"Rubik's Cube" is a collection of three short films from Ecran Studio in 1985. The text in the beginning suggests that this was meant to become an ongoing project, but this was the only one that was ever completed. However, the idea is very similar to the five "Lift" films that were made by Pilot Studio at the end of the 1980s. In fact, I was ( Read more... )

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Pilot Studio, the Soviet Union's first private animation studio, was founded by Aleksandr Tatarskiy and Igor Kovalyov 20 years ago. Tatarskiy led the studio through some very difficult times, keeping it alive and thriving at great cost to his own health, until his death last summer (see here), while Kovalyov moved to America in the early 1990s and ( Read more... )