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6 days 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.

2 weeks ago | 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.

2 weeks ago | 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.

3 weeks ago | 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.

4 weeks ago | cartoonbrew.com | Chris Robinson |Tara Bennett

DocumentaryFeature FilmFestivals The Tribeca Festival, which will take place June 4-15 in New York City, announced its feature film line-up today, and among its selections are three animated features. Some major American film festivals, like Sundance and SXSW, are loath to acknowledge feature animation as an art form, so when Tribeca includes three films, it’s worth highlighting.