Join a 1920s paleontology expedition to the Gobi Desert with Roy Chapman Andrews, then visit modern-day museum collections with paleontologist Mike Novacek to discover how these finds are studied today.
This 360 video is part of Shelf Life’s second season, exploring fantastic stories from far-away places where some of the American Museum of Natural History’s 33 million specimens and artifacts were discovered. The series links those collection items and epic adventures of the past with current scientific inquiry. Visit our series website for more info:
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For this film, our producers unearthed, scanned, and transferred thousands of archival elements to build a virtual Gobi Desert, layering material into a 360 canvas. Those black and white images were integrated with matte painting, 360 environment creation, and live-action shoots to produce a captivating look at one of the most important expeditions in the Museum’s history.
Wacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls, boiling stew and a bang.
Film by Amanda Bonaiuto
Made at CalArts 2016
Official selections:
2017 //
Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK
GLAS, Berkeley, CA
Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands
International Motion Festival, Cyprus
SENE Film, Music and Arts Festival
Skylab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Slamdance, Park City, Utah
South London Shorts, London
Stuttgart, Germany
Tricky Women, Vienna, Austria
Washington DC Independent Film Festival
2016 //
Ottawa International Animation Festival – Ottawa, Canada
LINOLEUM 2016 International Festival of Contemporary Animation & Media-Art – Kiev, Ukraine
Festival International du Film d’Animation de Paris – Paris, France
Miami Independent Film Festival – Miami, FL
The Vermont Animated Film Festival, VT
PRIMANIMA – Budaörs, Hungary
Boston Short Film Festival
Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival
World Independent Film Awards, Warsaw, Poland
Etiuda & Anima, Krakow, Poland
London International Animation Festival, UK
Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia
CalArts Experimental Animation Showcase – REDCAT
Awards:
PRIMANIMA – Budaörs, Hungary – *Best student film*
Boston Short Film Festival – *Best Animated Short Film*
In times like these, in which man dominates nature so heavily, untouchedness, wilderness and loneliness are more and more rare. Thus the true values of freeriding also vanish. In times like these, real adventures threaten to be replaced by virtual experiences in front of computer- and TV-displays. But they still exist – the magical places. Winter landscapes of such extraordinary beauty and seclusion, which seemed to be lost. Places that show us what we have lost in the presence of civilization and consumption. A place with this extraordinary charm is the village of Bakhmaro in Georgia. Well hidden at 2,000 meters altitude in the small Caucasus. A village, which due to its inaccessibility rests every year in the deepest winter sleep. Due to a 15 kilometer long pass road and the lack of heavy machinery and snowblowers, this road can not be cleared of snow from October to May. And that in the midst of a region blessed by snowfalls of incredible proportions.
A treeskiing dream and powder therapy at the same time for every real freeride addict. Backcountry-skiing without any competitors. Lonely lines and runs, which you can enjoy stress-free and which are snowed nearly daily by new snowfalls. Basis for this experience are the following things: a pistenbully or motors sleds with which climbing the pass road is possible, a rustic wooden hut, which can be inhabited in the seclusion of the village, a few tons of wood, to keep fires in the cast-iron stoves in the house burning, the help of local people, with which you get food, water and diesel from the valley to the remote mountain village and a big portion of adventure spirit. If you cross the gate to this winter paradise in the Lesser Caucasus, you return to originality, simplicity, freedom and true beauty. Our plan was to stay one week, finally it ended in four weeks. Thank you Bakhmaro. You have awakened us and reduced us to the roots of Freeride. Sleep on now.
Many thanks for the great music to „Moderat“ from Berlin and their song „Intruder“
An astronaut through a black hole reaches an unknown planet. He comes in contact with an entity that is going to change him forever.
A parable of life where birth, discovery, experience, contact and awareness are the chapters of this film.
Written and directed by Rocco Pezzella
A HelloSavants Production
2017 Amsterdam
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A new film by Daniel Savage commissioned by Al Jazeera on the philosopher Marshall McLuhan.
Narrated by Alex Chow, a social activist in Hong Kong and prominent figure in the Umbrella Movement.
Directed and animated by Daniel Savage
Produced by The Listening Post
Narrated by Alex Chow
Music by Flako
McLuhan recordings courtesy of marshallmcluhanspeaks.com
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A new kind of organism has been born. It is not made up of flesh and blood, but of circuits and wires. Witness the life of this organism unfold as it grows and thrives, until it must inevitably conclude.
A short animation created by 3rd year animation students at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in a 5 month time period.
A film by:
Fokke Mars (fokkemars@gmail.com)
Bas Jansen (bas.jansen@hotmail.nl)
Max van der Ree (maxvdree@hotmail.com)
Music by:
Nathan van Boeckel
Festivals:
KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2016
Sommets du cinéma d’animation – Festival international de Montréal et de Québec 2016
Euroshorts Short Film Festival 2016
Anilogue International Animation Festival 2016
MONSTRA | Lisbon Animated Film Festival 2017
Anim!Arte – International student animation festival of Brazil 2017
Shortcutz Network | International Shortfilms Movement 2017
Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen 2017
Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) 2017
Vogelpop Film Festival 2017
Open World Animation Festival 2017
The International Animation Film Festival (IAFF) Golden Kuker- Sofia 2017
A young man’s encounter with a motorcycle-riding caretaker launches him on a hallucinatory, spiritual journey through the backlands of America.
Winner – Grand Jury Prize, 2016 Nashville Film Festival
Written, Produced, and Directed by HUGHES WILLIAM THOMPSON / http://ift.tt/VeCaTe
Starring KEVIN WAYNE, CALVIN BROWN, HAYLEY LOVITT, and LOUIE MOSS
Produced by CAMERON BOLING, DAVID SWINBURNE, and NATE HURTSELLERS
Casting by JEN INGULLI, CSA
Cinematography by NATE HURTSELLERS
Edited by EMA RYAN YAMAZAKI
Production Design by AIMEE HOLMBERG
Costume Design by KAREN FREED
Audio Post Production by ONE THOUSAND BIRDS
Visual Effects by AFTERPARTY VFX