In the animated film space, two things naturally come to mind: stories for children and big-budget, formulaic projects. The former idea is something directors have been fighting for years, a recent ...
From its inception in 1908 with Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, film animation has always been a medium that esteems the conveyance of visuals, by its very definition. As animation as we know it has ...
Animated feature “Flow,” selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, has debuted an exclusive image and it’s purr-fect. In the dialogue-free film, a flood is coming, quickly devouring everything on its ...
Oscar-winning “Flow” by Latvia’s Gints Zilbalodis brought Baltic animation to new heights. Now, local creators are figuring out how to benefit from the aftermath of its success. “Sometimes, big fate ...
One of the surprises of the awards season is Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow” — the dialog-free tale of a solitary cat’s emotional journey as it learns to survive after a great flood — which upended the ...
Zilbalodis tells IndieWire about working in Blender to create an emotive, evocative animation style. Focused on a cat, who reluctantly ends up in the same boat as a set of other animals amid a flooded ...