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cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson
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While Hungary is the country of focus at this year’s Annecy animation festival, it’s Canada that’s stealing the spotlight in both the short and feature competitions.
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cartoonbrew.com | Isabel Ravenna
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Like many enduring cultural icons, Phineas and Ferb only seemed to grow bigger after it ended. That said, tv shows can be reincarnated.
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cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson
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cartoonbrew.com | Toussaint Egan
InterviewsShortsVideogames Last month, game developer Bungie released a new cinematic short film set in the universe of Marathon, the studio’s highly anticipated sci-fi extraction shooter slated to release on consoles and PC this September.
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cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson
Cartoon Brew PickStudent Minus Plus Multiply (2024) is a graphic feast that explores the complexities of identity. A woman struggles to find her own path as she navigates a strange environment filled with towering containers. Animated films about solitary figures wandering surreal landscapes in search of freedom are common — even clichéd — but Chu-Chieh Lee’s Minus Plus Multiply stands out.
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cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson
Cartoon Brew PickCGIMusic Videos A trippy mixed-media music video, “Small Town Madness” is a visual roller coaster you’ll want to ride again and again. This wild, vibrant, and hallucinogenic video by Korean artist Sujin Kim (with live-action sequences directed by Au Matt) serves as the perfect funhouse mirror for the band Kiwi Hug’s pastiche of ska, drum and bass, pop, and post-punk sounds. As for the plot?
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1 month ago | 
cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson
Cartoon Brew PickMusic VideosStop Motion Canada’s animated collage wunderkind, Winston Hacking, teams up once again with stop-motion maestro Philippe Tardif to create “Listen2Me” — a blistering visual tour de force. Toss Terry Gilliam into a blender with Michael Snow, and you might end up with something as spectacular as Hacking’s “Listen2Me,” a music video for Foxwarren.
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cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson
Cartoon Brew PickMusic Videos If there’s a go-to song for times of personal or global stress, it has to be Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s haunting “Is That All There Is?,” memorably performed by Peggy Lee in the late 1960s and here reimagined by Irish singer Mary Coughlan. The lyrics recount house fires, circus spectacles, love’s triumphs and losses, and the ever-present specter of mortality.
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cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson
Cartoon Brew Pick Oscar-winning animator Joan Gratz’s take on a Charles Bukowski poem has just landed online. Ironically beginning with a leader countdown, Gratz’s No Leaders, Please (2020) feels at first like a call to eradicate the madness that governs our world. In reality, it’s an exploration of identity — its fluidity and shapeshifting nature. Bukowski, through Gratz’s lens, seems to plead that we resist the pull of the average and the mediocre.
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cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson
Cartoon Brew Pick A fast-paced, darkly comic take on grief and guilt, Morten Tšinakov & Lucija Mrzljak’s Eeva (2022) — shortlisted for the Oscars in 2023 — is now available online. The latest offering from the award-winning Estonian duo opens at a funeral. It’s a miserably rainy day. A grieving woman — who may or may not have nudged fate along — and a quartet of everymen head to a post-funeral reception at a local restaurant. Booze flows. Music plays. Tables are turned.