Netherlands, Animation, 2005, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:14
Although Ryan and Sverre operate from opposite sides of the globe - Amsterdam and Adelaide - they continue to collaborate on shorts and music videos. Both artists love to experiment with different styles of animation and they cherish the art of storytelling. 'Wake Up and Close Your Eyes' - an animation made with paper cutouts, animated digital photos and re-usable adhesives - comes with a message. See what happens when all things beautiful and pristine in the forest are commodified.... more info
USA, Video Art / Film Art, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:21
Laptops & Martini's starts with an evil monster pounding the floor with its hoofs in an attempt to awake the evil side of a little Cyclops. Once under the monster's spell the Cyclops, with the help of a machine gun that turns everything it hits into a copy of himself, sets foot to multiply and destroy the world. Under the vigilance of the disgruntled monster, not yet satisfied by having created an army of evil followers, chaos erupts before the master's ultimate desire reveals itself. Music by Otto Von Schirach.... more info
Italy, Art / Artist, 2005, other video, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 10:50:00
The storytelling [in Futuristic Toys] aims to be a reprise of a certain futuristic representation, a grotesque tale of the lack of psychology in this type of dramatic scenes, and which would spark a sense of loss and amazement in the viewer, still remaining in a dreamlike vision. On the other side it is an expressionist "drama" which contextualize the human being ruled by the "mechanicity" built by himself and it wants to awake his asleep conscience. The drama,actually pretty ironic,actually, touches also issues raised by classic Italian literature as "La Divina Commedia" and "I Promessi Sposi" ,making them extremely synthetics - as Futurist theater was. The film can be considered in a ... more info
USA, Animation, 2006, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:15
SubmarineChannel and Fons Schiedon go way back. Did you know that he's responsible for the current design of SubmarineChannel.com? Fons' characters often specialize in deviant behavior, causing chaos and mayhem everywhere they go. But it's those dysfunctional qualities that make his characters so popular and fun to watch. This series of five MTV/Motorola mobile phone idents, originally made with a Southeast Asian audience in mind, are now conquering the rest of the world.... more info
France, Music, 2004, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:49
One of SubmarineChannel's most popular projects is 'Pause', an online collection of innovative music videos. This great promo by Gabriel Malaprade for the French band Eurostar is based on a simple postproduction trick that involves controlled fast-forward and reversal of the film. In ten different scenes, the effect is that the movements and gestures of the actors are transformed into quirky, offbeat choreographies. This music video's got all the right ingredients: a strong concept, a talented director, great styling, and a good song.... more info
USA, Animation, 2005, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:50
Marina Zurkow is a groundbreaking multidisciplinary artist with a strong interest in creating experimental narratives. Her work features fantastic, hybrid characters like the mutant-cute Braingirl and Bag Boy from the award-winning episodic animation 'Braingirl' - one of the longest running series on SubmarineChannel. In the 'The Space Invaders', Zurkow combines live action footage rendered in grainy black and white with her signature 2-D character animation to explore the notion of fears as an externalized emotion.... more info
France, Animation, 2006, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:28
Doudouboy's 3-D animations evoke a wonderful, enchanting world saturated with sparkling Kodachrome-like colors, with a captivating, dreamy soundscape to match. Doudouboy takes us back to when we were kids, to a time when a toy magic lantern could trigger our imagination, and for a moment we would be caught up in a fabulous fantasy world. Doudouboy is an animator and illustrator based in Marseille, France. He works on music promos and ad campaigns. 'Magic Lantern Deluxe' is his personal project for which he composed his own musical score. ... more info
USA, Animation, 2006, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:48
'Naked' is a contemporary six-part documentary series, produced by Submarine, completely animated using the Rotoscope technique. With rotoscoping, live action footage is traced by animators. Not the most common approach for a non-fiction production, but in this case it's very appropriate, considering the series' subject. In 'Naked', children from the age of 10 to 13 talk openly and frankly about their personal experiences in dealing with the changes that are going on in their bodies as they enter puberty.... more info
USA, Animation, 2006, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:19
This is Mumbleboy's one-minute remix of his old-school flash animation series, 'The Boy', which was commissioned by SubmarineChannel in 2003. Mumbleboy's work has developed quite a bit since he first started experimenting with Flash animation. His style is more raw, dense and layered now, yet still maintains that otherworldly, surreal quality. Now, Mumbleboy makes art, does music videos and designs stuffed animals. His live performances are a treat for the eyes as well as the ears, so if you ever have chance to catch one, don't miss it.... more info
Italy, Animation, 2005, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:24
Lorenzo Fonda is a young Italian director with a background in illustraion and a passion for skateboarding. Much like Mike Mills and Spike Jonze a generation before him, skating was one of the most important formative influences in the shaping of his ideas about life and art. In this particular little gem titled '2 in 2' Fonda unlocks the creative potential of piano hammers in order to create a sweet, animated love story with an inevitable musical undertone. ... more info
Netherlands, Music, 2006, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:06:09
A music promo for 3-1, the Amsterdam-based electro-punk-pop act. 310K is basically 3-1's visual equivalent but with several overlapping members. It's a collective of artists, musicians, designers and VJ's. As 310K, they've been building a solid reputation based on their energetic audiovisual live performances and the original collage videos they made for 3-1. The poppy, lo-fi, cut-and-paste images contrast ever so nicely with 3-1's dark and moody tune. ... more info
USA, Animation, 2005, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:30
At its very best, a title sequence is a self-contained hybrid in which multiple media are combined to represent the essence of the film it precedes in an original way. At SubmarineChannel, we started collecting and presenting a few of the most stunning and original title sequences. This one's by Evan Mather, a filmmaker and animator based in LA. His animated main title shows an independent filmmaker struggling to get a film deal in Hollywood. But when everyone rejects his script, something inside him snaps.... more info
Germany, Animation, 2006, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:10:32
The complete series (seven episodes) of 'Waterlanders' (Waterworks'), by the Berlin-based animator M.I. De Heer. De Heer creates hybrid, episodic shorts in which he combines animation with photography or video. Most of his stories are slightly unsettling and display a dark sense of humor (see also 'All Things New' in SubmarineChannel's 'Chunks' program). But in this series of "best-case scenarios", De Heer's characters experience a rare conjunction of positive circumstances that puts them in a state of utter euphoria with some rather striking consequences... more info