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2013 Movie Trailer Mashup

Why deconstructing a mashup? Because these videos are often perceived as a random mess of pretty images from movie trailers. While that’s absolutely true, there’s an opportunity to explore themes and also pay a few obscure tributes to elements that don’t belong in the video itself but that are generally widespread within pop culture. Sometimes, a collection of random but visually stunning sequences can unite to create its own experience. 6 minutes and 46 seconds… Like Pokemon, let’s see if you were able to catch them all!

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The Village, full movie

The population of a small, isolated countryside village believe that their alliance with the mysterious creatures that inhabit the forest around them is coming to an end.

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Cast with Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Brendan Gleeson, Cherry Jones, Celia Weston.

Unleashed: Menswear Dog

When David Fung and wife Yena Kim decided on a whim to create a Tumblr featuring their adorable shiba inu dog, Bodhi, dressed in sophisticated menswear, little did they know that they would soon be leaving their full time jobs to author a book and start a canine fashion line. 

Producer: Catherine Yrisarri
Director of Photography, Editor: Rob Finch
Executive Producer: Greg Moyer
Motion Graphics: Drew Jordan
Assistant Camera: Tim Trotman
Sound Mix: Chip Sloan
Still Photography: Menswear Dog

Created by Blue Chalk Media

Random Acts - The Event

On the fifth day we sailed our frozen island out into the shipping lanes. We counted all the evil things and cast them in an ice-hole. They were only numbers.
On the fourth day we opened high-yield savings accounts. The refugee camps were fast becoming commuter towns encircling the crater. Jets of steam were seen from the tor.
On the third day we left our cars in short stay.The air was pine-fresh. Pebbles nuzzled at our shoes. We began to doubt the alignment of the trackway.
On the second day we shopped. You carried your foot like a dead weight. Some youths got on TV pretending to be trainee customer service assistants.
On the first day the fridge defrosted itself.  Wearing Halloween masks we made love and you said something really evil about a mutual friend.
On the day before the first day we fell into geometry like children. The sky was a chemical peel. We slept alone and restlessly through the shipping news.


Hand drawn pencil animation motion tracked to live action footage shot in Montauk. 

Commissioned as part of Channel 4's Random Acts strand which showcases diverse short films chosen for their bold expressions of creativity.

Directed by Julia Pott
Poem by Tom Chivers
Conceived and Produced by:
Underwater Gardening
Carrie Thomas
Animation Production:
Hornet Inc.
Executive Producer: Michael Feder
Producer: Zack Kortright
Director of Photography: Adam Wissing
Additional Compositor: Tom Brown
Animation Assistant: Sophie Gate
Editor: RJ Glass
Sound Design: Joseph Tate
Re-recording mixer: Maiken Hansen
Male Voice: Alex Britton
Female Voice: Laura Free

A Sundance 2013 short film.

Devendra Banhart: Mondo Taurobolium

Animator Galen Pehrson Takes the Folk Star on a Psychotropic Trip Into the Dark Heart of Hollywood

Avant-folk singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart builds upon his stellar collection of video collaborations with a subversive and moody new piece from rising animator and director Galen Pehrson. Conceived in the tradition of Mondo—the 1960s sub-genre associated with exploitation, death and taboo—Mondo Taurobolium uses the eponymous track “Taurobolium” from Banhart’s latest album Mala as a backdrop. The experimental narrative takes dark and existential turns into the murky underbelly of Hollywood fame and finds the duck-like character Mondo at its center, reeling in a state of disillusionment following a wave of torrential success. Mondo’s counterpart is Gale, voiced by cult favorite Rose McGowan as the beaked female lead who accompanies him through back alleys and night crawls of Los Angeles. “I think it’s easier to trust an animal without scrutinizing its actions,” says Pehrson, who has collaborated with Banhart on the cover of his album Cripple Crow and the video to “I Feel Just Like a Child,” and has recently shot a series of enviable commissions from MOCA, Death Grips, James Franco and Talib Kweli. “I think it’s something we learn while watching cartoons when we’re young. There’s often a moral undertone to them—here, it’s same idea just with more mature and complex topics.” 

Hand-drawn 2D animation is something of a dying art. What inspires you to stay the course?
Galen Pehrson: I enjoy drawing and making little worlds. The passion comes from the feeling of seeing a character come to life, or clouds blowing over a landscape. It’s not a passion reserved for animation but for sharing, creating and collaborating.

Is the process quite drawn out and isolating?
GP: I spend months alone. This piece took four months. I counted something like 2,140 hours. The one day I took off, I ran my car over a boulder. 

What animation directors have inspired you lately? 
GP: I recently discovered Sally Cruikshank—a cab driver turned me on to her work and my mind was blown. I feel like we might be kindred spirits.

What themes do you find yourself exploring over and over again?
GP: I think the biggest theme is nighttime. I work through the night, and there’s a different feeling in the air: a kind of stillness and clarity that I’m grasping at and trying to relay.

The Monuments Men

George Clooney by Yayoi Kusama for W Magazine

Vivienne Westwood Loves

Vivienne Westwood Loves is a celebration of quality and craftsmanship - bringing together British heritage brands that share a passion for traditional production techniques and the preservation of skills already passed down through many generations. Each brand was approached as they epitomise Vivienne's 'Quality over Quantity' and 'Buy less, choose well, make it last' ethos.

The five brands we have chosen to work with are Globe-Trotter, Gloverall, Johnstons of Elgin, Lock & Co. and Pantherella. Using the design heritage and know-how of each brand, we have produced a range of styles which marry Vivienne Westwood's singular vision with the quality and craftsmanship which only decades and in some cases centuries of history can bring to a product.

BWGH for PUMA - BLUEFIELD

Directors - Julien Soulier & Adrien Landre
Creative Direction - David Obadia
A project supported by David Obadia & Nelson Hassan
Producer - Robin Accard // Partizan
Director of Photography - Sophian Belgarbi
First Assistant Camera - Martin Neumann
Second Assistant Camera - Laurene Le Barth
Assistant Directors - Marie Gabrielle Fabre
Steadycam Operator - Remi Quilichini
Chief Electrician - Elyan Charvet
Cast - Maxime Anselin // Rockmen Agency
Daniel Ralph Mfaya
Artist - Leonardo Godoy Muhsam
Sound Design - Schmooze
Post Production - Royal Post
Music - "Break Well" by Mount Kimbie
Courtesy of Warp Records
Special Thanks to:
Yassine Saidi
Khalid Tahhar
Yvane Jacob
Joana Haddad

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