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Caramel custard, ping pong and potty all play an important role in this charming animation by Kunal Sen about a young boy, exploring where he came from as he prepares for the performance of a lifetime

Long time without a post. Here’s a light appetizer, an “experiment into light and colour” by Jack Webster-Dunstan and Sharif Elsabagh. The song is A Meaningful Moment Through A Meaning(less) Process (by Stars of the Lid); as well as the video.

A poor pig escapes from the butcher’s claws just to find himself in horrible surroundings. Fortunately, he’ll find a refuge in a little pet shop… Fortunately? Pig Me is a short film by five students of Animation Workshop: Mette Tange, Israel Hernanadez, Ditte Gade, Marie-Louise Højer Jensen, Rebecca Bang Sørensen. It reminds me of that scene at the beginning of 101 Dalmatians. And it is as good as that!

If you see something big in the sky, don’t panic. It could be just an unidentified flying meal. The spot has been directed by Harald Zwart, previously here with Santa Academy. Production Company: Motion Blur. Director of photography: Geir Hartly Andreassen. Editor: Jens Christian Fodstad. Visual Effects: The Chimney Pot.

Don’t lose your head. You will very likely regret it later… A short film directed and played by Ben Dickinson for Waverly Films. Writers: Christopher Ford (also playing as the head), Jeff Kaplan, Ben Dickinson.

It’s hard to resist temptations. Especially when you see no reason to do so. Not that this has something to do with the video… The Moulettes is a folk band from Brighton, London, comprised of Hannah Miller, Ruth Skipper, Ollie Austin, Roberto Arcari and Georgina Leach. Devil Of Mine is featured on their first album entitled, as you might have guessed, The Moulettes and released on August 2010. The music video has been directed and edited by Thomas Goldser. Director of Photography: Anka Bogacz.

I guess we all have had our share of moments like this in our life, the moment when enough is enough and nobody, nothing’s gonna make you change your mind. Again. Motus et bouche cousue (Sealed Lips) is a short film by three students of the Gobelins school: Adrien Soyty Liv, Grégory Mougne and Coline Veith. Voices: Adrien Beau and Anthony Menard. The the musical tracks are entitled: Picolo Porto and Petits Rats.

We witness the final day of Bommel, a creature that looks like a fuzzy egg and lives with Kristen Bell in Mar Vista, California. Yeasayer was previously here with Wait for the Summer. Madder Red is the third single from their album Odd Blood released on February 2010 for Secretly Canadian. The music video has been produced at Streetgang and directed by Andreas Nilsson, recently here with Röyksopp’s Adventures in Barbieland. Director of photography: Stöps Langensteiner. Editor: Aaron Morris at Rock Paper Scissors. Special effects: Don Lanning and Ryan Thompson.

A bittersweet portrait of a nostalgic man. The Human Projectile is the pilot episode of Circus, a stop motion animated series where the main attractions of a traveling circus get stuck in an unfamiliar place. While their efforts to leave become more and more desperate, they slowly realise that the surroundings are influenced by strange powers. The short film is the work of Hylas Film, that is: Philipp Halfmann, Benjamin Lützow, Michael Amstad, Dominik Mader.

Since space and time are the same, how would it feel spending space with somebody? And zooming in time? I’ll give you the answer next space… For a Minor Reflection is a post-rock band from Reykjavík, Iceland, comprised of Kjartan Holm, Guðfinnur Sveinsson, Elvar Jón Guðmundsson, Andri Freyr Þorgeirsson. A Moll is a song on their second album, entitled “Reistu þig við, sólin er komin á loft…” (which means “Rise and shine, the sun’s up”) and released in 2010. The music video has been directed by Lorenzo Fonda (Cerberoleso), produced by Lanette Phillips and Catherine Berclaz at Mighty8.

Under the gleaming, lifeless sprawl of an alien dystopia, a desperate top-secret experiment is taking place. A machine is built to travel beyond the depths of space and time. It finds a primitive dimension and a planet whose inhabitants seem to have been expecting it. This is the short film version of the music video for the track Kananana by The Emperor Machine (Andy Meecham). The original version can be found here. Written and directed by: Cassiano Prado. Stop Animation: Guilherme Marcondes. Editor: Jordan Crute. Director of photography: Peter Emery. Production Companies: Agile Films and Mixer Brasil. Sound Design: Kieron Teather AKA Wolfson at Element Audio.

A social campaign based on Martin Niemöller’s famous dictum First they came… about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. I don’t think that those times are coming back, but I feel a rising wave of, not just xenophobia, but discrimination against everyone perceived as different. As Twain said, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. The public service announcement has been directed by Florian Malak and produced at Moustache Films. Director of photography: Wojtek Zieliński.

When the forces of conservation and industrialization within a common society compete head to head, the only entity that can regulate the fight is the fantastic measuring contraption known as the Envirometer [...] the only hope to unite the opposing viewpoints and create a progressive world where everyone can live in harmony. A sustainable short film produced at Make LLC. and directed by Danny Robashkin. Illustrations: Aaron Quist and Alec Mueller. Written by: Colin Levy and Danny Robashkin. Animation: Aaron Quist, Andrew Chesworth, Joe Kim, Kevin Wisdom, Tyson Ibele. Sound design: Horner Music.

For the third episode of Bioshock, the saga leaves the underwater city of Rapture and takes you to the air floating city of Columbia. No idea who made this sequence. Feel free to use the comments to provide with any information you may have. Release date is somewhat around 2012.

A guy is running late for his rendezvous, a flower in his hands while trying to avoid the obstacles on his way. A short film by Ghostbot; design, animation and storyboards by Alan Lau, Brad Rau and Roque Ballesteros. Un tizio sta facendo tardi ad un appuntamento, un fiore in mano mentre cerca di evitare gli ostacoli [...]

An audition turns into tongue in cheek comedy, then musical crescendo, then surreal tragedy, fast paced action and finally speculative metaphysics. Quadron is a Danish pop group comprised of Robin Hannibal and Coco. Slippin is on the eponymous debut album released for Plug Research. The music video has been directed by Walter Robot (Bill Barminski and Christopher Louie). Cinematographer: Patrick Meade Jones.