One entry you may not have heard of in this year’s lineup of nominations in the Oscar’s “Best Animated Short Film” category is “Logorama”.
One of those (arguably the favorite of the bunch) was an animated film called Logorama, written and directed by the French duo of François Alaux and Herve de Crecy. Now nominated for a Best Animated Short Oscar, Logorama takes place in a world full of corporate and brand logos (in which roughly 2,500 appear), and it follows a few different stories that all intertwine with one another. Honestly, it’s bloody brilliant, and I guarantee it’ll be the best thing you watch all week.
A little bit Training Day, Pulp Fiction, and 2012 all in one, it’s a great piece of motion graphics work. The video is a bit difficult to find online, but now it’s available in it’s entirety on FaceBook here, and you can find more on the original site for the movie here. The language is a bit NSFW, but if you’ve got headphones you should be ok.
Update: Sorry folks, it’s been taken down.. If anyone finds a replacement, post a link in the comments.
Update #2: I’ve just been contacted by H5 about a correction.
The film was directed by and should be credited to H5. The lead creatives on the project were Ludovic Houplain (H5 founder), François Alaux and Herve de Crecy.
Apparently it’s rather important to get this corrected, as the film is up for an Oscar.
via Watch This: Brilliant Oscar-Nominated Short ‘Logorama’ – Cinematical.
