Pimps and Prostitutes, the Terminal Bar revisited

21 Jun 2010

Stefan Nadelman left us hanging back in 2002. His 23 minute short film Terminal Bar (3 min excerpt) which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and picked up awards at many other international festivals ended with a “To Be Continued.”
I had the distinct pleasure of programming the world premiere of Terminal Bar at RESFEST, […]

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Making Waves - Julia Pott

18 May 2010

Video interview shot by Patrick Yonally, edited by Nina Liwag
Making Waves is series of artist interviews about Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, a collaboration between The Decemberists and four filmmakers, Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria — each of whom have created an animation to accompany a section […]

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Pixels Attack

9 Apr 2010

Pixels is a fun new short by Patrick Jean produced by One More Production out of Paris. Similar ideas have been done before but this still has a fresh approach.
via Ruben

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Celebrate the Season

11 Dec 2009

Flux commissioned one of our favorite artists (and one of this year’s Flux Super 8), Miwa Matreyek to make a series of 6 animations to run through the holidays on Cooper Design Space’s video wall in Downtown Los Angeles. The music score is by Miwa’s Cloud Eye Control collaborator Anna Oxygen The animations run […]

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See No Evil, London

4 Aug 2009

[ 6 Aug 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ]

The brilliant animator Simon Robson is the latest guest speaker at the See No Evil series. His powerful short “What Barry Says,” a reaction to the US invasion of Iraq, was a highlight of RESFEST 2004. Simon is now at work on ‘Coalition of The Willing’ with philosopher and writer Tim Rayner. The project will […]

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Forget the Film, Watch the Titles

31 May 2009

Title Designers Garson Yu, Kyle Cooper, Jamie Caliri, Karin Fong and Danny Yount getting their favorite superhero poses on
Macro shots, concrete poetry, good music, an interesting life story and innovation. These are some of the essential ingredients to a good opening title sequence for a film. At last Wednesday’s Flux Screening at the Hammer Museum, […]

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Remembering the Year of the Rat

27 Jan 2009

Happy New Year! Here’s the year end picks for the Year of the Rat…onto the Ox!
Best use of store window stuffed animals:

Bergdorf Goodman. Bergdorf’s windows are typically stunning, made better with taxidermy.
Nice to discover, especially after finding out that Paris’s Deyrolle (the wunderkammer of fine and fantastic creatures) had a fire in February.
Best functional […]

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Pes shares stop-motion setup

8 Dec 2008

This morning on his Facebook page, celebrated animator PES shared tips for those looking for gear to make stop-motion movies.

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The Incredible Gideon Baws will be missed

12 Oct 2008

This morning, just before boarding a flight back to LA, a friend called to share the saddest of news. Gideon Baws the talented English director/animator/designer/lllustrator died. He was only 33.

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Who Is Guilherme Marcondes

1 Oct 2008

Guilherme Marcondes with a full head of hair

Name: Guilherme Marcondes
Created on: 1977-August-6
Record last updated on: 2008-October-1
Homepage: guilherme.tv
Domain: Filmmaking, Animation, Mixed-media
Location: New York, NY

Brazilian-born filmmaker, Guilherme Marcondes has directed spots for Diesel, MTV International, and Nickelodeon while simultaneously busting out tongue-in-cheek animations and experimental personal projects. Recently, his interpretation of a William […]

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