Well, my school's on its mid-term break at the moment, so we won't be indulging in any festivities here on the day itself, but.... I shared this trio of creepy short animations with my English classes just before we broke up for the holiday last week.
The first is Alma, by Rodrigo Blaas - just recommended to me by a couple of young colleagues who teach Spanish. (Alma is evidently the name of the little girl protagonist [well, it's a cutely androgynous character; I had thought it was meant to be a boy!], but also - and significantly, I suspect - the Spanish word for 'soul'.)
That reminded me of Paul Berry's 1991 classic The Sandman, (inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann's story Der Sandmann).
And finally, I couldn't resist adding this early project from animator Dony Permedi (whose Kiwi attracted a lot of attention on the Internet a few years ago) - Pony, one of most truly disturbing comedy shorts I've ever seen. Mr Permedi has a very dark sense of humour - much in keeping with my own!
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