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You don't always need the camera to make a fine film, and preserve cinematic memories at the same time. Zippy Frames talks to the pioneer Canadian filmmaker Steven Woloshen.

A faceless but not expressless music video by Tom Munday and the Steve Puddle and his Bivouac Band. Watch Cold Hearted Land.

Clay motion at its most white: the exquisite story of a girl lost by the Estonian animation director Anu-Laura Tuttelberg.

Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson sign a perfectly sweet and melancholic essay on identity and love in stop-motion.

The Oscar-nominated Alê Abreu (Boy and the World) and Ruiz Bolognesi (Rio 2096) team up for a new animated feature production.

Here's a story of extravagant artistry and content. Watch the French animation short 8 Bullets by Frank Ternier.

The restoration of the Czech Karel Zeman's films already counts a premiere and three films under way.

Kasia Nalewajka knows how to play with puppets and concept roles. Watch her Pineapple Calamari.

 The Estonian puppet animator Ülo Pikkov has a new documentary animation short, Empty Space. Read his interview for Zippy Frames.

Can't have the one without the other. Watch (Xmas) Tag by Dan Edgley.

UK indie animator Robert Grieves celebrates Xmas.

When Santa got a little drunk.

The very crafty French/US co-production of The Little Prince can be a fine film at times, but keeps retelling its message in more ways than Saint d' Exupéry's essential simplicity would permit.

The French feature Mune is a revelation of what 3D computer animation can do with a children's story.

The latest offering from Studio Ghibli is sweet and good-natured, but it doesn't match its previous achievements.

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