Award winning animations from the annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival. Each year the best submissions are chosen for the competition, with major cash prizes awarded by prestigious guest jurors.
Sara Roth
WHIRLIGIG is about alienation and the fragmented self of the modern era. As our main character attempts tirelessly to wash away themself indulging in escapist comfort, an image of perfection is ever-looming. Freedom from this destruction of self may be found in its confrontation.
Sar...
Jack Wedge
A detective is hired to go look for an exiled king.
Supernova 2019 Director's Choice Prize winner
Eli Ayres
Surveillance Anxieties on a cloudy day.
Supernova 2019 Competition Grand Prize winner
Kamal Adisa
Parsons School of Design
Supernova 2019 Student Showcase Prize winner
A boy wakes up in a mysterious world and makes new friends.
Ryan Wurst
Work out, pump iron, dance and frolick, but don’t make out….
United States
Sean Capone
The Suspended Earth At Large. An Orderly Complex of Stars. The Path of Totality. Patterns in a Prismatic Field. Materia Prima: The Matter of All Forms. Dissolved Refuse. Permanent Water. A Spiritual Blood. Forms In The Realm of Space. A System of Suspended Imminence. Light Curve W...
John Butler
A technological fairy tale set within an experimental Business Model. The Dependency Loop is a 'Cool Million' for the LinkedIn generation, where an experimental subject's mind is constantly harried by positivist messaging, while his body is mercilessly leveraged as a bio-manufactur...
Eli Ayres
A whimsical take on the stargate sequence from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
United States
Emily Sasmor
A STRANGER chops up COWBOY in the woods.
United States
Seishi Irimajiri
"Once there was no border line on the earth."
BORDERLINE tells the story of a boy who creates borders on Earth, however these borders start moving without his consent, which fills him with rage.
A boy was writing a score. Eventually one of the lines became a circle, many ...
Raquel Meyers
"A collaboration between Raquel Meyers and the musician Ceephax Acid Crew for his album 'Charismatic Integrity Slam' album (2015). The screen is the canvas, use as rectilinear grid on which one keystroke at a time build the animation. Or as Meyers called it, KYBDslöjd. That means...
Alan Warburton
Soft Crash is a visual meditation on the financial collapse of 2008 and the subsequent public bank bailouts, austerity economics and recent trend towards nationalist isolationism. It's a visual rendering of a neoliberalist endgame, where wealth and power are trapped in a closed ...
Kendra Fleischman
"Abstract digital art piece combining live footage of ballet dancer with animated optical illusions using lines."
United States
Birch Cooper
"Video art piece constructed with computer generated sculpture and sound."
United States