Our final Halloween animated short comes from Fuh-rance—Mortys focuses in on a mother grim reaper trying to balance her job and her family life in the 21st century. I saw this video quite a while ago and it was actually the inspiration for doing a weeks’ worth of animated shorts… hope you enjoy!
Artist: Danny Elman / Album: Sleepy Hollow
Well it’s Saturday, which means it’s time to loosen up a bit!! That’s what Saturday means, right? Sadly enough, I’ll be spending it at home and in bed with a horrible sore throat… wah wah. At any rate, Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), is a collaboration between director Spike Jonze (best known for Where the Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and his many forays into music video land) and designer Olympia Le-Tan that focuses on the “star-crossed” love story of two characters from book covers in the fictional Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare and Co.
Fair warning, there’s a bit of “loosening up” happening in the video—they are only felt puppets, mind you—but it might be a bit inappropriate for some of you. You know who you are!
Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.
Artist: Danny Elfman / Album: The Corpse Bride
Today’s selection is another Academy Award nominated short film, this time following two undertakers as they attempt to deliver their package goods commission charge coffin to its final resting place.
Artist: Ray Merrell/ Album: Keep the Customer Satisfied
Because it would be unfair to not have Tim Burton represented…
Artist: Josh Groban/ Album: Josh Groban
Our next Halloween animated short selection isn’t so much terrifyingly creepy as it is… cherrily creepy?
Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.
Artist: Jerry Herman/ Album: Hello, Dolly
So apparently I’ve just given up on blogging, huh? October of last year I made it a point to do a blog post a day… this month I’m up to a whopping three. So, in order to get back in the biz, I’ve decided that since there is a little less than a week to Halloween I would feature an appropriately seasonally themed animated short a day until the 31st!
Our first installment, The Lady and the Reaper, is an Academy Award nominee (2009) and follows the tale of an elderly woman who is waiting for death in order to be reunited with her long passed husband.
The lady and the reaper from Hormoz Zamanpour Siahkal on Vimeo.
Why do they all talk like Sims characters?!?!
Artist: Stephen Sondheim/ Album: A Little Night Music
