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US directors Tim Platt and Birigt Rathsmann made the experimental 2D short Octopus. Watch the film and see how it was made.

Watch the stop-motion music video Dwell With Me by Eric Leiser for the eponymous track by by MJ Dorian.

 A father, a son and a piece of luggage. Watch the bittersweet stop-motion film, Negative Space by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata.

What do you get when you order albatross soup? Here's Winnie Cheung on an animation documentary and a riddle at the same time.

The sophomore feature from the creator of Sita Sings the Blues is now available to watch in full.

All you need to know about US/Chinese artist Lei Lei and his feature experimental film, Breathless Animals, premiering at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival.

Film review for experimental feature Breathless Animals by  US/Chinese artist Lei Lei, which premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival.

Strange desires and missed opportunities in the comedy Quickand by Jennifer Bianchi.

 View the video from the Canadian animator's award ceremony during the 2017 Annie Awards.

The late, Oscar-winning animation director Will Vinton took home to show Mark Twain's relevance to his contemporaries. Here's why the claymation effort still matters.

The 1984 short animated, Black women empowerment film joined the yearly slate of films deemed culturally significant for preservation.

 Animation sometimes predates reality. Watch the engagingly subversive Dust with Flour short by Annelise Williams.

Chinese/US independent animation artist Lei Lei complains about comics. Watch I Don't Like The Comics You Drew.

US independent animation director Nina Paley makes the story of Exodus an overwhelming musical extravaganza, which still finds time to register its gender-based raison d' être.

Review for the new experimental animation feature Apocalypsis by US director Eric Leiser.

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