David O'Reilly is an Irish film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

 based in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California, USA. He is known for creating animated short films with a stripped down aesthetic.

Work

Aside from a 1-minute film entitled Ident from which he draws his logo, the earliest work available on his website is WOFL2106. This short draws equally on original designs and popular internet meme

Internet meme

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s, such as Brian Peppers, to create a disturbing landscape of serenity juxtaposed with chaos. This film sets the tone for his entire ouvre, though the direct inclusion of outside memes disappears in his later work.

His short film, Please Say Something, was awarded the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival, Best Narrative Short at the 2009 Ottawa International Animation Festival and several other awards.

He created several animation sequences and props for the 2007 film Son of Rambow

Son of Rambow

Son of Rambow is a 2008 comedy-drama film written and directed by Garth Jennings. The film premiered January 22, 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Glasgow Film...

. As well as animation for the "guide" sequences in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with Shynola

Shynola

Shynola is the collective name of a group of, then, four visual artistsbased in London who have collaborated on a variety of projects,most notably a number of acclaimed music videos for several pioneering artists....

.

He created the first video for Irish rock band U2

U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

's single "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight

I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight

"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" is the fifth song from U2's 2009 album No Line on the Horizon. The song was released as the album's third single in a digital format on 25 August 2009 and in a physical version released on 7 September 2009...

." The video was released on U2.com on July 21, 2009.

His latest short film, The External World, premiered at the 67th Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...

 and the 2011 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

, and has since won over twenty awards on its festival circuit.

Octocat Adventure

On March 13, 2008, a YouTube user named RANDYPETERS1, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, submitted a handdrawn animated video about Octocat, a red cat head with eight long legs looking for his parents. The videos featured crude MS Paint animation and a loud, highpitched, child-like voice narrating. On September 7, the fifth, final episode was released, but featured an unexpected twist - about 20 seconds into it, the crude sketchy animation switched to intricately crafted 3D with an orchestral soundtrack; the whole Octocat story (and as such, the Randy Peters persona) was revealed to be by David O'Reilly . In an interview he joked "I wanted to try experimenting with the Youtube audience and Microsoft Paint. The story for Octocat came to me by reading the bible word-for-word backwards".

Short films

• The External World (2010, 15 min)
• Please Say Something (2009, 10 min)
• Octocat Adventure (2008, 6 min)
• Serial Entoptics (2008, 10 min)
• RGBXYZ (2007, 12 min)
• Wofl2106 (2006, 4 min)

Music videos

• Szamar Madar (Venetian Snares, 2005, 4 min)
• I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (U2, 2009, 4 min)

External links

• David O'Reilly's Website featuring clips of his work.