Evan Seitz creates excellent animations with minimalist flair. His work is hypnotizing both because the images seem to blossom from the middle of the screen – constantly attacking the viewer – and because they’re playfully cool.
In the case of his movie-centric videos, they’re an aggravating quiz of iconography that only stays on screen a nanosecond shorter than it often needs to. In other words, he makes the kind of videos that are entertaining even when frustrating.
They always have a theme (colors, locations) which help with guessing the movie titles, but they’re never as easy as they might seem at first. How many movies can you name?