Christian Schlaeffer animates a series of seemingly random and nonsensical events based on a prophesy of a religion he finds to be “syncretic, ridiculous and pointless… though really not any more syncretic, ridiculous and pointless than any and all other religions.”
CONTENT WARNING: Contains some non-sexual, surreal nudity.
Jake Fried animates the hypnotic evolution of a room and its inhabitants in great detail using only ink and white-out.
Some silhouetted villagers worship a giant machine which dispenses eyeballs, while others seek to destroy it in this strange award-winning animation that spawned two sequels.
Two kids are cured of their boredom when they receive a concussion from a rainbow.
Artist Markus Neidel interacts with his animation on occasion by combining it with live-action film. This week’s short, “S-Bahn” is his latest and most complete work using this technique.