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Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Iulia Voitova

Featuring expressive paper cut-outs and pastels, Voitova’s bite-sized stories are packed with emotional punch.

“Slow Light” employs paper cut-out stop-motion and b&w hand-drawn animation to differentiate between overlapping timelines.

A film behind a horse. Obscuring the narrative. My act of self destruction.

A surreal ode to rebirth and reinvention haunted by the genial spectre of Buster Keaton.

From a seed to war, from meat to love, from indifference to apocalypse. An attempt to capture the world in a nutshell.

Attempting to remove an unresponsive badger from a dark road, a police patrol soon realizes that the animal is not dead but rather dead drunk.

Music video for Flying Lotus’ “Post Requisite.”

Venice, California-based animation and digital media studio JibJab has delivered another winning year-in-review short.

A collection of animation work by Terry Gilliam on the occasion of his 74th birthday.

An MTV Animation studio alum who worked on the television shows Beavis & Butt-head and Daria, Brooklyn-based Willy Hartland is an …

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design students Boaz Balachsan and Dima Tretyakov recorded Israeli children giving their opinions about God …

Kangmin Kim impressed in 2010 with his student short Visit. He has continued to evolve his labor-intensive mixed-media approach with his …

If not for the cutting and pacing of the film, it would be easy to imagine Walerian Borowczyk’s Les Astronautes had been made today–and …

This two-minute Chevrolet spot is a pretty epic bit of advertising, but you may be even more surprised to learn who made it. It’s this …

Eric Power’s music video for Wiretree’s song “The Shore” is a colorful lo-fi piece made with underlit tissue paper and black cardstock.

Wow, here’s something I’d never seen before: Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam discussing his animation techniques on Bob Godfrey’s …

London’s grey landscape has never looked so alluring as in Daniela Negrin Ochoa’s trailer for the upcoming London International Animation …

For my money, cut-out animation is still one of the most charming animation techniques when done well. Take for instance The Red Heels …

Rebellious Bird is a fresh looking watercolor cut-out animation created by Philadelphia-based Jennifer Levonian. The documentary short …

Viliam is Veronika Obertová’s graduation short from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia. The handmade papercraft …

Einar Baldvin created Catatonic as his thesis film for the CalArts Experimental Animation program. The film combines hand-drawn cut-outs …

Colored pencils, cut-outs, and graphite pencil are eloquently blended in Indians. The folk art mixed-media approach does a nice job of …

Minneapolis musician Jeremy Messersmith’s latest song inspired Austin-based animator Eric Power (Waking Life) to recreate the Star Wars …