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‘Black Slide’ Turns A Terrifying Waterslide Into A Powerful Metaphor For Childhood Grief
The deeply personal short, set in a 1990s water park, draws on Lotan’s own loss, pairing stylized CG with impressive lighting and VFX.
Cartoon Brew Pick
Adventurous, innovative, and thought-provoking animation projects from around the world.
Three Tiny TV Stars Face A Grim Fate In Nina Gantz’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Wander To Wonder,’ Now Online
The BAFTA and Annie-winning dark comedy short follows three TV miniature actors who keep performing after their creator dies and their food runs out.
In ‘Jesus 2,’ ‘Adventure Time’ Vet Jesse Moynihan Imagines The Second Coming As An Existential Horror Story
Our Pick of the Day spotlights Moynihan’s latest short, a neon-soaked, striking meditation on death, faith, and the burden of immortality.
Anime Icon Rintaro Revives A Lost Piece Of Japanese Cinema In ‘Nezumikozō Jirokichi’
Today’s Pick is a playful reconstruction of a vanished 1933 samurai film, blending benshi narration, silent cinema, and modern anime craft.
Two Statues Finally Give In To Seismic Desire in ‘Yearn’
The dialogue-free short transforms crashing marble, religious repression, and geological chaos into an unexpectedly tender romance.
Takashi Ohashi Explores Time And Memory In ‘Wildest Flower’ Music Video
In today’s Cartoon Brew Pick, Ohashi channels chronophotography into a rhythmic, emotionally charged music video about identity and change.
Embracing Multilingualism: ‘The Untranslatable Forest’ Visualizes Words That Resist Translation
An airport transforms into a surreal ecosystem in this poetic Blender-made film exploring language, culture, and meaning through imagery and sound.
‘The Cat & The Composer’: A Famed Publishing Mistake Makes For A Fun Watch In Matteo Bernardini’s Short
Inspired by a 19th-century misprinted novel, Bernardini’s short blends sketchy illustrations and era-appropriate music into a playful, fragmented experience.
The Dear Hunter Drifts Into Animated Sci-Fi With ‘The Glass Desert I – Giants’ Music Video
The prog rock group’s new video blends synth, jazz, and funk influences with expansive worldbuilding and imaginative animation ahead of a March 20 album drop.
Three Bald Brothers Head To Turkey In Nicolas Keppens’ Oscar-Nominated ‘Beautiful Men,’ Online Now
Three brothers embark on an awkward medical journey that blends dry humor, fragile masculinity, and handcrafted animation into a moving viewing experience.
Savva Tsekmes Channels Gene Wilder’s Psychedelic Willy Wonka Boat Ride In Environmental Short ‘Home Again’
Melbourne-based animator Savva Tsekmes channels Gene Wilder’s iconic Willy Wonka boat monologue into a haunting, self-produced environmental short.
So This Is Christmas: Dave Mullins’s Oscar-Winning Anti-War Short ‘War Is Over!’ Is Online Now
Inspired by the music of John and Yoko and created in Unreal Engine, the short tells the story of two opposing soldiers’ unique battlefield connection.
Annecy Winner Shaddy Safadi’s Terrifying New Short ‘Diaboli’ Debuts Online (EXCLUSIVE)
Annecy winner Shaddy Safadi (‘Christo the Civilized Barbarian’) debuts his dark horror short ‘Diaboli,’ a chilling tale of faith, fear, and the Devil’s return.
‘Carne De Dios’: An Animated Descent Into The Sacred And The Profane
Patricio Plaza’s ‘Carne de Dios’ is a haunting animated journey through colonial-era faith, violence, and transformation at the edge of body and spirit.
‘The Well-Oiled Plan’ Takes Aim At Big Oil’s PR Spindustry
Darkly funny and brutally forthright, ‘The Well-Oiled Plan’ skewers the fossil fuel industry’s PR spindustry ahead of COP30.
The Manosphere Hits The Maternity Ward In Celia Bullwinkel’s Wickedly Funny ‘Baby Bro’
In ‘Baby Bro,’ Bullwinkel mixes classic 2D animation with frat-boy rhetoric, exposing misogyny through absurdist, feminist dark humor.
Lee Hardcastle’s Stop-Motion Music Video Sequel ‘Tech Noir 2’ Is A Nostalgic Synthwave Fever Dream
Lee Hardcastle’s clay stop-motion video for Gunship’s ‘Tech Noir 2’ blends retro gaming, stop-motion craft, and synthwave nostalgia into a sensory feast.
A Hong Kong Storm Sparks Questions Of Memory, Identity, And Nature In Existential Short ‘Monsoon Blue’
A surreal Hong Kong monsoon stirs memory and identity in ‘Monsoon Blue,’ a festival-hit animated short now available to stream online.
‘CAGE’ Turns Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Authoritarianism Into A Nightmarish Ritual
In Nikita Kibirev’s one-minute short ‘CAGE,’ the U.S.-born Russian immigrant uses surreal horror to explore the fear and cycles of American authoritarian power.
‘Sometimes, The Most Authentic Result Comes From Doing It The Traditional Way’: Luca Cioci’s Practical Magic In ‘Metrophusis’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Discover how Luca Cioci mixed stop-motion, light painting, and practical effects to turn a mundane gas station visit into a hypnotic visual short.