Mark Zamlinsky’s animated short, inspired by Stephen Vincent Benét’s poetry, about a North Georgian casino run by the devil, captures the ‘loneliness and ennui of being in a car, driving north on GA 400, escaping into fantasy.’
The Oscar-qualified short combines 2D animation with contemporary artistry to adapt a poem about the true-life experiences of poet and World War II veteran Edward Field.
Premiering today on Netflix, Timothy Ware-Hill and Arnon Manor’s powerful new spoken-word animated short harkens back to simpler days when hands up was for blocking shots on the court, not in the streets.
Short film adaptation of the poem ‘Monsters’ by Dorothea Lasky employs highly technical workflow to convert 3D VFX elements to 2D animation.
In the first of a weekly focus on contemporary independent animation, Chris Robinson puts the spotlight on a powerful sand animation short from South Africa that depicts everyday neighbourhood violence through the eyes of a young girl.
