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"A woman walks her dog in the park, where she meets a man she would have liked to avoid" is a synopsis of a short film by Sonja Rohleder. Is it enough to tell a story?

Sonja Rohleder is a German director of animated films who is working on both personal projects and innovative commissioned work. She is a member of a small Berlin based collective of animators and sound designers called Talking Animals making all types of animated films - from artistic 3Ds to analogue stop motion pieces. The studio's clients include names such as Warner Music, Universal Music, ZDF, Deutsche Bahn or Audi. 

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When the statues of Paris become one with ballet dancers, the viewer can enjoy a moment of absolute beauty. 

French film director Valverde is an author of several short films with a special focus on fashion films, commercials and music videos. Whatever genre is he choosing, there is a personal style we can notice across his work: he is aiming to capture the virtuosity of the moment and often chooses to express this in slow motion. His vision includes both directing actors, screenwriting, editing and music composition. As he notes, cinema is his way of expressing himself.

Statures of Gods is a cinematic visual poem starring dancers Victoria Dauberville, Thomas Docquir and Paul Marque from the Opera National de Paris. The film is an exploration of art and movement: both the sculpted one and the one expressed through dance.

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An artistic film can be a great reminder of the moments we leave behind without noticing: the simple things, time spent in nature or the freedom of the open road. Vitùc is a visual storyteller and filmmaker based between Luxembourg and Italy, who doesn't want to limit himself to one type of media or style.

If I were a painter, I would probably work with a simple paintbrush. Well, I am a poet so I use a pen. A pen that ranges from DSLR, GoPro to, sometimes, iPhone. Images are my words. Short films are my favourite genre.

Vitùc wanted to create something ever since he was a boy: he drew, invented, experimented. His work can be described as playful, minimalist or experimental, with poetic scenes and shallow depth of field. According to him, creativity is endless and everything is possible.

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Desolate landscapes, glaciers, waterfalls, black beaches, the Northern Lights... Iceland is a fascinating travel destination most of us would like to visit. This island called also the 'land of fire and ice' is unique in many ways. To list some examples, there are no forests on Iceland; glaciers are responsible for carving out everything in Iceland that hasn't been shaped by magma and earthquakes, and a majority of Icelanders believe in the existence of elves.

Whether you are planning your trip or just would like to admire the out of this world sceneries of this country, see this video by Henry Jun Wah Lee, a videographer and physician of Chinese medicine who took up photography as a way to reconnect with the natural world and recall the feeling when there is nothing between us and the stars in the wilderness.

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How much do you know about Kyrgyzstan?

Located in the Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country with mountainous terrain. It's farther from the sea than any other individual country in the world. The mountains of Tian Shan cover over 80 percent of the country, which is what gave Kyrgyzstan the nickname "Switzerland of Central Asia".

Kyrgyzstan is also the home of the second largest mountain lake in the world - Issyk-Kol lake, which translates to "warm lake" in the Kyrgyz language. The lake never freezes despite being surrounded by snowy mountain peaks.

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When someone mentions a skate video, the first thing that comes to mind is a compilation of skaters doing crazy tricks, falling down and getting back up to try again. It's what most of skate videos are after all because it's usually amateurs who are filming them for the sake of the tricks. These days it seems that more and more visual artists have found a big source of inspiration in the skating scene and they're looking to create fresh stories out the rides and tricks.

Such is the case of the Berlin-based visual artist and the creative director at FLVR series, a skateboarding brand and art collective based in Berlin, Youri Fernandez. Together with FLVR and Nowness, he created a mesmerizing monochromatic skate video titled Skater's Paradise: ON/OFF.

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Do you ever wonder how many times your face appeared in strangers' photos from all around the world? We are in contact with masses of people every day, but we never meet all of them, we never see all of them. But at one point in time, we are at the same place at the same time, breathing the same air and admiring the same views. How strange is it that we're so aware of our surroundings but so unaware of the people surrounding us.

Julien Vallée and Eve Duhamel make the Vallée Duhamel duo, known for their "high class lo-fi" work profile. Based in Montreal, Vallée Duhamel specializes in both images and videos and 'playful and experimental approach toward work'.

After collaborating for seven years, in 2008 they decided to team up and launch a studio:

We started to create animated and video projects, and they eventually became the main request from clients and agencies. After a couple of years developing these lo-fi, handcrafted films, we were able to build a team [and]…it didn’t make sense any more to be co-directors.

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Martin Heck is a time-lapse artist and cinematographer based in Southern Germany. He started making time-lapse films in 2009 with a basic point-and-shoot camera. Soon enough he realized he's not going to get far with the time-lapses unless he uses better technology, so Martin bought himself a DSLR, but never stopped searching for better and more effective ways to show beautiful landscapes on video.

With growing expectations to quality and composition motion-control gear became quickly a main focus of my work. I started developing and building sliders and jibs to create more dynamic shots than it was possible before.

Tech is always a driving factor behind my work. With sensor-technology quickly evolving, new lens-designs and new post-production techniques I currently specialize in ultra high-resolution visuals in 4K and 8K resolution.

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Hello, old friend. It's good to see you again. I've missed our adventures that grow without end.

We've all at some point in our life experienced the pleasure of returning to an old hobby that made us so happy once. It's like rediscovering yourself again, remembering the person you used to be and choosing to keep and cherish the pieces you liked.

This is the feeling DreamRide 2 evokes. It makes you want to get up, get on your bike and go riding, or give that old hobby of yours another go.

In the video, sponsored by Diamondback Bicycles, produced by Juicy Studios, Mike Hopkins, a professional freeride mountain biker from Rossland, British Columbia takes us on an adventure that doesn't seem to have an end.

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Liesel Kershoff is a South African landscape and time-lapse photographer. She's based in Caledon, in the Western Cape in South Africa. When she was a child she used to walk down to the Bath River and enjoyed sunsets with her cat and her dog.

I have always had a close relationship with nature and was certain that I would become a wildlife photographer one day.  

After graduating from high school, she decided to travel the world. At one point, she worked at a flower farm in Israel and keept travelling and in her spare time. After a while on the road, she decided to start a fruit and vegetable shop with her sister back home.

It wasn't until her husband bought her her first SLR camera (film) that she decided she wants to be a photographer. She enrolled in a home course and found her calling.

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