“Algorithm Takedown” is an animated music video that is commissioned by Music Professor of Percussion Studies Jonathan Haas 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.

Selections

Official selection:
Academy Award qualifying “Bogoshorts” Film Festival
Academy Award qualifying American Doc And Animation Film Festival
Filmets Badalona Film Festival
Vegas Shorts Film Festival.
Tokyo International Cinema Awards.
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
Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival
Best Short Film Award 2022/23 Summer edition
Budapest Movie Awards
Montreal Independent Film Festival
Oxfrod Film Festival



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Awards:
1.“Best Song” Award at Cannes World Film Festival 2023.
2.“Best Animation” at Kiez Berlin Film Festival 2023.
3. “Best Music Score Short Film” at Kiez Berlin Film Festival 2023.
4.“Best Experimental Animation” at Berlin International Art Film Festival 2023
5.“Best Music Video” at Feedback Animation Film & Screenplay Festival 2023.
6.Winner of Round The Globe Film and Music Film Festival 2023
7.“Best music in short” Award at Hong Kong Indie Film Festival 2023
8.“Best Music Video” at Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival 2023
9.“Best Animation” at Toronto Indie Shorts Film Festival
10.“Best Composer” at Arthouse Festival Of Beverly Hills.
11.“Best Music Video” at Vancouver International Movie Awards.
12.“Best Music Video” at Detroit Independent Film Festival
13.“Best Music Video” at Hamburg Indie Fest
14.“Best Animation” at Hollywood Discovery Awards
15.“Best International Animation” at Sydney Indie Shorts Film Festival
16.“Best Music Video” at Rotterdam Independent Film Festival
17. “Best Music Score” at Berlin Shorts Award
18.“Best Animation Short” at Palermo International Film Festival
19. “Best Music Video” at Miami Short Film Festival
20.“Director’s Choice Award” at Thomas Edison Film Festival (TIFF)
21.“Best Music Video” at Dublin Movie Awards

Alex Budovsky

2002 - present: Animator, producer and director of award winning animated music videos, educational animations for children, independent shorts and commercial ads. Independent short films received awards on many festivals around the world, including Sundance, Tribeca, Florida Film Festival and so on. Born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, in 1975, moved to New York in 1994. Graduated from Brooklyn College in 2000, began career in animation in 2002. Terminally Ambivalent Over You (2002) Bathtime in Clerkenwell (2002) Return I Will To Old Brazil (2005) Jukebox (2006) Last Time in Clerkenwell (2007) The Royal Nightmare (2008) Flagged (2009) Middle Class Hell (2010) Sightings and Sightseeings (2012) Choo-Choo (2014) Brooklyn Breeze (2017) Bathwell in Clerkentime (2019) Fireworks Like Flowers (2020) Algorithm Takedown (2023)