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I just don’t know…
The Pica Towers micro shorts were unusual. At first I thought the films were very Tim Burton-like but then I noticed there wasn’t a distinct story line. Pizza Sangre had the best “story line” if you could call that one. … Continue reading
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Lesson from Pica Towers: There’s such beauty in bot-on-bot crime
Wowza. I was not prepared for the sinister genius in studioAKA’s Pica Towers series. After watching “The Good News”, “Hounds in Flesh” and “Pizza Sangre” (in that order), I thought: “How can these filmmakers pack so much punch in just … Continue reading
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When Pixar Works With M. Night Shyamalan
If the creators at Pixar were ever to collaborate with M. Night Shyamalan I imagine the final product would be something like this. The studioAKA short films mix digital animation, with odd, scary settings as well as extremely left of center characters … Continue reading
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Pica Towers: Pixar for Sadists
If Wall-E ever took drugs and had a bad trip, this is how I imagine it would turn out. Just a desolate world of cute little machines who are actually crazy and kill each other because there’s nothing else to … Continue reading
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