Monthly Archives: October 2012

This is by far my favorite videos you have every asked us to look at. It is inspiring and engaging and what is really strange is that it is all an animation. It is very inspirational to see how this … Continue reading →

When watching Pica Towers series by Marc Castre, I was a little nervous. I don’t know why. The creatures are rounded little robots, there is no red blood, not even any heavy breathing. The fact that Castre pulls horror off … Continue reading →

Black and white, shades of gray. Textures, depth, eyes astray. The minions moved into Henrik Galeen’s 1922 silent film adaptation of Brahm Stoker’s “Nosferatu” – minus the suspense. A world where the cute little good-book-toting visitor knocks on the wrong … Continue reading →

That was the most animated drama I’ve seen in 3 minutes.  The Pica Towers trilogy: The Good News, Hounds of Flesh and Pizza Sangre took me to a dark place but kept  myattention. It is important to watch the videos … Continue reading →

The trilogy, Pica Towers can be summed up as mesmerizing. The different components used by Craste and Studio AKA to create mood, tone, aesthetic and narrative all work together to lure the viewer into the dark and captivating moments of … Continue reading →

Marc Craste’s Pica Towers Trilogy is truly inspiring. He created an powerful storyline without using narration by incorporating simple animated characters with unique personalities, strong audio to build suspense and create a strong telepresence, and compelling filming techniques to emphasize … Continue reading →

This Weekend, I watched the animated trilogy Pica Towers. My initial impression of the series was that it would be a cutie Pixar style animation, but quickly I realized the the subject matter of the shorts was rather perverse. The … Continue reading →

After watching the movie I can say I was slightly confused only because I dont watch horror films but I did enjoy the creativity of the video. For starters I really liked the characters used in the videos. I dont … Continue reading →

The Pica Towers trilogy is a wonderful series of short films created by Marc Craste and Studio AKA. As short films go, this little mini-series was probably one of my favorite. Craste placed the film completed in black and white, … Continue reading →

I loved these twisted little animated films.  The makers created some sort of strange, spare post-apocalypic world that involved small evil robots skittering about a dark stone industrialized building of some sort. Hounds of Flesh opens with a blind robot … Continue reading →