Eleven Under-The-Radar Films Competing For Best Animated Short At Oscars 2023
Our fourth look at contenders that have qualified for the 2023 Oscars.
Chris Robinson
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Priit Pärn (Exclusive Video)
This week’s subject is Estonian master Priit Pärn, the animation successor of Jean-Luc Godard, George Grosz, Pop Art, and Monty Python.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Gina Kamentsky
Kamentsky’s camera-less, abstract pieces combine technical innovation with frequently absurd, comical, and saucy storylines.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Michaela Pavlátová
Pavlátová’s films obsessively explore how language, boredom, sex, desire, and death inevitably mess up marriages and relationships.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Elise Simard
Simard’s multi-layered works eschew straightforward narratives and explore overlapping sensations wide open to interpretation.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Julia Ocker
Ocker cleverly explores themes of peer pressure, loneliness, ethics, fear, and anxiety, while celebrating the differences in each of us.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Jonni Phillips
Phillip’s bold, funny, and deeply personal works explore a mélange of characters as they skulk, slide, and scrape their way through life.
Making Bread With Alex Boya: How The Canadian Artist Is Worldbuilding In Reverse With ‘The Mill’
Using Giphy, Boya is baking up an expanded universe called ‘The Mill’ to generate interest in a short film and/or series.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Zaramella’s diverse body of work includes technically adventurous films that use live action, drawings, clay, pixilation, paper puppets, human fingers, and all manner of other objects.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Kangmin Kim
This week’s subject is the L.A.-based Kangmin Kim, whose stop-motion films showcase striking design and innovative storytelling.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Xi Chen
Xi Chen’s cut-out films take a slow dive into personal stories in order to tackle larger societal and cultural issues in China.
What Did Israeli Animators Do For Summer Vacation? They Saved Their Animation Industry
After Israel’s government decided to support only live-action film, the country’s animators banded together and pressured the bureaucrats to change their course.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Emily Pelstring
Pelstring’s animation is akin to watching early 1980s television on a broken down portable tv set while ingesting a small dose of mescaline.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Amanda Forbis And Wendy Tilby
The Canadian duo uses relatable stories and characters to dive into chance encounters, random collisions, and the fragility of existence.
How The Rhode Island School Of Design’s Hands-Off Approach Has Molded Generations Of Filmmakers
Without the RISD, there would be no Superjail!, Avatar: The Last Airbender, or Family Guy.
Styles In Animation: Why Felt Feels Right
Cartoon Brew asked several stop motion experts about their feelings on felt, and what makes it the right material for certain projects.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Andreas Hykade
Hykade’s films combine a distinctive, minimalist design with often deeply personal stories about masculinity, religion, addiction, and love.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Joseph Pierce
Joseph Pierce’s darkly comic and surreal work unearths the often absurd and dark spots in human behavior.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Phil Mulloy
Learn about British filmmaker Phil Mulloy whose bold, grotesque, and minimalist works explore the dark and savage side of human nature.
Lei Lei’s New Feature ‘Silver Bird And Rainbow Fish’ Navigates The Personal Side Of Chinese History
A look at how Lei Lei combined his own ancestry with photos picked up at flea markets to tell a timeless story about family.
