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Battle of the Bands
London-based design and animation team, Dog & Rabbit, present 2D slapstick and anarchy as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones attempt to outdo each other with trickery, silliness, and cake fights across their most iconic album covers. The film collected a number of awards and accolades during its run on the festivals circuit.
Music was created by Ollie DYG, with sound design by Nigel Manington.
Vibrance & Decay
Directing-duo King She collaborates with Cuban-American singer, Cassie Marin, for the first time on the music video ‘Tanto’.
Cassie lives with an autoimmune disorder that impairs her body's ability to eliminate toxins, particularly metals like zinc, copper, and iron. Captivated by Cassie's story, the director’s pitched the idea of a narrative that articulates the journey of a girl who purges heavy metals from her skin.
The film involves an impressive display of creative techniques including thermography, point cloud photogrammetry, key frame scaling, AI generation, and CGI.
Over the Wall
'The Zone of Interest' is the new film by writer and director Jonathan Glazer (Under The Skin, Sexy Beast) and starring Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, and Ralph Herforth. The film is scored by returning collaborator Mica Levi.
The film is about the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, who strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
The film won the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Distributed by A24.
Activate Cruise Control
Using a collection of almost 15,000 international road signs, London-based filmmaker and creative Daniel McKee has animated a mesmeric journey through prohibitions, warnings, and symbols in 'SIGNS'.
Featuring music by Resonate.
Low-Orbit Energy
The year is 2050. Leon Liang imagines a future where solar farms generate gigawatts of clean electricity by orbiting earth. 'Solar Pulse' is the annual car race held on these space stations, celebrating self-sufficiency with techno and aerobatic stunts.
Leon Liang is a self-taught digital animation director and concept artist based in Shanghai interested in the intersection between art and science.
Encountering Genuine Reality
‘Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective’ brings together more than 200 works and large-scale installations from one of Japan's most renowned photographers. Inspired by artists such as Andy Warhol, William Klein and Jack Kerouac, Moriyama revolutionised the way we look at the world with his dense, grainy images.
On show at The Photographers' Gallery in London until February 2024.
In the video to the right on the page, you can find the exhibition curators talking more about Moriyama's work, the breadth of his career, and how the show came together.
