The Ice Book is a miniature theatre show made of paper and light. An exquisite experience of fragile paper cutouts and video projections that sweep you right into the heart of a fantasy world. It is an intimate and immersive experience of animation, book art and performance. For more information on the making of and the artists please visit: theicebook.com

The music video for Imitation of Life by R.E.M. is a 20-odd second locked off shot, which they repeat forwards and backwards for the duration of the song.

Imitation of Life – R.E.M. Deconstructed, reconstructed and stabilised.

Colorscope is a series on CNN that explores our perception of color and its use across cultures, one shade at a time. Inspired by our love for The Purple One we chose the last color on the spectrum, a marriage of opposites, a mixture between the hottest color and the coldest.

If you’d like to check out more you can visit CNN Colorscope

Trying to describe this short film by artist Daniel Crooks (previously) is a bit challenging, but once you start watching you’ll get the idea. Crooks filmed narrow passages, alleys, and other nooks and crannies that he stitched together into this seemingly infinite corridor. Make sure to turn up the volume or put on some headphones, Byron Scullin‘s sound design adds an entirely different dimension. The piece was originally commissioned by Silvia and Michael Kantor for the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

“Castle on the Hill” was accompanied by a lyric video upon its release. As of 26 May 2017, the lyric video on YouTube has amassed over 250 million views.

A ‘chocolate’ mixture of his vision of POP.

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Amazing Hand Shadow Performance showing kolkata’s people, skylines, architecture, love for sports, kolkata’s heritage and food.
Shadowgraphy or ombromanie is the art of performing a story or show using images made by hand shadows. It can be called “cinema in silhouette”. Performers are titled as a shadowgraphist or shadowgrapher.

Kaplanovna Inc.

Father and Daughter is a  Dutch animated short film, made by Michaël Dudok de Wit. He won an Oscar and a BAFTA Award for Best Animated Short Film (2001)
A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide Dutch landscapes live through their seasons so the girl lives through hers. She becomes a young woman, has a family and in time she becomes old, yet within her there is always a deep longing for her father. At the end of the film, in what appears to be a dream sequence, or perhaps the afterlife, they are reunited.

2Doc: Het verlangen van Michael Dudok de Wit

Silent, black and white projection, based on a photograph in a book that marks the transition from ordinary life to superstardom of Elvis Presley, then aged 21.
In this animation (3D), the reconstructed head and body of Elvis have been textured using fragments of hundreds of original photographs of Elvis’ skin and features, allowing the camera to come in a close-up of one of the worlds most charismatic figures.

David Claerbout

Lumino City is a wonderful puzzle adventure crafted entirely by hand out of paper, card, miniature lights, and motors, for iOS, PC, Mac and Apple TV.

Made by a small indie team in London over the course of three years, and released on PC and Mac in late 2014, Lumino City has garnered numerous awards including the BAFTA for Artistic Achievement in 2015.

From Paper to Play: How they made Lumino City – Teaser
Lumino City

as·phyx·i·a is a collaborative effort and experimental film created by Maria Takeuchi with Frederico Phillips and performed by Shiho Tanaka. The project is an effort to explore new ways to use and/or combine technologies and different fields in an experiment without many of the common commercial limitations.

as.phyx.i.a behind the scenes

‘How to eat your Apple’ surrealistically portrays human nature and its essence in the circle of life, its change and death as shown by re-compositing various symbols and objects.

Erick Oh

A Newly Remastered full HD version of one of PES’s best commercials, Sneaux ‘Human Skateboard’ (from 2007).

PES

Daniel Crooks is an artist practising across a range of media including video, photography and installation. This video installation showing a man doing Tai Chi was exhibited at the 17th Biennale of Sydney on Cockatoo Island.

Interview with Daniel Crooks