Stash releases its 5th anniversary issue! Check out all the goodies you’ll find inside Stash 60: the Bonus Disk of 14 short films from the F5 RE:PLAY film fest; cool sticker art from Freestyle Collective; 10 sweet MP3 tracks from Expansion Team Records; a poster of Stash cover art from all 60 issues; PLUS 95 minutes of must-see animation/VFX projects and 15 minutes of Behind the Scenes features.
The Stash 60 party starts with a drink, namely Tanqueray Gin, poured into three smooth and lush spots from Motion Theory. Then the chaos starts: Nathan Love rescues a “Suicidal Cabbage” for City Harvest; The Mill directors Bif push the pop-up genre to new limits for Ford; Sweden’s Fido flesh out a friendly giant for German energy company RWE; São Paulo’s Prodigo Films demonstrate why we should all pee in the shower; and Sydney’s Mighty Nice cook up a typographic feast for the Melbourne Writers Festival.
The globe-spanning broadcast design section on Stash 60 launches with thousands of tumbling dominoes for FOX Italy from 3DN Post in Buenos Aires, slick and visceral Syfy IDs from London’s ManvsMachine, raw and kinetic new spots for Fuel TV from Elastic in Santa Monica, crazed clips from Ronda for a dangerous little show called “Adrenalina”, and the fantasy-fueled Summer 09 campaign created in-house at MTV Canada.
The second half of Stash 60 begins with a head-snapping parade of innovative narratives and character-craft: Supinfocom students Anthony Arnoux, Remi Dessinges and Guillaume Fesquet wrap Harlem in dark paranoia in From the Hoop; Manhattan’s Nathan Love rip open a can of really-nasty for the “Blood Trail” script promo; Shynola chalk up a Herculean video for Coldplay; director Dylan White and Nexus Productions spin a dark tale and quirky tale called Yowie and the Magpie; Jimena Oddi and Jorge Jaramillo invent a new genre we’re calling power-kitch for the N.A.S.A. track “Wachadoin”; and French students Looky, Clement Delatre and Adrien “Cayus” Toupet take us on a dystopian steam punk adventure in La Main des Maitres.
Experimental fillmmaking is here in full force too. Witness Jul & Mat’s unofficial splatter-fest for Alt-Delete recording artists Metronomy, Baptiste Sola’s minamalist geometric love story called “The Exchange”, and Betsy Kopmar’s technically innovative and visually arresting personal work called Night Fishing with Cormorants.
Then it’s time for pure fun: Tandem Films’ Mr. Tofield is back with more feline antics in Simon’s Cat Fly Guy; UK director Lucy Izzard of Slinky Pictures introduces us to a host of strange pets and their owners in One of the Family; New York’s Freestyle Collective help us escape the stress of reality with a tasty litte treat called Lemon Drop Kiss; WIZZdesign directors Flying V take self-delusion to the comic extreme in Virgile; and Saimon Chow and Sean Dougherty expose their use of banned substances with a multi-media extravaganza for Fuel TV called Looking Thru the B-Sides.
And we wrap Stash 60 with a few thoughful gems: Isreali animation student Eran Hilleli shows off his stylish, iconoclastic storytelling with two films, Knowledge of the Cone and Inside/Out; Hollywood animation studio Titmouse bring the perfect understated energy to The Fray’s cover of “Heartless” and five Gobelins students share their exuberant and wildly inventive take on childhood fantasy called Après la Pluie.
The BONUS FILM on 60 is Les Ventres, a 15-minute triumph from French director Philippe Grammaticopoulos who created his own genre of black and white filmmaking with the short films Le Processus and Le Regulateur and won a Gold Lion at Cannes in 2007.
The BEHIND THE SCENES line-up on 60 gets you up close and personal with Nathan Love and their gruesome “Blood Trail” promo, Fido and their RWE energy giant, Jimena Oddi and Jorge Jaramillo and their insane video for NASA, Jul+Mat and their chromatic frenzy for Metronomy and Flying V at WizzDesign with their short film Virgile.
The SPECIAL BONUS DISK included in Stash 60 showcases 14 short films produced for the F5 conference held in New York in April 2009, including must-see work from Buck, Superfad, Nanospore, Crush, Shilo, Not to Scale, Digital Kitchen, Ryan Rothermel and Sean Pecknold, La Flama, Bearfight, Imaginary Forces, Pistachios and Holbrooks.
The BONUS MUSIC on Stash 60 arrives courtesy of New York-based label Expansion Team Records and includes 10 tracks (55 minutes!) of audio delights from Ready Aim Fire, Plus Move, No Luck Club, Men Without Pants, Malibu, John McBain, Genji Siraisi, The Beasts of Eden, Balún and Alex Moulton.
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