Tag: 2D

  • ‘Mining for Muybridge’ by Tim Cole

    Not your usual animated documentary – more effects and archive footage worked together to explore the world of Eadweard Muybridge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMeY55JYh0I

  • ‘Bid Em in’ by Neal Sopata

    A young woman’s humanity is cruelly rejected as she is placed on the auction block of a small southern pre civil war America. Animation and historical photographs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3j7rPscpY

  • ‘The Next Day’ by Jason Gilmore

    The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and TVO launch The Next Day, a groundbreaking interactive animated documentary constructed from intimate interviews with survivors of near-fatal suicide attempts. http://thenextday.nfb.ca/#/thenextday

  • The Wrong Trainers: Dillon’s story by Kez Margrie

    A collection of short animated docs looking at child poverty in the UK. https://vimeo.com/5743346

  • ‘Thembi’s Diary’ by Jisoo Kim

    Recommended by Laura Heit over on our Facebook page, here’s a film made in the US from an audio diary recorded by a 19 year old South African. Beautiful textures and a lightness of approach… http://vimeo.com/11236137

  • ‘And We Were Young’ by Andy Smetanka

    Check out the Kickstarter campaign to fund this paper cut film (to be shot on 8mm!) about American soldiers in the First World War, from US director Andy Smetanka. Campaign here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1486916197/and-we-were-young?ref=card Teaser and pitch here: http://laughingsquid.com/and-we-were-young-a-cut-paper-animated-documentary-about-americans-in-wwi Good luck Andy!

  • “Ek Anek Aur Ekta” by Vijaya Mulay

    Here, a glimpse into government-sponsored short films of 1980s India. Doordarshan, the national broadcaster, regularly screened this popular film for kids. The title translates directly as “one, many and unity” and the film is designed to spread the message of unity in diversity among children. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DZUKQClvc Director Vijaya Mulay, now 91, reveals something of the…

  • ‘Places Other People Have Lived’ by Laura Yilmaz

    Thanks to Tom Price for bringing this film to my attention: an autobiographical exploration of memory, using a number of 2D techniques & approaches. Well worth a look… https://vimeo.com/31943880

  • ‘About Running’ by Suky Best

    The UK’s Great North Run has just opened its Moving Image Comission for 2012: a £30 000 budget to make new work in response to the world’s largest half-marathon. More info here: http://www.greatnorthrunculture.org/moving-image/apply I just discovered in the archives a film from 2007 by director Suky Best which focuses on the stories and experiences of…

  • More from London production company Beakus for the National Maritime Museum

    A beautifully crafted collection of clips commissioned for interactive exhibits at the museum in Greenwich, to be viewed on tablets PCs, directed by Leo Bridle and produced by Steve Smith. http://beakus.com/blog/nmm-mobile-learning