Hello Mister Video - Vancouver, BC

Rene Laloux, director of Fantastic Planet [La Planète sauvage], created Gandahar, his final animated feature film, in 1988. Based on an original story by Jean-Pierre Andrevon, and a huge hit in France at the time of its release, it combines Laloux’s famous imagination with that of animation designer Philippe Caza. Gandahar is a fascinating, adult […]

Rene Laloux, the director of Fantastic Planet [La Planète sauvage], created Time Masters [Les Maîtres du temps], his penultimate animated feature film, in 1982. A huge hit in France at the time of its release, it combines Laloux’s famous imagination with that of animation designer Jean Giraud (aka Moebius).
On planet Perdide, an attack of giant […]

Rene Laloux’s mesmerising psychedelic sci-fi animated feature won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and is a landmark of European animation. Based on Stefan Wul’s novel Oms en série [Oms by the dozen], Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of […]

Paper Rad is a Pittsburgh, PA/Northampton, MA collective that has bubbled under the elastic waistline of the world’s slacks for over a decade, tickling its privates and filling its diapers. This collective first started churning out cortex hemorrhaging lysergia comics and moved on to bands, videos, snack foods and installations. Past videos for the bands […]

“Mind-blowing” says The Boston Herald of this dazzling anime from Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue). The plot loosely details the havoc that ensues when the DC-Mini, a machine that lets our heroine psychoanalytically penetrate the minds of her patients, falls into the wrong hands. “The movie comes on like a mix between a vintage surrealist short […]

Run Wrake is known as an animator and illustrator, who has collaborated with Howie B and created visuals for U2’s Vertigo tour. His latest short animation Rabbit has won the Special International Jury Prize at the International Animation Festival in Hiroshima. Rabbit, was made using scanned 1950s educational stickers, and weaving a story from […]

Worlds apart from anime and close to experimental film, Japanese animator Naoyuki Tsuji creates a distinctive universe with a few simple, hand-drawn lines in charcoal and pastel. What first appears to be childlike crudeness in his animation is actually subtle, strange, and even “haunting and frightening” (The Guardian). Tsuji’s films captivate us because they are […]

The videos featured were all made by Dublin’s Delicious 9, who have produced all the visual content for the Caribou tours. Most of the images in the videos were hand-drawn and later colored on a computer, then meticulously synchronized with the kaleidoscopic swirl of electronics and the heavy, heavy double drummer attack that is the […]