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

 

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas and here's a gift:

Free film for all! behind the card is the film, including ipodversion

Should you want to embed (or if the server is annoying) here's another copy at YouTube

Completely made from material from the public domain at archive.org.