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"Algorithm Takedown" (2023, 4 min). Premiered at Cannes World Festival 2023 and was qualified for the Academy Award - it got to the Oscar Long List as reported by the Animation Magazine. Animation by Alex Budovsky. Executive Producer Anna Kepe-Haas. Executive Producer and Hip Hop Timpanist Jonathan Haas with the NYU Hip Hop Orcastra. Music by Lenny White. Rap and Lyrics by Walter West. "Algorithm Takedown" is an animated music video that is commissioned by Music Professor of Percussion Studies Jonathan Haas who teaches at New York University and is based on the music written by legendary drummer Lenny White, who recorded with Miles Davis and Chick Corea. In perfect synchronization animation follows and underlines the lyrics written and performed by rapper Walter West. Nominated for "Best Music Video" and "Best Song" Awards at Cannes World Film Festival 2023, and for "Best animation" at Vegas Shorts Film Festival. Awards: "Best Song" Award at Cannes World Film Festival 2023, "Best animation" and "Best music score short film" at Kiez Berlin Film Festival 2023. Official selection: Vegas Shorts Film Festival, Tokyo International Cinema Awards, Feedback Animation Film and Screenplay Festival, Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival, Los Angeles International Music Video Festival, Courant 3D Film Festival (Angoulême, France), Miami Shorts Film Festival, Prague Music Video Awards, Rome World Cinema Fest.

"Bathwell in Clerkentime" completes the animated trilogy about cuckoos from Clerkenwell going nuts. If in the first classic episode called "Bathtime in Clerkenwell" (2002) they took over London, in the second episode, award winning "Last time in Clerkenwell" (2007) birds invaded the entire planet, in the third and final episode they face middle age crisis, problems with marriage, raising kids and alcohol addiction. Premiered at Tribeca International Film Festival 2020 (New York) and was nominated for an award in "Best animation short" category. Nominated for the National Award Ikarus (Russia). Awards: Best animated music film at Golden Kuker International Film Festival (Sofia). Short of the year 2020, autumn edition. Best animation at London International Film Festival of World Cinema (2021). Official Selection at: Anifilm 2020 (Czech Republic), IFF 2020 (IsoFilm Festival), Krok International Animation Festival 2020, Leeds International Film Festival 2020, Big Festival of Animation in Moscow (2020), London International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema 2021, ReAnimania International Film&Comics Art Festival (Erevan, Armenia) (2021), Festival of animation in Suzdal (Russia), Chicago critics Film Festival 2021.

Official animated music video for the song "Fireworks like flowers" by the band "Yauza". Lyrics by Mikhail Gendelev, music by Arsen Revasov, animation by Alex Budovsky. Official selection at Big Animation Film Festival in Moscow (2020). Awards: diploma from the jury of Suzdal festival of animation (2021) "For the return to Leningrad of our childhood".