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Rabbit - Run Wrake

Rabbit - Run Wrake

Here’s a really fantastic piece by Run Wrake. Wonderful illustrations, excellent animation, a real treat!

When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, great riches follow, but for how long?

date Tue, 17 Oct 2006 Bookmark comment Comments
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When the Day Breaks, a short film

When The Day Breaks

I just caught a wonderful animated short film on Sundance Channel called When The Day Breaks, directed by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby. Made from pencil and paint on photocopies, the visuals are nothing short of breathtaking, much attention to detail, and quite dreamy. the story is fantastic as well, I enjoyed seeing how two seemingly random lives are so interconnected (as all of our lives potentially are).

“A rooster has his last biscuit for breakfast and goes grocery shopping. A pig prepares her breakfast (potato peelings, with the potatoes thrown in the trash) and discovers she needs more milk. Their paths cross, a lemon falls into the sewer, and both lives are changed.”

Check it out for yourself of Sundance Channel:

Also, here’s the IMDb page for When The Day Breaks.

date Sat, 10 Sep 2005 Bookmark comment Comments
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Mike Mills' Thumbsucker

Still from Thumbsucker

I don’t get too worked up about new films lately as every movie I’ve been to in the past few years has been disappointing. However, I came across a post that redirected me to Mike Mills’ new film Thumbsucker, his feature-film directorial debut. I’ve admired his design work since Air’s Moon Safari art, which he made (as well as their music and tour videos). I’m really excited to see all the details of his design background in the movie as well as the story, which looks quite interesting. And a final note, there’s a cool little interview with him over at Ready Made Magazine.

date Fri, 02 Sep 2005 Bookmark comment Comments [1]
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Canis Interstellarhydroencephalitis

possibly something from Warp Records

⬆ This is a strange video clip sent to me from this freak.

UPDATE:
I just figured out that this is Rubber Johnny by (rock*star) Chris Cunningham.

Johnny is a hyperactive, shape-shifting mutant child, kept locked away in a basement. With only his feverish imagination and his terrified dog for company, he finds ways to amuse himself in the dark. Rubber Johnny is the latest creation from the UK’s most imaginative filmmaker, Chris Cunningham. Featuring music by legendary electronic composer, Aphex Twin, this nightmarish and hallucinatory experimental short film is accompanied by 40 pages of drawings and photographs – Cunningham’s first published book of original artwork.

date Fri, 08 Jul 2005 Bookmark comment Comments
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3rd Brazilian Film Festival of NY (Part 2)

This Saturday, July 9^th^, Nação Zumbi will take the (summer) stage in Central Park.

Afterwards, there will be a screening of Daniel Filho’s A Dona da Historia (The Owner of History).

date Fri, 08 Jul 2005 Bookmark comment Comments
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3rd Brazilian Film Festival of NY (Part 1)

Friday, July 8th marks the beginning of the 3rd Brazilian Film Festival of NY. The festival opens at Central Park Summer Stage with Gabriel O Pensador playing a free show at Rumsey Field (69th-72nd Sts) at 7:00p. Then, at 8:30p, director Sergio Goldenberg’s Maria’s Place (Bendito O Fruto) will be screened (also for free). It sounds like a real good time, check it out!

Gabriel O Pensador
“One of the greatest names in Brazilian rap, Gabriel O Pensador, that is, Gabriel the Thinker, has always been different from most of his peers due to being a white, middle-class kid. Since the beginning of his career, Gabriel distinguished himself for the social criticism in his lyrics. Son of journalist Belisa Ribeiro, Gabriel appeared in 1992 with the song “To feliz, matei o presidente”. At that time he was still studying Journalism at the University in Rio de Janeiro.”

Foto: Zezeh Barbosa, Otávio Augusto, et. al.

Maria’s Place (Bendito O Fruto)
35mm / color / 90 min / 2005 / Romantic Comedy
“An accident involving a flying manhole cover leads to a chance meeting between two childhood friends: a widow and the owner of a beauty parlor. Thus begins an entertaining game of seduction that brings memories and hidden desires to the surface – furtive passions that end up threatening the hairdresser’s de facto marriage.”

date Sun, 03 Jul 2005 Bookmark comment Comments
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