Triggerfinger gave us permission to use one of their best songs on their latest album (What Grabs Ya?) to support our showreel. The combination is quite explosive.

So set the video to fullscreen, turn your volume to 'ARE YOU MAD!' and get blown away.

Studio Smack had the honour to make the official trailer for this year's International Film Festival Breda.

The second International Film Festival Breda (IFFB) takes place from the 24th until the 28th of March 2010. The focus of the festival is cinema and its influence on current visual culture, with links between film, internet, photography, performance and gaming.

For more info check www.filmfestivalbreda.com

Graphic Design Festival Breda (GDFB) celebrates graphic diversity through exhibitions, workshops and lectures in the city of Breda. Design spreads and evolves, crossing boundaries between disciplines. The trailer focuses on the omnipresence of such an element of design.

Best Local Award - Playgrounds Audio Visual Arts Festival 2008

Nominee Jury Prize - Dutch Design Awards 2008

Documentary on the infamous members of Studio Smack by well-respected filmmaker and friend John Grierson. Narrated by Graham Alexander.

Part 1 - Ton Meijdam.

Click here for Part 2 - Thom Snels

We live in a time where everything or everyone can be upgraded or ‘pimped'. After the worldwide acceptance of plastic surgery, it was time to subject our worldly possessions (Pimp my Ride) and digital identities (Facebook) to an esthetical and/or functional upgrade. So it's likely that eventually everything will be pimp-able. Even our own planet.

Studio Smack presents ‘PIMP MY PLANET". A short animated film and game trailer in which the possibilities of playing God are explored. Redesigning the planet according to your ideals or aesthetic values. What are the consequences of your actions?

This brand new work was recently part of an exhibition called ‘HIER&DAAR'. At the invitation of art institutes MU and KOP, 20 promising artists and designers from Breda and Eindhoven, all born after 1970, show new work in two groups both in Eindhoven and in Breda. 

The exhibition ran from 25/06/2009 until 23/08/2009.

Chickens interact in incredibly defined manners and form complicated social structures. Contrary to popular believe, Scientific research at the University of Sidney pointed out that chickens living in a battery cage are happier. Their free range sisters suffer from more stress, constantly living in fear of predators.

Nominee Playgrounds Award Best Local - Playgrounds 2009 

Nominee NPS Early Bird Short Film Award - IFFB 2009

Award-winning Typo-Animation that gives you a clear impression of the enormous amount of visual stimuli that plague us every day. Due to the immense scale of the visual bombardment, the commercial effectiveness has become utterly dubious. 

1st prize SAM Awards - Keying into the Brain Festival 2006

Breaking out of the Frame Award - Amsterdam Film Experience 2006

Golden Egg Award - Film Front Festival Gorinchem 2007

Special Jury Mention - Hull International Short Film Festival 2006

Special Jury Mention - Independent Exposure 2008

Nominee Juryprize - Nederlands Online Film Festival 2006

Common knowledge is too often based on assumption. In the VARA television program Is dat eigenlijk wel zo? (roughly translating as O, really?) this process is up for review.

The behaviour of individuals on a microscopical scale, naturally interacting and organizing themselves. By forming a social structure, they rise above the sum of all. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough (without him knowing, though).

Camera systems have been programmed to predict human behaviour and recognize the risk potential of individuals. Forget artificial intelligence, this is artificial judgment, and its for your own security.

Trivia: A year after production, the protagonist returned to the shooting location and was questioned by security. Why? Because he came across as suspicious on the surveillance cams.  

Special Mention - HAFFtube 2008 

In a 20 episode television special named De Toekomst (The Future), broadcaster VPRO documented worlds 25 years ahead. Scenarios ranging from pitch-black darkness to nothing but sunshine were carefully laid out. The leader is inspired by the book 'Megatrends in Nederland' by Adjiedj Bakas.

Money, politics, show-biz, gambling, hamburgers, White House, entertainment, stars, stripes. A deconstruction of the American dream.

When you buy a pair of sneakers, where does your money go? Lets take this icon of modern culture apart at the seams and find out.

Short film commissioned by Mundial Productions, screened at Festival Mundial 2008. Concept of the film is based on Millenium Goal #8.

Nominee Jury Prize - Milieudefensie Filmcompetition 2009

Television: don't you just love/hate it? This is a series of short animations, each portraying an aspect of one of the most dominant and demanding media.

Best in Show Award - Created By U Festival 2006/Direct TV/US National Television

A perpetual mobile creating life to sustain itself.

We all know that every man wants to be a sailer. Forever traveling, stacking adventure on adventure. Kapitein Reetneus and his crew live their dream. In this series we follow their epic quest for an island that does not exist. Made in cooperation with JensenFrisbee productions, featuring the voices of Michiel Romeyn and Peer Mascini.

Check www.kapiteinreetneus.nl for more info

A tribute to French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine and their turbulent friendship. Arthur RImbaud is considered to be the founding father of symbolism and decadism.

Check www.letitrain.nl for more info