Tag: USA

  • ‘Wham! Bam! Islam!’ by Isaac Solotaroff

    A live action documentary which follows the creation of Muslim comic book heroes and uses animated sequences to bring the characters to life. “WHAM! BAM! ISLAM! tells the story of Naif Al-Mutawa and his venture to create the first team of superheroes from the Muslim world called THE 99. Following the tumultuous journey of THE…

  • ‘The Manhattan Project’ by Cameron Michael

    This film is definitely tends towards the cheesy for my taste, but I’m always saying time-lapse is underused as an animadoc medium and I always want to see more of it. (For a great example see Schendler & Segal’s London film ‘Timeline’ here). The Manhattan Project HD1080P from Cameron Michael on Vimeo. Check out this…

  • ‘Ex Libris’ by Melissa Hacker

    Ex Libris is a hybrid non-fiction film using animation, collage, and first person narrative to trace the vanished world of the ex libris collection my grandfather, Marco Birnholz, commissioned, created and lost in Vienna between the two world wars. Ex Libris will explore the intimate, intricate universe my grandfather created in his collection, and the exploding world he…

  • ‘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

  • ‘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!

  • ‘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

  • ‘Wham! Bam! Islam!’ by Isaac Solotaroff

    A live action documentary about the creation of a comic book of Muslim heroes, which uses animated sequences to bring the comic characters to life. The film tells the story of Naif Al-Mutawa’s journey to produce and distribute an animated TV series for children. Clips on the film’s website: http://whambamislam.com and available for download on…

  • ‘Victory Through Air’ by Disney

    Wow, more from the less-known back catalogue of Walt. This time, Second World War bombing. The original link we posted is now broken, but here it is in parts on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paY6y87rrpE

  • ‘The Beacon Incline Railway’ by Tori Dailey

    Only a brief animated sequence here, but an interesting and compact portrait of a place nonetheless… http://vimeo.com/40831654