A sci-fi instalment of London-based Mount Audio’s collaborative series (previously featured here). In “Forms III” LA-based designer and art director Kenneth Robin reimagines the work of 19th- century Diatomists — an art movement that involved collecting algae and arranging it into intricate patterns that could only be seen through a microscope.

Another stunning video from Björk, this time by directing-duo Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones. Click here to see more of Björk’s recent videos, if you haven’t already!

London-based animator Emmanuelle Walker of Nexus Studios takes on the colour orange for CNN’s Colorscope series.

Written and Narrated by Dr. James Fox
Producer: Sarah-Grace Mankarious
Production Company: Nexus Studios
Director: Emmanuelle Walker
Producer: Greet Kallikorm
Production Assistant: Islay Leefe-Griffiths
Executive Producer: Chris O’Reilly, Charlotte Bavasso
Production Company: Nexus Studios
Studio Lead: Elliott Kajdan
Art Direction: Emmanuelle Walker
Animators: Claudio Salas, Emanuele Romano, Pierre Rutz, Emmanuelle Walker
Motion Graphics: Elliott Kajdan, Abel Kohen, Emmanuelle Walker
Sound Design: John Black
Music: Giacomo Smith

This is just one of the many wonderful submissions we’ve received this week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

Video for N.E.R.D and Future’s track “1000” by directors Todd Tourso and Scott Cudmore. Dancer Mette Towley and choreographer JaQuel Knight are back once again as well. Click here to check out their previous work on N.E.R.D’s video for “Lemon,” if you haven’t already!

If we don’t choose our brains or our circumstances, are we really responsible for the choices that we make? That’s the question philosopher Raoul Martinez explores in this thought-provoking RSA short, delightfully animated by Joe Bichard (previously featured here).

Voice: Raoul Martinez
Animator: Joe Bichard
Sound Effects: Skillbard
Editor and Producer: Abi Stephenson

Great video for TR/ST’s track “Destroyer” co-directed by Los Angeles-based artist Justin Tyler Close and choreographer Ryan Heffington, who also stars as a man dancing his own unique way through the streets at night. Shot on Super16 by our friend, cinematographer Norm Li (previously featured here).

A group of logs make an unsettling realization while struggling to keep warm in this unexpected short by illustrator and filmmaker Nils Hedinger.

A beautifully shot portrait of the people living in the most highly populated volcanic region in the world. Directed by Toronto-based cinematographer Justin Pelletier, “Amongst Fire” is both a documentation and meditation on the close proximity between destruction and rejuvenation.

Production Company: Brick Films
Directed and Shot by: Justin Pelletier
Creative Producer: Adam Maruniak
Music by: William Ryan Fritch and Cubby
Motion Design: Jay Lee
Production Assistant: Miguel Schmallettes
Fire Dancer: Wayan Independentt
Voice: Nararya Nemo Narottama

This is just one of the many fantastic submissions we’ve received this week! Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

A funny little short about ghosts checking email by animator Andrew Onorato from Melbourne, Australia.

Barcelona-based director Carles Pons Altimira explores themes of loneliness and paranoia in this video for New Zealand-born, UK-based producer Leon van Dijk aka Pelorus. Shot in Bristol, “Dawn” follows a solitary man haunted by the presence of an oppressive entity. Nice cinematography by Albert Bada Leal, see full credits below.

Directed by Carles Pons Altimira
Starring: Joey Parry
Director of Photography: Albert Bada Leal
Head of production: Remco Merbis
Costume Designer: Mar Medinyà Barnadàs
Colorist: Álvaro Robles
Sound: Josh Coppersmith Heaven

This video was submitted by Carles Pons Altimira and selected by our team. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

More great work from Chicago-based animator Doug Alberts (previously featured here). “Kid-Conceptions” explores the importance of maintaining our childlike wonder through a series of endearing misconceptions people had about the world when they were kids.

Los Angeles-based filmmaker and photographer David Camarena captures a series of dreamy visuals for “Honey” by Kehlani (previously featured here).