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Review of the Year 2016: Top 25 Moving Image

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Date: 21 December 2016
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The possibilities are truly endless when it comes to moving image and lucky for us, we saw a cavalcade of wonderful creations this year. With documentaries of compelling stories, entertaining music videos, amusing adverts and ingenious animations – this is what caught your eye this year.

Jamie xx and Romain Gavras release dystopian music video for Gosh

1 July 2016

Benedict Redgrove’s beautifully hypnotic film about how a tennis ball is created

18 July 2016

Tommy Cash subverts the tropes of rap videos with a fleshy celebration of the human body (NSFW)

22 July 2016

PETA’s x-rated Super Bowl advert banned from TV (NSFW)

28 January 2016

Philip Coppola spends nearly 40 years illustrating New York City’s Subway Stations

21 April 2016

LA studio Laundry creates amazing warped Simpsons idents for American channel FX

25 April 2016

Animator Ori Toor’s captivating series of looping, lo-fi gifs

17 October 2016

McBess releases first 2D animation, a 1920s-style cartoon with sinister undertones

8 June 2016

“We’re celebrating ability beyond disability”: Channel 4 releases its ad for the Rio Paralympic Games 2016

14 July 2016

Chen Winner animates the musings of David Lynch and Charles Bukowski in this short film

29 February 2016

Jimmy Turrell on his surrealist animated collage video for new Beck single, Wow

3 June 2016

Stephen Fry's guide to British etiquette welcomes people into the UK

7 January 2016

PES creates an epic scale, long-exposure stop motion film for Honda

4 August 2016

McCann London creates new Cup a Soup advert starring Joey Essex

29 February 2016

Nicolas Ménard’s animation for Ray-Ban oozes kaleidoscopic cool

12 January 2016

Fantastically bold new work from animator and illustrator Jack Sachs

10 March 2016

Geriko's sweeping cinematic animation for Lorn

20 September 2016

Bananas get anthropomorphised in Julian Frost’s brilliant animation

20 September 2016

Becky and Joe direct Nursery Rhymes Inc. for St John’s Ambulance

20 January 2016

Adidas’ punchy new ad tells us to ignore the noise and the blah blah blah

2 August 2016

John Cleese stars in new Specsavers ad as Basil Fawlty

5 January 2016

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