Hot Diggity: A Simple, Pleasant Short Created with Great Effort
By: Alex Silverman This short was animated, colored, and rendered all in Clip Studio Paint by Director Danielle Pedersen. It is a simple, animated short about a dog trying to steal sausages from a street vendor. What makes this short so impressive aside from its unique art style, is that it was all done by one creator using one program. It is very reminiscent of classic, animated shorts from major animation studios. Above all, a...
In Path of Freedom, Prisoners Learn to Unlock Themselves
By Reilly Wisniewski The 10 minute short film, Path of Freedom, directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, shows us how to make good in a bad situation. In the documentary we follow Fleet Maull of the Prison Mindfulness Institute as he helps inmates learn proper communication and problem solving skills so that they can begin to live a better life and keep themselves from getting into further trouble. In an environment where everyone’s worst...
A Satisfying Rendition of Chopin’s Etude in B Minor, No.10 Op.25
By Reilly Wisniewski In this 3-minute piano performance, a young musician from Bard College Conservatory of Music performs Etude Op.25, No.10 in B minor, a solo piece written by Frédéric Chopin in 1835. Domantas Karalius plays the song effortlessly, creating an energy that builds throughout and rewards the audience with a satisfying and excellent close. Coming down from the rough last 2 years, it brings a smile to my face knowing that...
Grace Goen’s Unseen is Ironically a Must See
By Sean Hendrickson Unseen, directed by Grace Goen, uses its outlandish and horrifying version of disease to successfully mount its character drama with parallels to modern reality, and delivers an ending that will certainly last in your mind. This movie feels like a visual step up in quality to many of its contemporaries, especially considering its use of physical props and sets. The visual motif of physical separation with mirrors...
Mike Schleif’s Space Bears; Making Capitalism Bear-able
By Sean Hendrickson Space Bears the Movie uses its relatively solid animation and music as a foundation for its witty, well written allegories surrounding late stage capitalism and its consequences. King Glopp is the epitome of greed: stealing resources from all over the galaxy and forcing those under him to expand his wealth. Kids (as we all know) have a strong sense of what’s “fair” from a young age, and this film does a great job...
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