Stash: Best of 2016

65 minutes
Stash: Best of 2016

Gems from Stash’s online archive (stashmedia.tv), one with the best of commissioned films of 2016 and a theme programme featuring a wide range of VFX.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2017

Showing in this program

AICP: Sponsor Reel 2016

AICP: Sponsor Reel 2016

  • Rupert Burton
  • United States, 2016
  • 2 min.

Titles with motion-capture dancers of different feathers, to music by Major Lazer, Light It Up (remix).

Am I in Your Mind…

Am I in Your Mind…

  • Yeung Hey Chiu
  • China, 2016

TV commercial as a personal project. A love story between two students at a Hong Kong high school.

Atlas Reactor: The Case

Atlas Reactor: The Case

  • Jeff Fowler
  • United States, 2016
  • 2 min.

Game trailer for Trion Worlds' team tactics game, featuring a psychotic, futuristic robot dog and a roid-raging wolf bear.

Audi T-Rex: The Comeback

Audi T-Rex: The Comeback

  • Stephan Wever
  • Germany, 2016

A T-Rex tells his life story. He grows ever more depressed.

Audi: Duel

Audi: Duel

  • Ringan Ledwidge
  • United States, 2016

TV commercial with reverse storytelling. Beautiful things are worth fighting for. 

AVA V2

AVA V2

  • Ferdi Alici
  • Turkey, 2016
  • 3 min.

Particle physics scientific installation for a 360 degree hemisphere, which reflects the changing image of powder characterization using particle size analysis and cosmic rays.

Bananas

Bananas

  • Elias Freiberger
  • United Kingdom, 2016

Short film about the surreality within the modern world. 

Bridgespan: Narrowing the Crowd

Bridgespan: Narrowing the Crowd

  • Buck
  • Australia, 2016

Commercial voor Bridgespan, a new kind of health insurance.

Channel 4: We’re the Superhumans

Channel 4: We’re the Superhumans

  • Dougal Wilson
  • United Kingdom, 2016
  • 3 min.

TV commercial, part of the overall Channel 4 Paralympics campaign.

Chipotle: A Love Story

Chipotle: A Love Story

  • Sachka Unseld
  • United Kingdom, 2016
  • 4 min.

Brand film about the history of advertising: how advertising changed the food. From the 1960s to present day, from something child-like and playful to something corporate, shiny and aggressive. At the end of the story Evie and Ivan's corporate identities merge into a mature and conscientious brand and make delicious food together. 

Cinema4D: Versus

Cinema4D: Versus

  • ManvsMachine
  • United Kingdom, 2016

Brand film for the new release of Cinema4D R18, also made with this software. A battle between lifelike creatures.

Coldplay: Up & Up

Coldplay: Up & Up

  • Vania Heymann / Gal Muggia
  • United Kingdom, 2016
  • 4 min.

Colourful music video that matches the optimism of the lyrics.

Einaudi: ABC

Einaudi: ABC

  • Alan Warburton
  • United Kingdom, 2016
  • 3 min.

Music video, with references to the work of Gustav Vigeland.

Guinness Africa Special: Alive Inside

Guinness Africa Special: Alive Inside

  • Kibwe Tavares
  • United Kingdom, 2016

Vibrant TV commercial with the new Guinness Africa artwork.

Hanwha Life Insurance: Repeat

Hanwha Life Insurance: Repeat

  • superfiction
  • South Korea, 2016

Brand film for a life insurance company, shows the exhausting lives of modern people.

Hornbach: You’re Alive. Do You Remember?

Hornbach: You’re Alive. Do You Remember?

  • Tom Noakes
  • Germany, 2016

TV commercial. A naked man rolls down a hill of grass, wood and stones. He clearly enjoys it. 

Interface: The Unlikely Hero

Interface: The Unlikely Hero

  • Guilherme Marcondes
  • Brazil, 2016
  • 2 min.

People in the village live with gas masks under a blanket of pollution. 

International Guoshu Association: Kung Fu Motion Visualization

International Guoshu Association: Kung Fu Motion Visualization

  • Tobias Gremmler
  • Germany, 2016
  • 4 min.

Short film inspired by the dynamics of motion and philosophy of Kung Fu.

John Lewis: Buster The Boxer

John Lewis: Buster The Boxer

  • Dougal Wilson
  • United Kingdom, 2016
  • 2 min.

Touching Christmas movie. A father struggles to set up the trampoline in the garden for his daughter. 

Nike: Lunarepic Flyknit

Nike: Lunarepic Flyknit

  • Chris Bahry / Tom Crate
  • Denmark, 2016

Brand film to promote the release of a new type of running shoe.

Pedigree: 14 Years

Pedigree: 14 Years

  • Squarehead
  • Brazil, 2016

TV commercial that explains why dogs are the way they are.

Radio Flyer: Taking Flight

Radio Flyer: Taking Flight

  • Brandon Oldenburg
  • United States, 2016
  • 5 min.

An estranged grandfather takes care of his grandson for the day. 

River Otter Ecology Project: As the River Flows

River Otter Ecology Project: As the River Flows

  • Jerry van de Beek / Betsy de Fries
  • United States, 2016
  • 2 min.

Short film about the protection of river otters. The River Otter Ecology Project tries to educate and work with government and corporations to protect the little creatures from the ever increasing threat of human presence. 

Road To Rio: I Am Team GB

Road To Rio: I Am Team GB

  • Art & Graft
  • United Kingdom, 2016

TV commercial that captures the true celebratory spirit and humanity of the Olympic Games. 

The Junebugs

The Junebugs

  • Chris Kelly
  • United States, 2016

Short film based on a poem from Steve Scafidi's 'To the Bramble and the Briar' - a book of poems that blends the history and myth surrounding Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. Narration: David Purdham.

Tom Clancy’s The Division: Yesterday

Tom Clancy’s The Division: Yesterday

  • Unit Image
  • France, 2016

Gametrailer. Yesterday, we were ordinary citizens.

Turner Broadcasting System: Boing Refresh 2016

Turner Broadcasting System: Boing Refresh 2016

  • Sergio Saleh / Federico Dams
  • Brazil, 2016

Broadcast design to make the branding more modern, cool and aspirational.

Vinyl

Vinyl

  • Imaginary Forces
  • United States, 2016

Title for the HBO series, inspired by the 1970s New York City nightclub atmosphere.

Westworld

Westworld

  • Patrick Clair
  • United States, 2016

Main title for the epic HBO story, a poetic combination of the Wild West and science fiction robotics.

Woolmark Company: The Innovator

Woolmark Company: The Innovator

  • Buck
  • Australia, 2016

Brand film that aims to remind the audience of wool's versatility.