It occurred to me that my original post about SP09 was a little bit dry. OK, super dry. I tried to sum up 2 days of amazing visual inspiration with a whole lot of words. It was Sunday when I wrote it.

So, in an effort to rectify this, here are some of the coolest moving image things that caught my attention at Semi-Permanent09:

Trailer for STUDIOaka’s animated adaptation of children’s book Lost & Found by Oliver Jeffers

Definitely going to check this out when I get a chance. A beautiful story animated in a lovely way. Had a chance to chat to STUDIOaka’s Phillip Hunt (the director) over dinner on Friday night and his passion for animation and humility was super cool.

Trailer for STUDIOaka’s animated adaptation of picture book Varmints

Another amazing looking animated short film from STUIDOaka. This trailer almost had the audience choked up, so I am sure that this will be a tear jerker.

Music video for Simian Mobile Disco – Synthesise (co-directed by Kate Moross)

Banging music vid from Kate Moross that had the auditorium rocking. Super simple idea, that is perfectly executed and captures the energy of the tune so perfectly. Awesome throw back to warehouse rave days.

Music video for Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity of Huge (co-directed by Kate Moross)

Another vid for SMD which is a literal visual interpretation of the lyrics of the tune. Love the bright colours and not-so-seriousness of it.

Music video for Clark – Ted by 1stAveMachine

Dark video for a dark tune. Apparently some people have trouble seeing which parts of this are real filmed insects, and which parts have been added digitally in post. These people have a frightening concept of what insects really look like close up.

Promotional propaganda video for 1stAveMachine

Neat little propaganda piece done to promote 1stAveMachine when they first set up.

Alexia Sinclair compresses 4 days of work into a 4 minute video

An amazing insight into the painstaking process that Alexia goes through in creating her incredible images.

There was so much more awesomeness, but this was the stuff I could track down easily online. After all, I am a little bit lazy. You’ll just have to go along yourself next year.

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Poppy
August 20, 2009
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You seem far too cool to blatantly name drop..

But a ‘chat’ over dinner with ‘Phillip Hunt’. Well I am green with envy… :)

August 20, 2009
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Yeah, in hindsight that sounds excessively wanky. Sorry about that.
He was really cool though.

Poppy
August 20, 2009
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I’ll try find you a link of the whole film, but my fave studio aka piece is a promo for Sufjan Stevens (it’s on their website). You gotta love a film about a budgie made from a cardboard box… the low angle shots of forest remind me of being a kid in my backyard again.

I passed you at Semi-permanent but was too shy to say hi!

August 21, 2009
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Cool, will check it. Thanks for the tip :)

And next time you see me definitely say hi!

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