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Repetition - Max Cooper from Kevin McGloughlin on Vimeo.

KEVIN MCGLOUGHLIN: 'Repetition' is an attempt to convey the importance of our endless endeavours toward human development and growth amidst a chaotic and disorienting landscape.

The struggle for a fruitful future is challenging with the distractions of everyday life alongside its ever-growing technological 'advancements'.

The hope is for humanity to strive through all of this in a meaningful and positive way.

Directed: Kevin McGloughlin kevinmcgloughlin.com instagram.com/kevinmcgloughlin_gram

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MAX COOPER: I wanted to make something huge and intense for the new live show, so I went for a project attempting to visualise the infinite and its links to us in our everyday lives. For every chapter of the story I found a different technique to approach it, in this case, the simple idea of repetition. Apply it, and we have a form of infinity. This was also a natural fit for my music, where I had a nice excuse to push the repetitive boat out even more than usual. I kept it very stripped back to focus on the idea, with slow evolution and occasional variants to maintain some melodic engagement.

Visually, I was lucky to get to work with one of my favourite artists, Kevin McGlouglin, where we told the human side of the story, our endless pursuit of growth and "progress", our duplication of built form and expanding cities, looking to an unbounded future of urban sprawl. It was an audio-visualisation encompassing the project title "Yearning for the Infinite". But despite our society-endangering issues around human consumption and sustainability, it wasn't supposed to be a doom scenario. We tried that musically and it didn't seem to fit. There was a back and forth on the ideas and their musical and visual representation, and what worked was something that for me seems more focused on the worth of our endless striving than its possible role in our downfall.

Stream/download: ffm.to/yearningfortheinfinite

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Getting Started from William J Crook on Vimeo.

The person and the project get mixed up in this short film, made for the Swiss Animators Association to celebrate their 50th anniversary.

Vienna is like... from Black Sheep Films on Vimeo.

Directed by Fernando Livschitz

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Creative Director: Stefan Mayer

You Clap For Me Now from Sachini Imbuldeniya on Vimeo.

You Clap for Me Now is a poem to remind us all that the large majority of ‘key workers’ are from Black and Minority Ethnic families. It is read out line-by-line by first, second and third-generation immigrants including doctors, nurses, teachers, shopkeepers, dentists, social workers, delivery drivers, broadcasters and more.

Despite long, shameful histories of facing racism and hostility, immigrants in every country are showing kindness and solidarity by delivering essential aid and services to their nations.

Because we know – and they know – that it doesn’t matter where you come from.

During this pandemic we are all humans together, fighting a common enemy.

You Clap for Me Now reminds us all that when we finally emerge from lockdown, we must remember those who helped us and our loved ones through it.