Beware, these 11 minutes are slow, silent and very sad. But also very beautiful. Great mix of media embedded into some tasteful cinematography and art direction.

I am reluctant to call this a short movie. So much story, warmth and clever ideas were put into these seven minutes, it would make any full-blown Hollywood blockbuster proud. Let's call it a sci-fi love story without words, but some deeper questions. For example: Why do all humans have these orange noses?

Ok, it's rather boring expensive brand marketing, but the effects of this 3D projection are very well done. I love the initial breakdown an the light effects in the second half.

A flash mob video is not what I typically feel like posting here. But this one is an exception and shows a special kind of poetry: A choir sings the Hallelujah chorus in a shopping mall food court full of christmas shoppers. Christmas is near!

Another one of those phantastic shorts from Gobelins, L'école de l'image. Great story, beautifully brought to life.

Bright, looney 3D animation coming from Yum Yum London. It's bursting with details. Look closer, with HD on!

Sweet sweet animated clips of only 3.5 seconds each. A bit dark, because – despite of the title – it only shows various deaths of birds. But it‘s executed in such a minimal and elegant style, that it‘s a pleasure to watch. The sound design supports it perfectly.

Animated clay forms an abstract/philosophical view on the cycles of matter. Super-fun, great music, lots of phantastic details. Watching in HD is recommended!

Very unusual piece of 2D animation. Takes some getting used to, but then it‘s hypnotizing. By Carolina Melis, music is Polygene by Efterklang.

This must have been lots and lots of work: Wall-painted stop-motion animated graffitti by BLU. Wonderfully quirky, dirty and full of neat ideas. Nearly ten minutes of floating, jumping, evolving, growing and exploding paint on various surfaces.

Killer music video made by programming an 1979 Apple ][+ computer. Pure and simple lo-fi ASCII animations that fit the wonderful song very well. Check out the cursor blinking in sync with the synthesizer rythm.

That stedio has some more very interesting conceptual work. Check the website!

Time-lapse video of iPhone surgery, exchange of a broken display.

0:22: Browsing the web for the next steps.

0:50: Yay, it works!

1:02: Getting a pincher from downstairs.

1:04: That stupid connector will not go back in where it belongs...

Taken with an iSight & Gawker (http://gawker.sourceforge.net)

Sean Stiegemeier went to Iceland and took some time-lapse shots from and around Eyjafjallajökull. Gorgeous. (And on a side-note: How can it be this guy still has no sponsor? Look at the view stats on the vimeo page! Over half a million views! Seriously.)

Abstract generative 3D motion piece by Future Deluxe for the coming "Life in 2050" exhibition. Perfectly matching sound as well.

It looks like a giant alien spacecraft, but it‘s a fractal structure, generated by a mathematics algorithm. The light, shadow and the red haze is rendered. Watching in HD recommended!

8-bit video game characters taking over New York City. The best CGI you will see today. Period.

By Renaud Hallée, such a simple yet beautiful animation! How awesome that it‘s done with “Basic keyframe animation using flash, without scripting.”