Film

After weeks of lockdown and countless video calls, we are tired of our own apartments. Stop redecorating your home office space, skip the fancy bookshelf and artsy prints – Studio Ghibli has something much more fun to step up your video call game.

We are all affected by the current situation, therefore not only companies, but also people in the creative industries are offering their services for free to help overcome boredom during the lockdown. One of those creatives is Gary Hustwit, director of the film "RAMS", which we showed at last years Forward Festival Vienna.

For the Forward Festival season 2019, Raj Davsi and The Mill surprised us with their incredible film for our Main Title Sequence. Within two days the film was awarded the Vimeo Staff Pick and last week at Berlin Commercial it won the award for Best Animation. Now it's time to take a look behind the scenes and find out how Raj and his team brought the odd panther to life.

One of our special highlights is The Mill's exclusively produced Main Titles for the Forward Festival. The film celebrates the energy and strength to stand out from the crowd - following the 2019 Festival motto: The Odd One Out. We are thrilled that the film made it even to the Staff Picks on Vimeo within the first week of release. So we met Raj Davsi for an interview.

Since the creation of the Star Wars universe in 1977, it has cast a spell on millions of fans all over the galaxy – and the mania that came along just doesn’t seem to wear off. The team around George Lucas kickstarted a new creative era for Hollywood, but the individual artists involved in the original trilogy almost never appeared in the center of attention.

Forward took this year's festival slogan "Construct-Deconstruct" to another level. Inspired by Pablo Picasso's quote, "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction", we destroyed the Forward Festival design from 2017. The new design evolved from this destructive act.

Animation collective MegaComputeur created a hilarious new video featuring two clumsy robbers trying to rob a grocery store.

In an attempt to liven up the art history museum Jack Sachs has created an animated film tour of the Tate Britain, where his brilliantly bizarre, plasticine-like CG characters move around the gallery amid the art. SHHH! features animated creatures invading motion-tracked footage of the gallery’s interior space.

Stefan Sagmeister stellt sich in The Happy Film einer der größten Fragen unserer Zeit: "Was macht mich glücklich?". Der Film ist ab 5. Jänner in Deutschland, Schweiz und Österreich in den Kinos zu sehen. Du kannst ihn aber schon vorab sehen und bei der Premiere, bei der Stefan Sagmeister selbst anwesend sein wird, dabei sein.

Wes Anderson has directed the H&M Christmas commercial for 2016 named Come Together starring Adrien Brody, working with ad agency Adam & Eve/DDB. The story starts off with a train conductor, played by Brody, announcing to his passengers that the snowy weather is going to delay their journeys home for Christmas.

Director Kris Merc has worked together with animation studio Aardman Nathan Love to create a video for a landmark musical collaboration between Kool Keith and MF Doom.