An excerpt from Yann Arthus-Bertrand movie HUMAN.
Location: Chengdu, China
The Iron Giant by Brad Bird
“Iron Giant” is based upon the 1968 story,’Iron Man,’ by the British poet laureate Ted Hughes. The film is about a giant metal machine that drops from the sky and frightens a small town in Maine in 1958, only to find a friend named, Hogarth, that ultimately finds its humanity and saving the towns people of their fears and prejudices.
Brad Bird: director of ‘The Incredibles 1 and 2’.
Ready Player One by Steven Spielberg
From filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes the action adventure “Ready Player One,” based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name, which has become a worldwide phenomenon.
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger (2018).
A Million Times at Changi by Humans
Installed in the departure hall of Terminal 2 at Changi Airport in Singapore, “A Million Times” is a minimalist and mesmerizing 2,200-pound kinetic sculpture created by Stockholm artist collective Humans since 1982.
From Humans Since 1982: “Each of the 1008 clock-hands (504-minute hands and 504-hour hands) are fitted with individual motors, giving the sculpture the ability to show various patterns, as well as the time and greetings in various languages across different times of the day.
“Metaphorically speaking, we liberated the clock from its sole function of measuring and reporting the time by taking the clock hands out of their ‘administrative’ roles and turning them into dancers.”
Hendrick’s Gin “Escape” by Tulips & Chimneys
The intricate, illustrative style perfected by the Tulips and Chimneys studio in Cape Town, South Africa proves a perfect match for Hendrick’s Gin’s eccentric branding.
Director Ree Treweek: “We have long been admirers of the Hendrick’s Gin aesthetic. Its Victoriana surrealism is so aligned with our style that you can imagine our delight when we were approached by agency Quaker City Mercantile to create an animated spot.”
Robots by Blue Sky Studios
Fasten your seat bolts and gear up for a hilarious, heartwarming comedy that’s “fun for the whole family” (Clay Smith, Access Hollywood). With the help of his misfit mechanical friends, a small-town robot named Rodney embarks on the adventure of a lifetime as he heads for the big city to pursue his dreams – and ultimately proves that anyone can shine no matter what they’re made of. Featuring an all-star voice cast and a groundbreaking visual style that pushes the boundaries of animated filmmaking, Robots is a dazzling, fun-filled feast for the eyes and a riveting good time for all ages! (2005)
Clinamen by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Crockery drifts across the surface of “clinamen”, and when gentle currents get these white porcelain bowls clinking, French artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot creates a changing, chiming soundscape.
Boogie Nights by opening scene by Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson is a modern master of filmmaking, and his sophomore effort Boogie Nights features one of the best opening shots of the ’90s. Smashing in with infectious disco music and a marquee of the film’s title, the sequence introduces Boogie Nights’ core cast in one three-minute shot.
Dunkirk Reel by Compost Creative
A selection of shots from the C4 documentary which was directed by John Hayes Fisher. We created some highly detailed frozen moments so the viewer could explore moments of the evacuation that were never captured on film. For some of these we were required to transition from existing photographs – always a fun challenge!
Visual ASMR by Wryfield Lab
Citigold ‘Adelle’ by Psyop
Director Joe Ball and the Psyop LA crew combine streamlined design, an upscale palette, and clever light-driven transitions to put a human face on the wealth management services available thru Citibank’s Citigold product.
Pixel by Adrien M & Claire B
Pixel is an innovative dance performance conceived by French performance artists Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne, known collectively as the Adrien M / Claire B Company, in collaboration with hip-hop choreographer Cie Kafig. The hour-long performance incorporates a host of digital projection mapping techniques, 11 dancers, and bills itself as “a work on illusion combining energy and poetry, fiction and technical achievement, hip hop and circus.”
Cycle by Kouhei Nakama
Cycle is a animation from art director Kouhei Nakama that uses a wide range of physics-based particle animations to explore the human form.
Bambi on the ice by Walt Disney
Bambi is a 1942 American animated film directed by David Hand (supervising a team of sequence directors), produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten. The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13, 1942, and is the fifth Disney animated feature film.
Manic/Love by Jordan Wolfson
This metallic sculpture resembles a clichéd portrait of an urchin, complete with ragged clothes and freckled cheeks. Its cartoonish features are warped by an aggressive grimace that simultaneously exposes the character’s distress and malice. To convey an additional layer of anguish, Wolfson has given his creation motion-sensitive eyes that track and lock onto its audience.