Grizzly of Teddy. Van een Meester in de kunst voor de Lommelse indieband.

2013 / 03:49 / BE

Annette Jung of "Talking Animals animation studio" has reenacted the beginning to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video in stop-motion LEGO. By using the bricks as pixels. Before she begun to study animation at the University of Film & Television (HFF) Potsdam, she was working as a freelance illustrator and comic-artist. In 2005 she graduated as animator with diploma with her Edgar Allan Poe adaption of „The Tell-Tale Heart“.

2013 / 04:00 / GER

Om met haar suikerzoete Sissi-imago te breken, aanvaardde Romy Scneider in 1964 de hoofdrol in L' Enfer, een gewaagde film over hartstocht en bedrog van de beroemde Franse regisseur Henri-George Clouzot. Al van te voren werd de film, met zi'n psychedelische kleuren en experimentele vormen, als baanbrekend meesterwerk bestempeld. Het verteld het verhaal van de extreem jaloerse Marcel (Serge Reggiani) en zijn knappe vrouw Odette (Romy Scneider). Clouzot koos de titel als verwijzing naar Dante's Inferno en Marcel en Odette referen naar de karakters uit Marcel Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu'. Maar na drie maanden draaien werd het project stilgelegd. De geschoten beelden verdwenen. Pas decennia later, na de dood van Romy Schneider en Henri-Georges Clouzot, werden deze teruggevonden in 185 oude, verstofte filmblikken. Regisseurs Serge Bromberg en Ruxandra Medrea maakten hier een meeslepende documentaire over.

1964 - 2009 / 03:17 / FR

All his life, Bill Plympton has been fascinated by animation. When he was fourteen, he sent Disney some of his cartoons and offered up his services as animator. They wrote back and told him that while his drawings showed promise, he was too young. It wasn't until 1983 that he was approached to animate a film. The Android Sister Valeria Wasilewski asked Plympton to direct and animate a film she was producing of Jules Feiffer's song, "Boomtown." Connie D'Antuono, another of the film's producers, "sort of held my hand through the whole process," Plympton says. "It was a great way to learn to make a film."

Immediately following the completion of "Boomtown," he began his own animated film, "Drawing Lesson # 2." Production of the live action scenes was slow due to inclement weather, so Plympton decided to start on another film. For this one, he contacted Maureen McElheron, an old friend with whom he had performed in a Country Western Band (he played pedal steel guitar), and she agreed to score "Your Face." Due to budgetary considerations, she also sang. Her voice, eerily decelerated to sound more masculine, combined with a fantastically contorting visage helped garner the film a 1988 Oscar nomination for best animated short. "How to Kiss" one of the wackier "How To" films ever made. This short shows all the violent and bizarre pitfalls of "sucking face". One of the most outrageous of Bill's shorts, this film uses his classic colored-pencil technique.

1989 / 06:35 / US

La Huida, or The Runaway. A dog leash. An Australia shaped stain on the wall. A bent traffic light... Each of these elements has its own story, even though all of them together can create a new plot. The short film was written & directed by Spanish filmmaker Víctor Carrey. Victor Carrey has combined his task as a music video director with work in the Advertising and TV industry. The film has been playing at festivals since 2011, receiving 77 awards. victorcarrey.com

2011 / 10:45 / SP

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Smile for London invited London’s budding and established poets to uplift and inspire commuters during the bleakest month of the year with poems or prose of up to 40 words. The pieces are being transformed by leading motion artists including Hexstatic into 20-second-typographic-films, to be screened on the Underground platform screens for two weeks from 16th January 2012.
Words: Ray Davies
Shoot and edit: Robin Hexstatic

2012 / 00:20 / UK

Episode #117: Mike Kelley sets the record straight about being called a "bad boy" throughout his career, describing the shifting tastes of critics and artists towards abject art in recent years.

Mike Kelley's work ranges from highly symbolic and ritualistic performance pieces, to arrangements of stuffed-animal sculptures, to wall-sized drawings, to multi-room installations that restage institutional environments (schools, offices, zoos), to extended collaborations with artists such as Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and the band Sonic Youth. His work questions the legitimacy of 'normative' values and systems of authority, and attacks the sanctity of cultural attitudes toward family, religion, sexuality, art history, and education. He also comments on and undermines the legitimacy of the concept of victim or trauma culture, which posits that almost all behavior results from some form of repressed abuse. Kelley's aesthetic mines the rich and often overlooked history of vernacular art in America, and his practice borrows heavily from the confrontational, politically conscious "by all means necessary" attitude of punk music.

Learn more about Mike Kelley: www.art21.org/artists/mike-kelleyn

2009 / 02:19 / US

What's My Line? is a famous game show which was first broadcast on CBS television in 1950 and ran for 18 seasons. The show featured a panel of 4 celebrities who asked contestants questions to try and find out their 'line' or profession. In this show from 1952 the "mystery celebrity" is Salvador Dali, the surrealist artist.

1952 / 09:22 / US

On July 10th, Jay-Z performed his recent song Picasso Baby for six hours straight at the Pace Gallery in New York City. The purpose of his performance art piece was to find out what would happen if Jay-Z performed specifically to a single person instead of an arena full of fans. Now the footage has been edited down to a nearly 11-minute short film which features appearances by Judd Apatow, Alan Cumming and more.

2013 / 10:45 / US

Miranda July dreams up an idiosyncratic solution to the interruptions of modern life in "A Handy Tip for the Easily Distracted." An offcut from July's latest film, The Future, the scene has been reconstituted by the actress, writer and filmmaker for NOWNESS, complete with a score by David Byrne collaborator Steven Reker. July drew on her performance art piece, “Things We Don't Understand and Are Definitely Not Going to Talk About” for her sophomore feature; it follows 2005's Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won the Caméra d'Or prize at Cannes. The film's plot centers on LA couple Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater), whose decision to adopt the sickly stray cat Paw Paw sees them grapple with the impending responsibility of the pet's care. This being a July vehicle, things take a characteristically kooky turn, with Paw Paw stepping in as narrator, and the couple embarking on a quest to seize the day: Sophie strives to reach her artistic potential by creating a definitive dance number, and Jason hands his future over to fate, following "signs" from the universe. We spoke to the prolific July, who has also exhibited as a performance artist at the Guggenheim and the Whitney Biennale and written for publications including The Paris Review and The New Yorker.

2011 / 02:59 / US

When Mr Bacon died of a heart attack, aged 82, the sole heir of his estimated £11m estate was John Edwards, an East End barman who was his companion for many years. The inheritance included the contents of his chaotic studio, which has now been reconstructed in a gallery in Dublin, the artist's birthplace. But boxes of papers were allegedly given, just four days before his death, to Barry Joule, a Canadian who was his neighbour in London and later a friend. Mr Joule said yesterday that when Mr Bacon gave him the papers, he said: "You know what to do with it", and that this was familiar code for a gift. Part of the Bacon mythology is that his genius poured straight on to the canvas, without any preparatory work. The hundreds of sheets of paper in the archive include hoarded photographs, clippings, pages torn from magazines and books, the medical text book illustrations which fascinated him and scribbled sketches. The photographs include images which recur in his finished work, including the screaming nurse from the Eisenstein film Battleship Potemkin. Album X is an old photograph album given him by his nanny, from which the photos were torn and replaced with heavily worked collages and overdrawn photographs. The authenticity of the archive has been questioned by David Sylvester, a leading expert on Bacon. He concedes that the sheets of paper must have come from Bacon's studio, but doubts that the overpainting and sketches are in the artist's hand. Mr Joule has been accused by other sources of betraying his friend's intentions. It has been suggested both that he tampered with the papers and that if he was indeed given them by Bacon, the intention was that they should be destroyed. Mr Joule said that he has frequently felt crushed by the bitterness of the row. "I think that there's an element of jealousy. I'm not an artist or a scholar - I'm a carpenter, so why the hell should I have this stuff?" he said. "Then there's the gay thing. They claim him as their own and I happen to be a straight man. "But there's no doubt in my mind, he gave them to me to keep, and I kept them. If he'd come back and asked for them back, I'd have given them back. But he didn't come back. He died and I had to decide what to do with them." He added: "I have highs and lows. Exhibitions are a high, so this is a good day."

Director: Susan Doyon

2012 / 02:22 / UK

Brought to life in a stop motion animated YouTube video made by Dean Fleischer-Camp and former "SNL" actress Jenny Slate, who gave him his squeaky, lovable voice, Marcel has been watched nearly 12 million viewers. The national attention earned Slate and Fleischer-Camp a deal for a series of children's books, with the first title slated for release on November 1st, 2011.

2010 / 03:21 / US

Adventure narratives—stories that pit the solitary man against an intractable nature—are recurring themes in Ben-Ner’s work. His second home movie, Moby Dick (2000), again staged in the kitchen, is a retelling of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel about Ishmael, a young man who sets to sea on a whaling ship, whose megalomaniacal, one-legged captain, Ahab, seeks vengeance against a giant white whale that ate his leg. Ben-Ner plays Ishmael, his companion Queequeg and Captain Ahab, while Elia plays both the innkeeper of the Spouter Inn, where Ishmael is recruited for the expedition, and Pip the deck boy. The father-daughter duo enacts various slapstick routines, including one involving the refrigerator doors, which recall Buster Keaton films from the silent era. The kitchen sink and countertop become the deck of the ship, with a wooden mast stuck into the sink and rigging ropes fastened to the watercooler. Ben-Ner rotates the camera rapidly to suggest the rocking of the ship during a storm and uses stop-motion animation to portray white sharks’ fins circling on the green-tiled kitchen floor. Meanwhile, he intersperses this scenario with absurdist vignettes of himself performing stunts in a white-walled studio. In one, he sits on the branch of a small tree, cutting away at it until he falls onto a cardboard box below. Unlike reality television, which purports to put real life on camera while hiding the production crews, Ben-Ner’s films are about the process of transforming and embellishing everyday reality through fiction.

2000/ 12:35 / IL

From Frank Gehry to Louis Khan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Zaha Hadid, this charming primer is an animated, A-to-Z listing of the world’s most recognized architects and their celebrated structures. www.fedelpeye.tv

2013/ 01:37 / CO

A tribute to the founder of Onitsuka, now ASICS, Kihachiro Onitsuka, who created a shoe that mimics the concave shape of the octopus suckers. The story is told using paper folded creations by origami artist was Sipho Mabona. The spot has been directed by Tim Schierwater and produced by Florian Liertz at Element e, the campaign was developed at Nordpol+, Hamburg.

2009 / 04:52 / GER

Samenwerken met grote merken als Nokia, Calvin Klein en nu ook Ford. Dat kunnen er niet veel zeggen, maar de kunstenaar en Nederlander Rafael Roozendaal (33) wel. Roozendaal gebruikt het internet als zijn canvas en zijn werken zijn in feite websites. Via een wedstrijd van het tijdschrift Vice Magazine kwam hij in aanraking met Ford, zijn idee was het beste en werd gebruikt voor de reclame. De auto is tijdens het Incubate Festival te bezichtigen aan de Spoorlaan in Tilburg.

Roozendaal heeft op allerlei plekken op de wereld gewoond, nu is New York zijn thuisbasis. Hij komt uit Amsterdam en haalde zijn diploma aan de kunstacademie in Maastricht. Ter onderdeel van de European Social Innovation Week interviewde Miriam van Ommeren van het digitale tijdschrift De Optimist de kunstenaar over zijn samenwerking met de autofabrikant. Onderzoeker van de Universiteit van Groningen dr. Pascal Gielen noemt Roozendaal een goed voorbeeld van een hybrid-artist. Dat is een kunstenaar die zijn eigen autonome kunst beschikbaar stelt voor commerciële doeleinden.

2013 / 05:19 / NL

“Hi-Fi” by Bante is an über hip motion graphics video that cleverly brings to life vintage album covers from the catalog of jazz record label Blue Note Records. The video was originally created to promote a summer concert series at Siena, Tuscany’s Bellavista Social Pub back in 2009.

2009 / 02:57 / IT

Barter Books is one of the largest second hand and antiquarian bookshops in Britain. It is home to, among other things, a very special poster. This is a short film about the history of the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster.

Though we will probably never know who the graphic artist was who was responsible for for its design, it is to his or her credit that long after the second world war, people everywhere recognise its simple and timeless design and still find reassurance in the very special 'attitude of mind' it conveys.

2009 / 03:00 / UK