Week 9: A-Z of Tiny Blips and Short Clips

Daniele Manoli created a series of short videos based around the letters of the alphabet, with each one assigned a meaning. The videos are a mixture of experimental video, motion graphics and animation, and sometimes both.
Each one is very in and of itself with it's own style and distinction, which is a remarkable result for 26 shorts created by the same person over a year.
Some tie loosley to the given theme, others are very direct with it. Some are very short while others span up to 3 or 4 minutes.

Artist Description from longplay.fr - "DANIELE MANOLI is a self made director coming from graphism and motion design.
He is living in Hong-Kong where he created his own studio.
His work consist in mixing different technics ( Graph, Drawing, Painting, Photo and Video) therefore to obtain a special eye candy work in between stop motion and live action.
DANIELE believes in experimentation."

Here's a selection of some I found particularly good.

L:

This video, although looking very animated, is made entirely from cut out shots of neon lights in Hong Kong. I think this one is my favorite, but it's hard to call.




S:

This one is almost a short movie, supposedly commenting on how 'the industry' works.




Q:

One of the more abstract ones but very impressive, cool video effects.




O:

Really cool motion graphic effects for this. Just really liked the overall result of it.




F:

Strange, vague and nice looking animation



I think what I liked most about this project was the fact that Manoli wasn't tied down to anything, style or content (either within or between each video), once the vague structure was decided. If someone else decided to create something using the same foundation of 26 shorts with letters of the alphabet, something completely different would be created. I would actually like to see more people to apply this to a project and see the results. It was a nice piece to come across and soon realised I had seen a music video of his before this also. (first video here)


To see the whole collection click here. Each one is well worth a look
http://www.behance.net/DanieleManoli