in the real world, it can be animated.”
Editing and sound design was done by Sam Welch at Homestead, New York.
Rent a wreck (2005, 21 MB, 3:13 min.)
Suburban Kids with Biblical Names is a swedish band formed
in December 2003 by Johan Hedberg and Peter Gunnarsson.
They make and record their music in the hallway or the storehouse
at the home of Peter’s parents. Johan makes simple drafts of the songs
and then Peter polish them and turn them into shiny pop songs.
Screen Kiss (clip) (2005, 3.1MB, 1:00 min.)
Jillian is trying to make Billy Bob Thornton jealous, inserting
herself into existing film clips and getting kisses from Daniel Day Lewis,
Vincent Gallo, Johnny Depp, and Billy Bob
