Cats vs. Progress - the world history of cats!

All of history, from sabre tooth tiger to the future - as told by the cat.

The Dinner Party ("Middagsbjudningen") - opens 2017-01-28, Capitol, Gothenburg, Sweden

 

Premiere: 28/1 2017 15:00: Göteborg Film Festival

Jill and Jane Kill Hitler

Premiere: 25/1-2015 12:00: Göteborg Film Festival   

My new animated short film: Jill and Jane Kill Hitler. 

Time travel! Rockets! Dinosaurs! Large hats!

Synopsis, large stills, etc, here.

The Swing Whale! - opens 2014-01-24 at Gothenburg International Film Festival

My new animated film - The Swing Whale - opens this Friday 2014-01-24 17:30 at Gothenburg International Film Festival, Svenska Bilder 7. 

Here's a link to more film info, stills, teaser etc.

#giff14

PICT-O-PICT at Animation Block Party in New York!

PICT-O-PICT was shown at Animation Block Party at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) 2013-07-28 - and I flew to New York for the first time since 1997... ABP was a really nice festival, celebrating 10 years, and I saw tons of nice animations. Including some early New York Animation...

Crossing the Atlantic via Copenhagen

BAM

Animator meet and greet

Nice cinemas

PICT-O-PICT on screen

on a walk in Brooklyn

From Brooklyn Heights

Central Park, the Great Lawn

Empire State

New short - opens today - PICT-O-PICT

A complete short just with pictograms. A 6:40 long animated short. Not just a few animated scenes.

Synopsis
Adventures in picto-world! (where all pictograms live). After the history lesson the picto-class goes to the picto-studio to see a real picto-shoot. The picto-king visits, but drops his picto-crown! The picto-model takes it! Can super-picto help? Or maybe the picto-kids...


Opens today at Gothenburg International Film Festival - Hagabion 1, 19:30 sold out - but more tickets available here...

Filmfacts:

PAL, animation, color 06:30 min., 16:9.written, drawn, scored and directed by Jacob Stålhammar

Shown at:
Gothenburg International Film Festival (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Edinburgh Short Film Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Animation Block Party (New York, USA)

Trailers, hirez pix, festival showings etc: here

Pictogram poster above.

A Bat in Paris - Premiere and Trailer

My new animated short "A Bat in Paris" has its world premiere at the Gothenburg International Film Festival 2012 22/1 14:00. Tickets here.

It's a short story of how Bat went to Paris and came back with loads of pictures to show Fox. Fox has all sorts of ideas of what goes on in Paris... and then there was a surprise.

Here's a trailer, more info and stills...

For embedding - VIMEO

FREE ANIMATED FILM - A High School Love Story (condensed) - Now watch the whole thing!

To celebrate last night's great premiere of my latest animated film - NIGHT SOUNDS - here's my very first animated film - A High School Love Story (condensed).
The whole film. For free.

But be warned, it's my first animated film, It's a typical beginner movie with "boy meets girl", sex, drugs, a bad bad priest - and a car chase. No expense spared!

Even on YOUTUBE

NIGHT SOUNDS - world premiere, trailer and stills

Here's the promo-card / mini-poster for my animated short "NIGHT SOUNDS" - and here are the TRAILER-PAGES.

Night Sounds is a friendly little spooky cartoon short, that borrows tons from Robert Wiene, Saul Bass and John Carpenter...


Film Facts:
Animated short film, color, stereo, 6 min. (friendly horror-for kids = no violence, no gore, just jumping creatures, eerie music, happy bats and a strange journey in the night...)


Written, drawn, cut, scored, directed by me, Jacob Stålhammar.

Featuring sounds from Freesound from old edgar, digifishmusic, ReWired, prosounder, sofie, Robinhood76, dobroide, acclivity, espectral, BenKoning, JamesOC - Great Thanks!

UPDATE: Night Sounds is officially selected for ANNECY FILM FESTIVAL 2011.

New short animation...

New film... roghly 20% left to do...

Work in progress - a new cartoon short.

Working title: "Night Sounds"

The Cats of Mars to Sydney!

This just in: My animated film "The Cats of Mars Meet the Toy Car" will be showing at Fantastic Planet - Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival

EDIT - The Cats will appear in a block of animations, here's more info!

Thu, Nov 4, 7:00pm - Dendy Newtown / SHORTS PROGRAM #4: Amazing Animations:
One Small Step (Dir: Damien Slevin/4 min/AUS)
The North Pole Deception (Dir: Joe Hitchcock/10 min/NZ)
The Cats of Mars Meet the Toy Car (Dir: Jacob Stålhammar/8 min/ Sweden)
The Adjustable Cosmos (Dir: Adam Duncan/21 min/AUS)
The Astronomers Sun (Dir: Simon Cartwright & Jessica Cope/6 min/UK )
Lifeline (Dir: Andres Salaff/6 min/USA)
Tales from the Afternow: Little Rocks (Dir: David T. Krupicz/12 min/CAN)
A Complex Villainelle (Dir: Howard Cook/8 min/USA )
SuperBattle: Episode 1 (Dir: Ethan Marak/7 mins/USA)
Yamasong (Dir: Sam K. Hale/9 min/USA)
The Painter of Skies (Dir: Jorge Morais Valle/20 min/ESP)

"Ralph and Jimmy" at the 2009 Arizona International Film Festival

My animated short film "Ralph and Jimmy" will be showing at the 2009 Arizona International Film Festival! :D

Here's a link to the trailer, and here's a link to the film's IMDB page.

The film "Ralph and Jimmy" is made by me. However, all the sound is cut from Sid Davis' 1961 classic Boys Beware.

This old "warn-kids-about-gay-men" film is hilarious in its own black and white self, but still... all that music. All those wonderful strings that Sid got to underscore the seriousness of the matter...
I simply felt that all this dramatic music and narration deserved - um - other pictures. So I drew and animated for months and "Ralph and Jimmy" is the result.

Still, great thanks to the late Sid Davis. Sid did 150-180 shorts where he warned kids about all kinds of things: Dangers in the home. Dangers in the street. Dangers of gangs. Dangers for girls. Apparently he took pride in the fact that he rarely exceeded budgets of USD 1000 per film. He also often shot - and acted - in his own films (well, after a while he retired to producing and mountain climbing).

What a wonderful (albeit slightly paranoid) career.

Ralph & Jimmy - Trailer page

March 18 2008, I started fiddling with the sound to Sid Davis' old Boys Beware and some crude doodles.

In November 2008 a five minute cartoon was ready to send to film festivals.

Just before Christmas I got news that my short Ralph & Jimmy was accepted at the Gothenburg International Film Festival 2009.

And now: here's the trailer! 1.5 minutes. New scenes! World premiere 2009-01-23

love prevails in eternal damnation...

baby steps: ... one of the first sketches of my first animated short.


Six months later A High School Love Story (condensed) was shown at the Gothenburg Film Festival....

world's best cat...

... the Cat That Hated People.

Fred Quimby's 1948 piece of absolute genious.

Youtube

The Bonus

After a month of ten hour days: my first longer animation. A music video / promo for the The Bonus (Bonusen), from Swedish artist Emrik.

For a clearer view than YouTube, there's Quicktime, Winmedia and iPod versions free to download at my homepage. Click promo in the news of 2007-05-05. . Krummagumma has a clear one too.
Finally, for some workflow feel, below is roughly the third storyboard.