In 1893, Edvard Munch created The Scream, one of the world’s most recognized paintings. Now, Romanian animator Sebastian Cosor offers a new take on that emblematic work of art, combining Cosor’s visuals with words by Munch and music by Pink Floyd. H/T Kuriositas
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This 1950s cartoon shows how the middle-income consumer became the ‘dominant economic personality’ of the mid-century United States. H/T Instapundit
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There are visual fireworks aplenty in this animated retelling of a traditional Korean folktale. The story revolves around a dutiful daughter, Sim Chung, who throws herself into the sea, hoping to bring her blind father riches and improved health. Instead, she’s the one embarking on a grand adventure among the most colorful sea creatures, forming a spirited Gershwin chorus in this short by M9. H/T Kuriositas
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Thin Foot, a young boy living on the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad & Tobago, imagines himself as a superhero in the making. His alter-ego is Captain T & T, a crime-fighter destined to right the wrongs in the world. Perhaps Thin Foot’s fantasies and ambitions are a tad unrealistic, but this dreamer deserves credit for his unflagging optimism. He never throws in the towel even in the face of defeat. This short, an imaginative mix of live-action and animation, is the work of a husband and wife team, Christopher and Leizelle Guinness. H/T Kuriositas
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It’s said that men are from Mars and women from Venus. This animated short offers a riff on that notion, introducing the different daydreams motivating a man and a woman on a first date. The question: Is there some common ground where the twain can meet? The short comes from The Animation School in South Africa, where several students collaborated in making it, including Armand Filmalter, Theresa Hargitai, Alexandre Salomon, Simon Van Der Merwe, Stephen Van Wyk and Michelle White. H/T Kuriositas
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A superhero’s Internet date doesn’t go as planned, as he has a hard time getting Lucy to appreciate his special powers. Leigh Way posted this animated short on AniBoom.
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A samurai summons his meditative powers before drawing a sword and honing his reflexes by bringing the cold steel quickly to bear against a single leaf floating to the ground. Much as the samurai finds the many minute veins in the leaf, animator Said Ibrahim showcases a wide array of drawing styles in this graduation short he created as a student at Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. H/T Kuriositas
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The customers in a barber shop get closer-than-expected razor shaves after two women pass by the sloop overhead, flashing their legs and causing an uproar among the leering barbers and men downstairs. This was actually a staged film, shot in Thomas A. Edison’s Black Maria Studios, most likely in late 1897. Edison historian C. Musser has identified William Heise as the director of the film, preserved in the collection of the Library of Congress. Its full title: What Demoralized the Barber Shop.
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Jeff Fowler co-wrote and directed this animated comedy about a hapless rodent who hatches a clever scam to procure some fresh produce, but other, more fleet-of-foot animals, including squirrels, crows and chickens, keep making off with his ill-gotten booty. Fowler and co-writer Tim Miller garnered an Oscar nomination with the 2004 short.
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Minkyu Lee’s Oscar-nominated short represents a fusion of two distinct ideas — the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, and a National Geographic article that Lee had read about how dogs evolved from wolves and came to befriend mankind. Explaining the, ahem, genesis of the piece, Lee told one interviewer, “At that time, I was in the film directing program at Cal Arts. During a writing workshop, while doing some writing exercises, that article came to mind. It made me think about the origin of dogs and because of my faith, I immediately thought of the story of Genesis.”
All told, it took Minyu almost three years to complete Adam and Dog, as he was simultaneously employed by Disney. He could only pursue this personal project on nights and weekends, while spending his weekdays as an animator on Winnie the Pooh and character designer on Wreck-It Ralph.
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