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Snow Melting on the Skylight


A stop action test I made the morning after the snowstorm.
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No Shoes (Prospect Heights)


A little movie I made at the Dean Street playground during the snowstorm. Music by John Lee Hooker.
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Man on Wire

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Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary of wire walker Philip Petit’s preparations for his world-famous Twin Towers stunt. On the morning of August 7, 1974, Petit made 8 crossings, lingering on the wire for over 40 minutes 1400 feet above the street without a safety net! The audacity and the depth of planning of this stunt are especially remarkable given how the Towers were destroyed 27 years later. Why did he do it? The press and police badgered him with that question, a question the Frenchman called very American. After you watch this fascinating film, you realize how irrelevant the question is.
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Unbelievable CGI

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

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Pyromaniacs Meet Rube Goldberg

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Sunset Bike Ride (NSB)



One of my last evenings at ACA, I made a little movie of my bike ride to Turnbull Bay. The music is a beautiful sentimental excerpt from Gorecki's London Symphony.
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Scintillation

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.


This is a very beautiful stop-motion (over 35K stills) and projection-mapping photographic animation. Just gorgeous! The filmmaker is Xavier Chassaing. You can read more about the creation here.
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Animated Film Celebrates Publisher's 25th

A beautiful PR stop motion animation to celebrate a U.K. publisher’s 25th anniversary by AptStudio. Warning: it appears that books were irrevocably harmed in the name of art. The horror! The horror!


This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
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A Nose Is a Nose Is a Nose?

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In a kind of Borgesian rewriting of history, United Artists has apparently doctored old photographs of Claus von Stauffenberg, the attempted assassin of Hitler, so they resemble better Tom Cruise who is playing the German hero in a film called Valkyrie slated to open in February of 2009. Read about the controversy and how it ties in to Scientology here.
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