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2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Curiosa’ Director Tessa Moult-Milewska

‘Curiosa’ explores the question of how much we should know about our romantic partners, and how much is too much.

The NFB film earned its Oscars qualification by winning the Helen Hill Award for animated short at the New Orleans Film Festival.

Featuring intricately crafted wooden-style puppets with hand-drawn eyes and mouths, the short serves as a fitting coda to McHale’s masterpiece.

The film is directed by the Polish duo Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski.

Ole Tillmann, art director of ‘Harold Halibut,’ walks us through the production process of one of 2024’s most distinctive-looking video games.

Kantor mixes live-action footage with 2d computer animation, acrylic on paper, photography, and rotoscope to examine how we perceive memory.

“Slow Light” employs paper cut-out stop-motion and b&w hand-drawn animation to differentiate between overlapping timelines.

A producer explains how they built a pipeline for the upcoming hybrid series “Royals Next Door.”

Music video for Iron Maiden’s “The Writing on the Wall.”

Music video for a Chemical Brothers song, mixing archival footage, hand-drawn animation, and

The Canadian director has followed his 2019 film “Ville Neuve” with an equally multi-layered, mesmerizing work.

On a train journey without stops or destination, each passenger has a problem that they need to solve or embrace.

A surreal ode to rebirth and reinvention haunted by the genial spectre of Buster Keaton.

An elderly couple is addicted to a psychedelic face cream.

Cartoon Brew speaks to directors Luis Usón and Andrés Aguilar about their award-winning hybrid short film.

A video is dedicated to the lives of endangered bird species.

Music video for Thom Yorke’s “Last I Heard (…He Was Circling the Drain).”

Starring a tyrannical ladybug, “The Shadybug” pushes ASN’s brand as an ethical bank.

Object animation, mural painting, and live performers tell the story of a child trying to piece together a divorce.

Winner of the Vimeo Staff Pick Award at the 2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival.