Stop Motion Favourites 2009

Here’s a few recent stop motion highlights from outside Portable that we’ve been admiring from afar as of late:

The ESCP Human Experience

ESCP Europe is the oldest institution dedicated to business education in the world – more than 300 ESCP Europe students worked together to create this abstract expressioning of the school’s values. Key figures: 316 actors, 658 tee-shirts, 9m2 of cardboard, 4198 photos, 123m of gaffer tape for 3645 markers…

Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance

From the album The Opposite Side of the Sea, Oren Lavie’s “Her Morning Elegance,” was released in January this year to universal attention, realised by Portable Film Festival Filmmakers Yuval and Meral Nathan, with assistant editor, and fellow Portable Film Festival alumni Guy Ben Shetrit, and is still just as great in the way it uses the limitations of space for it’s stop motioning ways…

Going West

Colenso BBDO produced this for the New Zealand Book Council, taking on the stop motion challenge of literally bringing a book (respected New Zealand author Maurice Gee‘s Going West) to life…

And here are our favourite Portable stop motions for 2009; if you haven’t seen them yet, be sure to check them out below!:

Sorry I’m Late

Tomas Mankovsky takes stop motion technique to some real life extremes in ‘Sorry I’m Late…’

Autumn Story – Firekites

Lucinda Shcreiber and Yanni Kronenberg’s Autumn Story is a chalk animation, hand drawn on a patchwork of blackboards. A psychedelic journey through houses, whispers, cats and claps.

Winner of the Best Music Video (Animation) and Best Music Video (Audience Award) at St Kilda Film Festival.

Long Gone – Fat City Reprise

Cesar Kuriyama’s music video for Fat City Reprise’s ‘Long Gone,’ created entirely with 45,000 photographs. Inspired by the lead dinger’s sisters’ real life addiction to heroin.